Hi,

Spyware detector is the software. What did it find and remove?

SearchtheWeb
FunWebProducts
RunWeb
MyWebSearch
BlackBox
Aornum
MyWebSearch Toolbar.Emailplug
My Search Bar
a better internet
AGENT.FL
180 Search Assistant
BTGrag
ADW_WEBSEARCH.B
Doubleclick
WeatherBug

It says 16 Spywares found with 1097 associated worms and 7 registry entries.

I naively quarantined them all except WeatherBug and that's when the
problems began. Well, after rebooting anyway.

I tried to restore a few but nothing really helped. Ended up restoring the
whole kit 'n kaboodle and have now quarantined a few with reboots. So far
so good but many, many left to go.

The most damaging was the loss of my email files (which have since been
found and restored) but it seemed to reset everything. I had to set up an
email account again. All my IE settings were lost and some of them I can't
figure out how to repair.

The most annoying setting is that a password screen keeps popping up after
the PC is idle for some period of time. I can't figure out how to stop it
from happening. There is no password set so all I have to do is press enter
but it would be nice to not have to do it all.

Is that more than you wanted to know PA Bear? smile! We call my husband
Papa Bear!

"PA Bear" <PABearMVP@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> What "Spyware program"? What did it find and remove?
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> OE General newsgroup:
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> ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
> MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE, Shell/User, Security), AH-VSOP
>
> smiley wrote:
>> I ran a Spyware program and managed to lose my email account. Well I got
>> it set back up but my inbox, sent, deleted, etc. files are all empty! I
>> had some notes about how to find out where they are stored...
>>
>> Tools>Options>Maintenance>Store folder will reveal the location of your
>> Outlook Express files.
>> Press the Tab key to highlight the folder location, then Ctrl+C to copy
>> it. ...and they are there but how do I tell Outlook Express to use them?
>>
>> Thank you in advance for any enlightenment!
>>
>> Kathy
>>
>> aka smiley
>>
>> In God We Trust
>