Norton 2004 detected some adveriser spyware on my computer, but can remove it - any suggestions? file names: winlink.new winshow.new threat name: Adware.Winshow
The best suggestion would be to remove Norton from your machine, but a reasonable second suggestion would be to install Adaware from Lavasoft.com. It will clean out most if not all of the advertising garbage.
go to download.com get the software ad-aware and also spybot. they should be under the most popular link. Good Luck
fyi, it's not lavasoft.com it's www.lavasoftusa.com - that will get you the right tools. also get spybot - do the updates to both of them and then run them - of course not at the same time.
Good catch! 'Fraid I downloaded it from www.lavasoft.de & just assumed the US site would be lavasoft.com At least we all agree that Adaware is the right tool for the job!
I would add one more to the list. I run these three weekly: Spybot S&D Ad Aware 6.0 and finally Spywareblaster The last one tries to inoculate your computer against a host of bad stuff before it can get downloaded. All of these have free downloads. I used them to cleanup my kids' pc from a ton of porn stuff and they worked wonders. Good luck, mark