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Speaking of spy/spam/adware...
I've done a Google search and the pages I found listed steps that didn't apply to my situation.
I came home night before last and noticed that when I closed my browser a pop-up window would appear and minimize itself to the task bar, and I couldn't get it to restore to normal size to even see what the ad was for. I could right-click the task and close it.
A quick run of HijackThis found twaintec.dll installed as a Browser Helper Object and I removed it and deleted all files matching twaintec*.* from my system.
I rebooted and its back from the dead. Spybot does not pick it up on a scan and I'm hoping to avoid re-formatting my system and starting from scratch...
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Oliver,
Try AdAware ....
Also, I had a similar experience with another piece of ( I loosely call it ) " software " that kept coming back from the dead.
My brother who is a net admin found out that the program was actually reconnecting to a server and repeatedly reinstalling itself under different names each time ! The file that was causing it to reconnect was a .dll file and it took us two hours to find this out and finally get rid of it.
Best of luck & thanks for the heads up on this !
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http://computercops.biz/print-1-35261.html
and
www.twain-tech.com
We've managed to delete twaintec but now we've got another adware/trojan/virus.
I believe that any company who advertises their products/services using an adware/trojan/virus should be black-banned! Please join in the campaign starting with ebay and presciptions-r-us!!
Anyway, goodluck!
Julian
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