What is MALWARE? I see that's what Golden Palace Casino is, which is one of the programs that infected my PC.
I am going to share my experience with spyware that occurred over the weekend...
It started uneventful until my "www.msn.com" homepage was mysteriously taking me to a search page. No matter what I did I couldn't get back to msn.com... My virus checker didn't pick up anything and running ad-aware picked up a couple objects. I cleaned it up and rebooted... Same problem, I was stuck on that search page. Trying to go to Google still took me to that page.... Then I was bombarded with Casino popups...From there I saw a Lycos toolbar appear on the bottom of my screen... Running ad-aware again resulted in over 350 objects!! I cleaned up the temp files, removed all the objects and rebooted... Ad-aware didn't pick up anything on reboot but when I started my browser it took me back to that search page... Then all 350 objects were back!! "Golden Palace Casino" had somehow installed itself on my PC along with "Internet Optimizer" and some other junk...
After fooling around with trying to clean it up for about 45 minutes I just got fed up, reformatted and reinstalled the previous day's backup... It only took up about 90 minutes total of my time and I still don't know what I did!!!
My ugliest spyware experience to date....
I don't know what I missed but I tried everything I could think of to solve the problem and it just wouldn't go away.. Then frustration set in....
All is well now ![]()

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