Uninstall Malware via Add/Remove Programs
Quite often many problem programs can be uninstalled just by going to Control Panel and selecting Add/Remove Programs. Doing this before running cleaning procedures may help to give better more complete cleaning results and could even speed things up. Look for any of the below items in Add/Remove programs and if found select them and uninstall them. Some of these items (and they are flagged with ****)are on the Rogue Tool List.


See list here.
(often updated)

Another great list Here.

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Joe5,
Thanks for the list of *nasties*. My home PC is having some pretty serious redirect issues...I'm on my work computer now, but I plan on submitting my Hijack This log file for the site techies' perusal tonight. Provided, that is, my stupid 'puter lets me stay on this page long enough! I hope I just have a troublesome download to get rid of!