popup ads from Gain

[donald]

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I uninstalled all the GAIN* programs but I still get their popup ads. I did a
search of files and the following came up but I am afraid to extract them
because they may be part of the WIDOWS program.
gain96.dsp C:\i386\MODEM.CAB
gainwt.dsp C:\i386\MODEM.CAB
gain96.dsp C:\WINDOW\I386\MODEM.CAB
gainwt.dsp C:\WINDOW\I386\MODEM.CAB
Has anyone had a similar problem and how was it corrected?

 

[Guest]

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We have had that pesky gain....I went to the registry...did a GAIN
search...and deleted folders until no new searches displayed anything....it
worked after the reboot....this was after using the removal tool from
Symantec.
"Donald" wrote:

> I uninstalled all the GAIN* programs but I still get their popup ads. I did a
> search of files and the following came up but I am afraid to extract them
> because they may be part of the WIDOWS program.
> gain96.dsp C:\i386\MODEM.CAB
> gainwt.dsp C:\i386\MODEM.CAB
> gain96.dsp C:\WINDOW\I386\MODEM.CAB
> gainwt.dsp C:\WINDOW\I386\MODEM.CAB
> Has anyone had a similar problem and how was it corrected?
>

 

[Guest]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support (More info?)

Hi

Please try the following programs to search for any spyware that may be on
your system:

Ad-Aware - www.lavasoftusa.com
Spybot - http://www.safer-networking.org/
CWShredder - http://forum.aumha.org/downloads/cwshredder.zip
Spy Sweeper - www.webroot.com

Try SpyWareBlaster to stop intrusions:

http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html

Also see the following links:

http://aumha.org/a/parasite.htm
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm
http://www.microsoft.com/security/articles/spyware.asp

--

Will Denny
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
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"Donald" <Donald@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:91C6B6B2-78B8-4244-9316-6A8EBE83941B@microsoft.com...
>I uninstalled all the GAIN* programs but I still get their popup ads. I did
>a
> search of files and the following came up but I am afraid to extract them
> because they may be part of the WIDOWS program.
> gain96.dsp C:\i386\MODEM.CAB
> gainwt.dsp C:\i386\MODEM.CAB
> gain96.dsp C:\WINDOW\I386\MODEM.CAB
> gainwt.dsp C:\WINDOW\I386\MODEM.CAB
> Has anyone had a similar problem and how was it corrected?