What is this?

[LT. Columbo]

i just noticed it. with my luck this computer will explode in my face anyway....

i never get the easy way out like all you hot shots.

[Budreaux]

update:

i noticed yesterday a folder in c/program files..."top search"

ha! nice. where did that sunnavagun come from i thought. google told me it was devilish. couldn't delete it, but it had an uninstaller in it. that worked. since then explorer has not tripped and no net disconnects. explorer would have crashed 20-30 times by now. none of my spyware scanning crap picked it up. might be on to something....

If you have an issue like this and your spyware/adware doesn;t detect or eliminate it, do a search for "Hijackthis".. it;s a simple .exe program that sits on your desktop.... it'll bring up all kinds of interesting files on your computer... once you;ve found the culprit, you just lock it up, it won't be deleted, but it won;t be able to affect your computer either. Be sure and use the b/u feature BEFORE you lock anything up though.

Budreaux

[LT. Columbo]

yeah i've heard about that program. i'm sure it would find more. so far still no explorer crashes. the first thing i did when this started happening is scan for infections, nothing detected it.

btw to ad aware se personal users: when is the last time it found updates for you? 90 days and counting here, did they stop making updates for this?

[soup]

It just updated not to long ago for me LT, but I check manually everyday. As to HiJackThis, here you go if you want to take a look.

http://www.majorgeeks.com/download3155.html.

[LT. Columbo]

thanx soup, i already have that link bookmarked

[Gary D]

AdAware updated last friday for me. Useless tool compared to trojan hunter and ewido. I had (may still have) many viruses last Friday night. I had to google the S0B to learn how to get rid of the main culprit. I will be doing a rescan tomorrow just to make sure.

Clear your internet cache and retry. If this does not work, delete and reinstall program.

[LT. Columbo]

yeah just checked 95 days and no update available. i'll uninstall and re-install and see.

[Chewy]

I may have to quarantine this subforum and fumigate

[jm1647]

btw to ad aware se personal users: when is the last time it found updates for you? 90 days and counting here, did they stop making updates for this?

Last update I got definitions were dated August 28th, and just ran it again...no update available.

[LT. Columbo]

uninstall -reinstall did it. can't understand why i had to do this though. i got aug 28.

[Gary D]

Maybe old version needed updating to newer version??

Corruption of program??

To many possibilities! But you got the latest at least!!

[Chewy]

spybot 1.3 wouldn't update for 6 months (duh), they had released 1.4

[LT. Columbo]

spybot is a first class POS IMO. i've installed it 3 times and it never finds jack. ad aware finds crap it missed - never again.

it should be called "didn't see nothin-bot"

[Chewy]

with the blended threats, even adaware is kind of useless

like anony said vigilance is the key

[LT. Columbo]

can't argue with that. i don't really surf much and just go to a few regualar places, msnbc, amazon stuff like that. i try to KISS like you said.