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Shocked after uninstalling games

6 posts · originally from https://geek.digit.in/community/threads/shocked-after-uninstalling-games.4357/

Gaurav
Gaurav Original post #1
Jan 6, 2005 at 12:06 AM
I tried various games in the january 2005 DVD such as Ahriman's Prophecy, Bombermania,Adventures of Zak McKracken and supermario forever.
These games installed various unknown softwares :!: on my machine which appear in my system tray every time i connect to internet and my connection speed has decreased to a great extent. The software that appear in the sys tray is 'cashback', another one is 'ezstub' which runs automaticaly when windows starts :( . pls help me remove these useless softwares. What's your answer dear digit? :evil:
techno_funky
techno_funky #2
Jan 6, 2005 at 12:35 AM
Download this software
Spybot search and Destroy

use this software it will scan ur HDD for such unwanted softwares and remove them
KHUBBU
KHUBBU #3
Jan 6, 2005 at 12:40 AM
these r most probably adwares., which get installed with some applications u install without reading the license agreement. always read the license agreement, it tells u what all programs u r going to install.

Install Ad-Aware or Spybot S&D 1.3 ( find them on digit dvd/cd). run them , they will fix the problem.

Before this if u want to stop them from loading at startup, Goto RUN, type msconfig , in the startup tab uncheck the entries pertaining to these adwares.

here are some links to manually delete them through registry:
*www.cco.caltech.edu/~alex/pub/CashBack.htm
*www.iamnotageek.com/a/ezstub.exe.php


Hope this solves ur problem.

And yes one more thing, since this is a software related topic so u shud hav posted in the software section.
Gaurav
Gaurav #4
Jan 11, 2005 at 11:36 AM
Removed all the useless software that installed themselves. One thing i would like to know that if i install spybot will it run always in the background just like zonealarm or any other antivirus program to keep a check on the spyware and adwares as i am falling short of RAM. already have norton,zonealarm and various other software running in the backgrnd
techno_funky
techno_funky #5
Jan 11, 2005 at 1:21 PM
nopes never seen it eating my memory (same dilema as yours)
when using I.E though if any site tries to install any software it efficiently
blocks it
is a lovely SW
:D
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allindrome #6
Jan 11, 2005 at 9:59 PM
Even Ad-aware Pro has the Ad-watch utility which gives real time monitoring.