Strutter wrote:
> I have the most irritating b*stard piece of sh*tware on my machine!
>
> 1 How the hell did it get onto my machine? My machine was left online
> with Yahoo Messenger and MSN messenger running, nothing else for
> about a day. I then find there's 40 pieces of scumware found by
> Ad-Aware, that were apparently removed. I have Tiny Firewall, and
> AntiVir running to protect my system. It is worrying this crap can
> get on your machine when you're not even using the computer!

Your system settings are too soft. LOP is a nasty parasite.
Follow the advice here:
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm

> 2 How do I uninstall the LOP toolbar, Ad-Aware and SpyBot find
> nothing, yet when I open up internet explorer it's there! I've run an
> installer available on LOP.com, but it does f*ck all!

Ad-Aware and SpyBot both have updates available in the last couple of days.
Insure that Ad-Aware is at V6.181 and that you have check for beta includes
in SpyBot Settings.

> Please help before I cricket bat my PC into oblivion!

It's not your PC's fault. It's the parasitic money grabbing advertisers
that need the cricket bat.

I use IE-SPYAD that places these nasty sites into the IE Restricted Zone.
http://www.staff.uiuc.edu/~ehowes/resource.htm#IESPYAD

I use a HOSTS file to stop these sites even displaying.
http://asp.flaaten.dk/proxo/forum.asp?FORUM_ID=20
or http://asp.flaaten.dk/download/pafil...action=viewall

>> o)
>
> Thanks,

HTH.

> Strutter