I ran Spybot S & D and it found 3 threats with a total of 10 entries - 4 of AdRevolver, 1 of Statcounter, and 5 of Zedo! I checked the boxes for them to be fixed & it told me they were removed. HOWEVER, I re-ran it again and again and again - all 4 times it gave me the same results. On the 5th time, it told me NO threats were found. This makes me very uneasy - especially since my PC seems as slow as before. How can I check to be sure they're gone? And how can I positively prevent them from coming back? - this is not the first time I've seen AdRevolver and Zedo! I've GOT to pinpoint where it comes from, where I got it from, & how I can prevent it. What you don't know CAN hurt you! Nothing seems to help. And what really gets me is none of the other spyware programs I have found them - and I ran Spybot last! Please help me!

Usually you guys are pretty quick about getting back to us with your advice, etc. I can't believe no one had replied to my previous thread entitled - "Help! Spybot found 3..."

Am I not posting in the right place? Is it because of the holidays?

Please be patient, this area of our forum is restricted to only a couple of people who can answer questions as it is an area which needs great caution in troubleshooting.

Okie-dokie - at least now I know that you know I exist! I guess I'm just impatient because my "turtle" of a PC is driving me crazy! TY

I ran Spybot S & D and it found 3 threats with a total of 10 entries - 4 of AdRevolver, 1 of Statcounter, and 5 of Zedo!

You did not state whether the threats were cookie based or in what form. All effective access to such sites can be COMPLETELY blocked (included entries for all above known bad sites) by use of a 'HOSTS' file which will likely also end the reinstatement of the above items found:

A HOSTS file can block Internet access to thousands of known-bad sites by not allowing you any easy browser access to such sites knowingly or unknowingly. Use HJT to determine if a current HOSTS file exists and any contents therein:

• Run the HiJackThis tool and select ‘Open the Misc Tools section’.
• Next select ‘Open host file manager’ button.
• Use the ‘Open in Notepad’ button in XP/W2K or use WORDPAD if necessary [type wordpad.exe in the RUN box (Start>Run)] and load the FILE PATH identified in HJT.
• Go to http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.txt . # Read the initial instructions #. Copy and paste (append or replace) the RELEVANT host address entry contents of that file into Notepad or Wordpad and save the updated file contents.
  
  EXCERPT:
  #start of lines added by WinHelp2002
  # [Misc A - Z]
  127.0.0.1 phpadsnew.abac.com
  127.0.0.1 a.abnad.net
  127.0.0.1 e.abnad.net
  127.0.0.1 www.accoona.com #[Adware-Accoona][Adware.Atoolb][Panda.Accoona]
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  .
  #end of lines added by WinHelp2002