some taskbar called "hotbar" appeared on my computer

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anyone know anything about this? I can't seem to get rid of it.

Irish ilxors could it be an eircom thing?

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 19:08 (twenty-two years ago)

No, it's just a piece of annoying Spyware. Download Adaware and run it.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 19:11 (twenty-two years ago)

or try here Ronan

http://www.pchell.com/support/hotbar.shtml

― Kim (Kim), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 19:11 (twenty-two years ago)

There should be a golf rave Bonzi Buddy.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 19:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Thanks, that's a relief. I'll get adaware too. Appreciate the help!

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 19:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Wait, so my "sexybar" isn't a Windows function?

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 19:22 (twenty-two years ago)

I installed Adaware once and it was very useful until the day I updated it and it suddenly insisted on running in German language only. Good little program though.

― Kim (Kim), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 19:27 (twenty-two years ago)

it just removed like 350 things. Is it possible it finds stuff you want to keep? It couldn't remove one or two things but I had other applications open.

I really am so ignorant.

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 19:31 (twenty-two years ago)

If you have any programs like maybe kazaa or similar, if they are loaded up with internal spyware, it *can* disable the rest of that program to remove it - so you're sort of stuck in that situation. It should give you some kind of summary before the final delete though - so take a good look at that point.

― Kim (Kim), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 19:41 (twenty-two years ago)

I am getting mostly unsurprising (ebay, banks etc.) and very occasionally smutty pop ups at random in IE which are obviously not linked to specific pages. I have the Google pop-up stopper, I've tried adaware, hijackthis, spybot, cwshredder and none of them think there's anything dodgy going on. Sigh. Any suggestions? (I have a decent paid-for virus checker and firewall)

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 22:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Switch to the Opera browser.

― Leee O'Gaddy (Leee), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 22:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Kills ALL unwanted pop ups.

― Leee O'Gaddy (Leee), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 22:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Well co-incidentally, just over the weekend I found a bunch of weird ad related stuff, sitting in my java cache, so I cleared it out and things seem to be running smoother now. So if you have a java plug in, check out what it's got in there (via control panel - java icon - cache) and maybe disable cacheing entirely.

― Kim (Kim), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 01:23 (twenty-two years ago)

i so want there to be "eisbar" spyware!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 01:37 (twenty-two years ago)

four weeks pass...

"I am getting mostly unsurprising (ebay, banks etc.) and very occasionally smutty pop ups at random in IE which are obviously not linked to specific pages. I have the Google pop-up stopper, I've tried adaware, hijackthis, spybot, cwshredder and none of them think there's anything dodgy going on. Sigh. Any suggestions? (I have a decent paid-for virus checker and firewall)"

It's likely those are coming in through ports 135, 137, 138, 139 and 445 on your computer, so if you have a firewall, configure it to block those ports to the internet (make a rule, if it's Norton). I had a similar situation and this worked perfectly for me. They are netbios file sharing ports. You can always unblock them if it affects file sharing, but at least you will pin down where those irksome pop-up's coming from.

― Owen, Thursday, 13 May 2004 14:10 (twenty-two years ago)

I downloaded "SpywareBlaster" and it seems to have stopped all those annoying popups and cookie trackers.

― C J (C J), Thursday, 13 May 2004 17:18 (twenty-two years ago)

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