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winter · 09-18-2006, 03:27 AM

Hi guys,

But windows defender and ad aware says theres no spyware on my pc.

How do i make the warning icon go away? Is it really a spyware warning?

:( And i just got this laptop. Would suck if it got infected so early after i just got it :(

Plz help. Total noob when it comes to spyware/malware

Thank you
PS: A warnin balloon keeps popping up telling me to "Click this balloon to download latest anti spyware" and there is also a new bar in my IE called "Protection Bar". The bar has links to anti spywares. How do i remove
it?

Edit: I just downloaded spybot and the TeaTimer function keeps saying theres some bad program in a certain folder called StrCodec is trying to do something. I know i did not download this StrCodec. But Windows wont let me delete this folder.

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winter Registered User Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 13 OS: Windows xp media center	A warning icon says i have spyware/malware but... Hi guys, But windows defender and ad aware says theres no spyware on my pc. How do i make the warning icon go away? Is it really a spyware warning? :( And i just got this laptop. Would suck if it got infected so early after i just got it :( Plz help. Total noob when it comes to spyware/malware Thank you PS: A warnin balloon keeps popping up telling me to "Click this balloon to download latest anti spyware" and there is also a new bar in my IE called "Protection Bar". The bar has links to anti spywares. How do i remove it? Edit: I just downloaded spybot and the TeaTimer function keeps saying theres some bad program in a certain folder called StrCodec is trying to do something. I know i did not download this StrCodec. But Windows wont let me delete this folder. Last edited by winter; 09-18-2006 at 03:42 AM.