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I kept having a problem with adware showing up on my computer. I just could not figure out where it was going from. I have done 2 or 3 complete reformat and recovers lately only to find it back again. [:(!] [:(!] [:(!] When you do a reformat you lose EVERYTHING on your hard drive and have to download everything again. But I was willing to do it to get rid of the adware. The AD A WARE free program just would not get rid of it. So yesterday I did another reformat and recover. I downloaded my AOL software, then my virus scan, nothing else was downloaded. I got off line and ran the virus scan. Low and behold the Adware showed up again. Now get this. My adware problems were not caused by a visit to any website. They were caused by my own computer and its software from HP. HP's software to restore the computer's original programs contains adware. Here is what I found: ProcKill-T Hide Window ProcKill-T (again yes) ProcKill-Term These are all part of the restore disk. [:(!] [:(!] [:(!] When I found them originally I received a message that the files contain these "unwanted programs" could not be cleaned. So I deleted them. Then I ran another virus scan and found the same 4 programs with the same names in the exact same order but in different files. Again I received the message that these files could not be cleaned. So I tried to delete them and received a message that they could not be deleted because the disk is write protected. I cannot get rid of them as far as I know. Any ideas?
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