- Jul 29, 2004
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She has recently somehow downloaded something called spyshredder and it says that she has some sort of virus/spyware on her computer. It shows up when she turns her computer on and when she cancels the load process of XPupdater.exe with a location of C:/windows.
Now the Spyshredder is apparently one of those trial versions of the real program which you have to pay for online... we have tried the add/remove solution and that didnt work, also did a search/find for spyshredder and a whole list of files came up and I am wary of deleting all of them (30 or so) because they are in important places. What/how should I do to get rid of the spyware thingy. She thinks taking it to bb/geek squad, I say some virus program like mcfee.
Moved from Software For Windows to Security.
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Now the Spyshredder is apparently one of those trial versions of the real program which you have to pay for online... we have tried the add/remove solution and that didnt work, also did a search/find for spyshredder and a whole list of files came up and I am wary of deleting all of them (30 or so) because they are in important places. What/how should I do to get rid of the spyware thingy. She thinks taking it to bb/geek squad, I say some virus program like mcfee.
Moved from Software For Windows to Security.
AnandTech Moderator
mechBgon