CrisPDuk

I have two peices of software that appear to have installed themselves onto my PC despite a my Firewall, they are Bargain Buddy & Search Assistant 180.

If I try to uninstall Bargain Buddy it freezes the PC, & if I try to uninstall the Search Assistant, a box comes up telling me that I need to be connected to the internet, then freezes the PC

1, How do I get these f**king parasites out of my machine? &

2, How do I stop them from coming back again?

lightning101

Try a combination of adaware and a program called spybot.


They are both free downloads and easy to find using google search.

CrisPDuk

Installed both off them on the advice of Mr Cookie yesterday, neither of them seem to be helping with these particular nasties

mj

Try booting into safe mode and then try to delete them.

LeeMac

iTrader: (1)

these are usually installed from another progs, eg menubars

goto c:\programfiles and delete the directories

lightning101

I think bargainbuddy comes with Kazaa.

CrisPDuk

Lightning, is that Kazaa or Kazoo? Because Kazoo has appeared from somewhere recently too

scooby nutter

I find Evidence eliminator is good for removing unwanted progs that you cant delete the usual ways.

Rajd

Instructions for removing Bargain Buddy can be found here: http://www.doxdesk.com/parasite/BargainBuddy.html


I use a program called SpywareBlaster and a little utility called BHODemon (both freeware) in addition to Adawre and spybot to stop these nasties getting on to my pc.