While this was discussed at length in the Security Forum, the effect is not unknown or never seen. Here's what I found. When the pests are removed, sometimes the pest leaves some damage to IE as it's parting shot.
There are tools like IEFIX or SFT /SCANNOW or ... others that help the owner recover from SPYWARE.
Let me be blunt. Adaware didn't cause the issue, the spyware did.
Bob
My new Hp laptop has been flawless until tonight. I run Ad Aware and cleaned up everything but now the download now links on Cnet no longer work. That is the only thing I can think of I have done different. The downlaod links were working for me previously. I have had spybot for awhile and didn't have any trouble. But ad aware found several more files and removed them. I am wondering what it may have done.
This is very frustrating as a similar problem happened to me on another desktop pc a long while back but I was unsure of the cause. All the Java links, such as the download now link on Cnet won't work. It just sits there and finally brings the same page back up again instead of going to the download now page.
This is a new HP Laptop,3ghz,P4, running XP home.
Any ideas, if it is the Ad then anyone know what causes this?

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