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"The Print Guy" <printdude1968@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>> <printdude1968@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>>> Thanks. I did a system restore and it brought the Change Remove
>>> buttons back. Any ideas what might have caused this? I have Norton
>>> Internet Security installed, Virus Protection and Firewall plus I use
>>> MS Anti-Spyware so if this was caused by spyware or a virus, I would
>>> love to know how it got past my safeguards.
>>>
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>> You're welcome and I am not sure how it was caused. It could have been
>> malware.
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>> Are you running these two programs as well?
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>> Adaware SE (free)
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http://www.lavasoftusa.com/support/download
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>> Spybot - search and destroy (free)
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http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html
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>> Try this web scan for malware and spyware.
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>> Trend Micro - Housecall (free)
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http://housecall.trendmicro.com
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> Ad-Aware picked up a bunch of stuff. And with Spybot (just installed)
> I've got 17 more so far. What is with people and their stupid spy/mal
> ware...
One reason is Windows is a widely used OS therefore people that write these
programs have a larger group of computers to infect. If Windows wasn't a
popular OS then I believe you wouldn't have this type of problems occurring
in a Windows based system on a large scale.
--
William