"Davoud" <star@sky.net> wrote in message
news:010920030948364594%star@sky.net...
>
> Davoud:
> > > ...I used to call Windows a cheap imitation of the Mac OS, but I
didn't
> > > really know what I was talking about -- Win XP Pro isn't nearly good
> > > enough to be called a cheap imitation of the Mac OS!
>
> > > ...So what brought me to this NG? I've never run into spyware before,
and
> > > now something is causing eZula to be downloaded to my Vaio. I have a
> > > detector/deleter, but I'm trying to find what is causing it to be
> > > downloaded repeatedly.
>
> mto:
> > Script in the richmedia ads on the pages you are visiting. Turn off
scripts
> > & ActiveX, install Spybot Search and Destroy (free) - update, clean and
> > immunize system - then get Spyware Blaster and do the same. Most of us
also
> > install and run AdAware version on the premise that what one hasn't
updated
> > to catch yet the other might do, which is frequently the case.
>
> It can't be just the ads on web pages, because eZula TopText downloads
> when the web browser isn't open. I rarely use the web on the Vaio, and
> haven't even set up Outlook or a newsreader. There is some software on
> the machine that goes and fetches eZula.
>
> That an operating system could allow this to happen is beyond
> outrageous.
>
> Davoud

Sounds like your detector/deleter isn't doing a thorough job of things.
Spybot Search and Destroy, advanced mode, update first, immunize when done
should do the trick. Can't find URL right this second - FIND the newsgroup
archives for the last week and it will magically appear.

It IS outrageous that this happens - and eZula is not the worst of it by a
long shot.