Shoutbox

Hey guys.

Looking for a bit of advice. Family computers been running really slow on the web and eventually freezing. Tracked this down to adware,spyware,malware...probably everything you could install on a machine.
Anyway, I ran SpyHunter tonight in the hopes of removing a certain program called BargainBuddy(there is no uninstaller btw). During the serach it threw up files called

• msdos98.exe
  
• mine.exe
  
• uninstallms.exe
  
• reg66.exe

They are all located in c:\WINDOWS\mine.
What I would like to know is wether or not, it would be safe to delete these or not.

We're going to start playing with the registery on monday after a system back up wich could lead to a format, but I don't want to spend the next few days reinstalling

All help appreciated

kill 'em... probably pure spyware

Just use Ad-Aware... if they call it spy/ad-ware, it's save to remove it

http://download.cnet.com/downloads/0-10106-108-63806.html

Nuke that entire folder!

Indeed spyware normally takes the filenames that makes you think twice about deleting them.  Same as most viri just use ad-aware to remove it all safely

To let you understand, Ad-aware doesn't pick it up . Norton refuses to delete it. SpyHunter is the only one thats picking it up (that and BT! Yahoo's Anti-Spy).
Might hold off until we back up the system but if its going to be alright to move......

This is most probably a virus.
Ad-aware is just scanning for ad/spyware, you should scan your system with something like AntiVir Personal Edition to find virusses. If Norton refuses to delete it, try running it in safe mode.

The last time I tried that, Norton caused a BSOD* moment, although I may have removed that problem. I'll try again, but norton isn't detecting any viruses (only the adware)

*BSOD = Blue Screen of Death

yeah this is a virus... once i had a problem like that a virus made a folder in windows..but when i deleted the folder and when i restarted it was all there again... but damn i cant remember what i did to remove it..
First tryto remove it and then go to HKEY LOCAL MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ Microsoft\ Windows\ CurrentVersion\ Run and see if theres any unknown item.. if so delete.. dont be afraid thats only the things wich start with the computer