PerfectNav

AAAARGGGHHHH

Has anyone had the problem of having the perfectnav s**t on their hard drive? Has anyone found a way to get rid of it? If any has I'de be eternally gratefull as it very annoying (pop ups, broken link redirection etc) I've already tried using Ad-aware, but that didn't get rid of it. And I tried to delete the folder, but Stupid Windows woudn't let me. Any thoughts?

Load in Safe mode/DOS mode/off of a Knoppix CD and delete it by hand.

If your up for it a reformat would do the trick :biggrin:

If your up for it a reformat would do the trick:D

beats WC with a lead pipe

... No ...

Matt, Usually with Ad-Ware you have to get rid of the programs that installed it first, since those programs will continue to re-install them even after you delete them.

But, I've had a couple succeful ventures into the registry to get rid of this type of garbage and they never came back. You can usually goto Norton's site look it up and it will tell you the regitry entries and you can delete them from there. Then you'd be able to delete the folder. Also, Windows doesn't even know what the program is in all actuality, so it doesn't bring it back, whatever installed the program in the first place is. I hope this helps.

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Fixed the name .. sorry, Horn.

If adaware didn't do it, try 'spybot'.

If you know what the program is called, just search for it on google, and there will be some thread or something where it tells you how to remove it properly.

Horn, Usually with Ad-Ware you have to get rid of the programs that installed it first, since those programs will continue to re-install them even after you delete them.

That's not me. Hence the name "Matt".

CTRL+ALT+DELETE things that might be keeping it open, too- the spyware will probably be running in the background anyway and will thus prevent you from deleting it...

Programs can decide not to appear in the task listing. If it's a spyware program, it's probably doing this.

I thought they all appear in the "Processes" listing in XP, irrespective of whether they want to or not :/

I thought they all appear in the "Processes" listing in XP, irrespective of whether they want to or not :/

Only if they're in the registry I believe. And yes, many programs can be ran without registry entries. However, most of them run through dos and that creates an entry, so if they go around that I would imagine so. I mean, if you have a Virus running on your computer, it doesn't show up in the registry (except PINF, that bastard)

A while back i was cleaning up a blokes PC and he had this and several other adware/spyware programs on the system. Most of this crud can be removed without a reformat or reinstalling Windows.

To remove it first backup the registry and then follow these instructions - http://www.pestpatrol.com/msperfectnavsupport.asp

The registry editor can be started from Start, Run and typing in regedit.

A useful utility is "HiJack This" which finds browser hijacking software -
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/files/hijackthis.zip
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/index.html

Crono said:

I thought they all appear in the "Processes" listing in XP, irrespective of whether they want to or not :/

Only if they're in the registry I believe. And yes, many programs can be ran without registry entries. However, most of them run through dos and that creates an entry, so if they go around that I would imagine so. I mean, if you have a Virus running on your computer, it doesn't show up in the registry (except PINF, that bastard)

WinXP systems don't have DOS, so any program running on a PC with WinXP is doing it through WinXP.

WinXP systems don't have DOS, so any program running on a PC with WinXP is doing it through WinXP.

Yes there is, the command prompt is still dos even though it isn't what's running your system, it still has it's own interface.

Maybe Windows isn't ran through dos, but other things are automatically ran through dos unless you set some weird thing up when making a win32 application (and in that case the program runs through Windows)

In other words, DOS is the default running environment unless stated to be Windows (this is how you get errors that say "not a valid win32 application).

Well I'm pretty sure (can't remember who I heard it off) that WinXP replaces DOS, hence you have the DOS prompt (just for familiarities sake). Ever tried starting your PC in DOS when you have WinXP?

Myrk, that's still dos.
Its just not set up as the operating system, hence no direct booting (But I believe there is a way to do it without a startup disk).

You haven't been able to do that (explicitly) since Windows 98 because they removed DOS as the platform for the Operating System. I didn't say WinXP runs DOS as the base OS (which is what you were doing with Win95, 98) I said that DOS still exists on your computer and it is used to run non-win32 applications.