This is my first posting and may lack some ettiquette but here goes.

I have a windowns millennium operating system that has Norton Anti Virus. My normal browser is AOL but while using ie5.5 I was alerted to a problem with mentions of spware.

I uploaded adaware but there are a number of files in c:\_Restore that refuse to be deleted. I get the message try closing browsers or do you want to reboot and have adaware rerun on rebooting.

I don't have any browsers open at the time I do it from the desktop and in? rebooting the same files reappear.

I cannot open my ie browser, i get an error message.

It has been suggested to me to :
Run Micrsoftantipware. This will only run with IE6.0 and I cannot complete the upload of IE6.0 because of the problem with
5.5 , I guess ?

Running killbox. This actually created copies of the bad files

Rebooting in safe mode and running adaware from here. Tried to get to safe mode using F8 during reboot but this didn't work

Have tried selecting the files in windows exploere and trying to remove them.

I can still use my aol browser but not my ie and the bad files are still there

Thanks for your patience

Howdy And Welcome To Pc Help Forums

You need to turn off system resotre that is why you are having those problem's getting rid of the pests, here is how in ME


WinME.

Click Start > Settings > Control Panel.
Double-click the System icon.
If the System icon is not visible, click View all Control Panel options to display it.
On the Performance tab, click File System.
On the Troubleshooting tab check Disable System Restore.
Click OK. Click Yes, when you are prompted to restart Windows.

Thanks for that suggestion Merlin but that check box is already checked

could you download clenaup up from my signature and run it, then post a hijack this log(also in my sig) right back here. We will get rid of the crud for ya!

Sorry for the novice question but , where do I find your signature ?
And I will be able to find cleanaup and post a hijack thru this signature ?

if you look at the bottom of my post, you will see cleanup..click on that and it will download for you.. after you run that Hijackthuis is also right next to it download that and click on scan and make a log... Copy the whole log and paste it back into a post right back here.. Let me know if you still dont see clean up... Just look down :-)

now I see cleanup. Thx