On Tue, 01 Jul 2003 12:54:41 GMT, oldfogie@nospam.net wrote:

>I think the wonderful folks who produce this spyware/virus have
>adjusted it again so that it cannot be removed/uninstalled.
>
>I've tried:
>1) Ad-aware using the latest ref files
>2) Deleting the reg entries listed in earlier posts here
>3) Deleting the ezula folder in c:\program files (after having to
>change its read-only status)
>4) Using winxp's uninstall utility in control panel (how
>"coincidental" that doing this sends you right to the toptext webpage,
>where I suspect it can be re-sent to your computer)
>5) deleting every file an "ezula" or "zula" search turned up on my
>harddrive
>6) deleting every instance of stub.exe or ezstub.exe
>
>After shut-down/re-start, the ezula folder re-appears in c:\program
>files.
>
>I'm baffled! I've spent 2 hours of my spare time trying to get rid of
>this %&+#)%)* thing with no success.
>
>My last hope will be to use GoBack to revert my harddrive to a time in
>the past, but it will mean losing what I've installed since then and
>backing up email, docs, address book, etc etc etc.
>
>Can someone help me who has removed ezula/toptext recently? TIA.

AFAIK, SpyBot targets eZula,
http://security.kolla.de/index.php?l...s-ezulahottext
That's a typo in the URL.

HTH


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because they almost always turn out to be -- or to be indistinguishable from
-- self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time."
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