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Crackspider

Jun 2, 2006 9:42AM PDT

I have tried to no avail to get rid of crackspider. I use AOL firewall, have a firewall on my Linksys router, use Ad-aware, Spysweeper, SpyBot, WinPatrol and Secretmaker. I brought everything up-to-date, rebooted my computer in safe-mode, ran each and every program, rebooted and crackspider is still there. I'm getting frustrated.

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Removal instructions...
Jun 2, 2006 9:53AM PDT

Depending on who you ask, Favadd (CrackSpider) is either mild AdAware, a simple browser hijack, or a trojan. To remove it, follow the instructions provided by Symantec by clicking here. My only note is that you don't need NAV...where it tells you to run Norton antivirus, run which ever AV you have instead, making sure it's up-to-date first.

Hope this helps,
John

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Crackspider
Jun 9, 2006 7:14AM PDT

Tghanks very, very much. I'll have to try this!

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Crackspider
Sep 6, 2006 4:04AM PDT

John: Thank you very much.......IT'S GONE.

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Hi jim
Jun 2, 2006 9:55AM PDT
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Crackspider
Jun 9, 2006 7:13AM PDT

Well, this is the most detailed set of instructions I've gotten. Looks VERY promising. Don't have the time to do this today, but it's on my "A" list. Thank you very much!!

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(NT) (NT) Welcome,thanx for posting back
Jun 9, 2006 7:21AM PDT
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Crackspider
Sep 6, 2006 4:07AM PDT

Tom. IT'S GONE........