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ddude

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The longer I have my computer the more crap has to be scanned when spybot runs a scan.

The stuff is all clean but I would like to get rid of it - I really do not need any wwwcoolsearch or xxxdialer bots on my computer.

Could someone explain where the stuff is on my hard drive so I can look at getting rid of it. When I got the computer none of this crap was onboard.
 
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When you do a "Check for problems" are you:
  • Actually detecting problems which would be listed under "Problem" in the right hand pane of the screen?

    --- or ---

  • Are you talking about the names in the status bar in the lower left hand corner of the screen that changes continually during a scan?

If a, please provide a list of the problems you are getting:
  • Run another "Check for problems" followed by a "Fix selected problems".
  • When the scan/fix completes, right click on the results list, select "Copy results to clipboard".
  • Then paste those results to a new post in this thread.
If b, be aware that during the running of a Spybot scan ("Check for problems") the status bar in the lower left hand corner of the screen shows the following:
  • "Running bot-check(xxxxx/yyyyy:zzzzzz)" where:
    • xxxxx = Current check count.
    • yyyyy = Total check count.
    • zzzzz = Malware being checked for
  • The zzzzz value is not what is on your system it is the malware that is being scan for.
 
The stuff is all clean but I would like to get rid of it - I really do not need any wwwcoolsearch or xxxdialer bots on my computer.
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Are these things being found by Spybot,after you do a scan?They'd be listed in red.
Or are you seeing things like wwwcoolwebsearch and xxxdialer in the lower left corner when Spybot is scanning,next to running bot-check?
 
  • "Running bot-check(xxxxx/yyyyy:zzzzzz)" where:
    • xxxxx = Current check count.
    • yyyyy = Total check count.
    • zzzzz = Malware being checked for
  • The zzzzz value is not what is on your system it is the malware that is being scan for.
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case B.

So if I understand correctly, the stuff counting by in the lower left hand corner is NOT what is on my computer, but a list of the stuff spybot is searching for.

btw, my scan comes up clean - nothing in red. I was concerned that the stuff I was seeing inthe lower right hand corner was on my computer and had been de-activated but still clogged memory or something like that.
 
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