Spyware

Thanks to testing some software, I was infected with some Spyware/Adware.
The first symptom was setting all searches to go to Top Five Search.Com,
rather than Google. I found a number of SpyWare programs - and found that Hijack This was a good program to
remove some of the problems.
Running HijackThis, I looked at \"O2 - BHO\" Browser Help Objects and found
a few entries that should not belong there. Importantly there was a
reference to a program called adroar.dll. What I needed to do was to then
delete this in HijackThis.
Then I exited out of IE, and then deleted the DLL from the disk, and then
ran RegEdit. Running RegEdit I deleted ALL references to this DLL in the
registry. This fixed things
Who is Radioactive Networks?

Radioactive Networks is a consulting company with extensive
experience in mobile tracking technologies. We have used these technologies
successully in events as diverse as the Olympics, the IronMan
World Championships in Hawaii to a technology demonstration in Hollywood,
Ca. Our unique catalog of Hardware and Software allow us to provide an
economical solution to almost any business need.
Based in Sydney, Australia, Radioactive Networks have the experience
needed to complete even the most demanding mobile tracking projects.
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