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180search Assistant is scumware[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#30)
by geo metro on Tue Dec 27, 2005 at 05:41:27 PM PDT

180search Assistant is scum ware. It has downloaded on peoples pc,s when they go to some sites. Everyone has been to sites that say you must install this software and you click off of it or choose no and it will pop right back up before you can X off the page.Ctrl Alt Delete and bring up Task Mananger to shut off inetenet explorer if you get this type of web site. Also i have worked at a pc shop and have seen many pc,s with the 180search on them and when you go to add remove programs to remove it its a pain in the butt. And all the pop ups you get with this scum ware is un real. We have a right to have our pc,s clean of scum ware like this and dialers and Trojans. I have seen programs like this slow a pc down to a crawl. Before i did not know about spyware/scumware i was hit by the 180search and did not know where it came from and a friend had me rin ad aware pro and clean it up but the bad thing about this is when u run a program like this over scum ware you are usually stuck with seeing it in add and remove programs forever. So I always go to add remove programs and remove it from there then run a spy ware cleaner afterwards. I think its sad when 180search people attack Zone Labs for warning people that this program is on there pc but maybe Zone Labs need to change the way the alerts are sent to us. Something like There is a possibility that this is spy ware and click here --- to read about the program, so it would be our choice to blow it out of our computers. I run Zone Alarm Pro and have for many years and trust it totally.

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