Wildtangent.. Really Messing Up My System.

[mogadishu]

ok thanks i got it. now i just have to set the pagefile and try and restart in safe mode.

[mogadishu]

Originally posted by balamm@29 December 2003 - 22:51
open administrative tools, it's there. local security policies.

ok i did everything u said, still got the disk noise and freeze up when i clicked on the folder or file, and an error when i tried to delete it.

[balamm]

well your off to dos then. Throw in your Xp disk and boot to repair mode. Delete it from there and if successful, run a diskcheck.

[mogadishu]

ok.. i assume i do the same with win2000?

[balamm]

Yes they are the basically same at that point.

If you can't get at it you could install a second temp OS and delete the file from there. If you have a free partition.

[mogadishu]

hmm ok, ill try and do this later. I have to locate the win2000 cd.

But thanks a lot for the help.. I have a lot less questions now thanks to you guys. Atleast I know what the real problem is etc.

Ill let you know if I can figure it out.

Oh and if anyone thinks of anything else, please post it.

Thanks.

Mogadishu.

[Nightwolf]

Originally posted by ninjamonkey@29 December 2003 - 20:55
also, check this out to try to remove it. http://www.kephyr.com/spywarescanner/libra...ent/index.phtml
and http://www.pestpatrol.com/PestInfo/W/WildTangent.asp

Thanks for that link to PestPatrol, ninjamonkey! I was searching for something to remove WildTangent from my mother-in-law's PC so I downloaded the demo from their website just to see how it is, and guess what - it found traces of WildTangent on my system! I had completely forgot about it, but many years ago I had installed one of their visualizations for Wimamp. As soon as I realized it included spyware I deleted it, and I always assumed Spybot got rid of the rest but obviously it didn't. PestPatrol also found a few other things that Spybot missed. I highly recommend this program as a supplement to Spybot and/or Adaware.

Incidentally, the free demo will only search your PC, but it won't let you delete anything. To do that you'll need the full version which you can find on eMule or Suprnova (and probably K-Lite, but I didn't search there so I don't know).

One word of caution, if you remove everything that it finds it will make both K-Lite and eMule no longer work. But that's easily remedied by simply reinstalling them.