.. Ad-Aware removed too much .. ?

[agent_c]

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.. hello helpfulls ..

.. was just hoping to find some answers .. or links to.

.. trying to fix a PC that ran Ad-Aware .. and now IE .. Outlook and Kazaa don't work .. they freeze.

.. is this becuase Ad-Aware removed some instances of cydoor and/or client.dll files .. ? I know this is a missing .dll problem.

.. was wondering how people went about fixing this .. I can't find too much info online for this specific problem.

.. thanks.

 

[~Candy~]

I would boot to a dos prompt, and type:

scanreg /restore
and press enter.......

Select the day prior to running adaware......
that'll put back whatever you deleted.

 

[IMM]

First - download and try running LSPFix www.cexx.org/lspfix.htm

Don't use Adaware (at least until the new one comes out). Use SpybotSD instead.
http://tomcoyote.com/SPYBOT/

 

[agent_c]

.. I use spybot .. but this friend ran ad-aware .. and they don't have a clue on a computer.

.. it's missing some .dll that Kazaa uses .. can I just replace this one file .. or would reinstalling kazaa work ..

.. can't get online on the problem pc.

.. spybot cleans so much more than ad-aware .. I don't understand how people can get so much crap on their machine.

.. thanks some more.

 

[IMM]

LSPFix will fit on a floppy.
Another thought might be a dummy dll - if it's appropriate to this version http://cexx.org/dummies.htm

Try to keep kazaa from trying to start and fixing any Layered Service Provider issues should get you on line tho'.

 

[Rollin' Rog]

Did they make a backup when they ran Ad-aware? If so have them do a restore. Ad-aware should not be used any more until they come out with a new version. Use Spybot instead.

 

[agent_c]

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.. I agree .. spybot is superior.

.. I doubt they made a b/u ... so I will try the aforementioned solutions.

.. so does IE .. Outlook .. and Kazaa all use the same .dll file .. ??

.. *client.dll .. ?

 

[Rogtalbot]

Originally posted by agent_c:
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.. hello helpfulls ..

.. was just hoping to find some answers .. or links to.

.. trying to fix a PC that ran Ad-Aware .. and now IE .. Outlook and Kazaa don't work .. they freeze.

.. is this becuase Ad-Aware removed some instances of cydoor and/or client.dll files .. ? I know this is a missing .dll problem.

.. was wondering how people went about fixing this .. I can't find too much info online for this specific problem.

.. thanks.

Exactly the same thing has happened to me.
One way around it is to reinstall Ad-aware, IE will now work. (I have just this minute done this) Then turn off Ad-aware and down load Spybot. Send an e mail to Ad-aware with a really snotty message that no matter how good they think there program is "HOW DARE THEY ! Request instructions to completely remove all traces of their program. You will have to remove registry entries - I'm not confident enough to do this. So I' turned the blasted thing off!

 

[Rogtalbot]

Originally posted by Rogtalbot:
This is a correction to my last post (I hope I've got it right this time):-
Exactly the same thing has happened to me when removing Zone Alarm
One way around it is to reinstall the program , IE will now work. (I have just this minute done this) Then turn off the program so it ain't running and down load Spybot. Send an e mail to Ad-aware. Request instructions to completely remove all traces of their program. You will probably have to remove registry entries - I'm not confident enough to do this. So I've turned the blasted program off (in my case Zone alarm)

 

[Corrosive]

Are you surprised that Kazaa doesn't work? Just remember that removing the spyware that comes with the program is an extremely subtle form of stealing...