? about the adaware/spyware

[gbeato70]

i ran adaware and it found 11 suspicious files, plus another 7! some i wasnt sure if i should delete? how do i decipher which ones are actually "bad"???? there were alot of ie plugin files??? i def. deleted everything havin to do with gator, but the rest i just wasnt sure?

[FrostyPhrog]

Hi
Just post a list of what you found here and maybe we can help you.

FrostyPhrog

[gbeato70]

f timesink c:\windows\flexacv.dll
f onflow c:\program files\ie\plugins\ieonflow.dll
f onlflow c:\progfiles\ie\plugins\inponflow.dll
f onflow c:\progfiles\ie\plugins\onflowplayero.dll
f onflow c:\progfiles\ie\plugins\onflowreport.exe
k onflow software\onflow
k timesink clsid\{1dc1fa5e-773d-11d3-9f9f-006097a7311b}
k timesink flexactive.flexactive
k timesink flexactive.flexactive.1
k timesink interface\{1dcfa5d-773d-9f9f-006097a7311b}
k timesink interface\{572a659c-37c9-11d4-b552-00c04f797b69}
k timesink typelib\{1dc1fa50-773d-11d3-9f9f-006097a7311b}
v web3000 stashedgmg
v timesink c:\windows\flexactv.dll
f timesink d:\my docs\ctinstall.exe
f timesink d:\my docs\simple registration.dll
f timesink d:\my docs\tsadbit.exe
f timesink d:\tsuninstaller.exe

the f timesink and f onflow have a white folder which on the help screen of adaware says a recognized spyware module located on the hd...the k & v onflow and timesinks have a green acorn in front of it which denotes a key in the registry that was created or modified by the advertising parasite.
what the hell does all this mean????? :mad: :mad:

[lufbra]

I'm sure someone else wil be able to help you better with this than me, but I will say that whenever I run the program, I always get one timesink file showing, and that is 99% of the time, the only one, so I just clean it out each time, it's never caused any problems, at least not to my knowledge!!!

Dave.

[gbeato70]

explain to me this......man computers are weird!!!!....i have re-booted my machine, ran ad-aware.....no suspicious files found....how can it go from 9 to none w/out me deleting anything?!