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How to Remove Spyware with Ad-aware 6.0 |
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Contributed by FunBard
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Wednesday, 10 September 2003 |
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I have made a small tutorial on the use of Lavasoft's Ad-aware 6.0 in the hopes it can at least help one person along the way who may be plagued with spyware or adware. This webpage is not meant to promote anything commercial but just to be used as a guide for the new user to get acquainted with the proper use of the program (updating being the most important). Well, without further explanation here it is:
Note: Be sure to close all
open programs and I would also advise to uninstall Kazaa
or other p2p programs before continuing.
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Download Ad-Aware 6.0 (free). Click here to
get to the download page and click  or "Run
from current location" when you see what is pictured to the left.
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Once the download is complete, this window will show
up. Click  until you
see the picture in the next step. |
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At this screen, click  to
complete the installation. |
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Double click the Ad-aware 6.0
shortcut icon on your desktop
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Once the program is open, click on 
This will have update Ad-aware's "reference file" which allows it to
find new spyware components. |
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Click 
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When there is a new update available you will see this, click 
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When the Webupdate completes, click 
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You will
now see this window. Click 
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A: Place
a tick in the box shown,
then click Customize.
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The picture
on the left shows the default settings for Memory and Registry.
Change the
two  's to  's.
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This
shows the new customized settings.
Click
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B: Now
we want to start the scan finally!
Click
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This
shows Ad-Aware in the middle of a scan. Turn your speakers down for the next
step! The scan will take about 5-10 minutes. |
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BZZZZ!
Hope you turned down your speakers! A little  will
now flash when the scan is complete.
Click
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Right
click the screen as shown to the left and then click on .
Verify
all the items have checkmarks.
Click
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This will confirm you want
to remove all this resource-wasting, privacy-invading spyware.
Click
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Picture to the left shows Ad-aware working it's magic
and cleaning your system. |
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If you happen to see this
picture, don't panic (and if you don't, just restart your computer).
It is basically giving you the option to have Ad-aware clean your system
at
the next reboot/restart.
Click
then restart your computer for
the changes on your system to take effect. |
Thanks goes to Schizm, Mich, FisherGirl and Fluteloop,
for making this page possible. |
