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All of a sudden a program popped up on my PC at start up called Power Scan,
which purports to scan for porno. I have no idea where it came from and I
did not install it. Not knowing what it is I have not used it nor have I
used the "uninstall" button as I'm not sure what it will do. Has anyone else
run into this and is it safe to use the uninstall feature? Norton anti virus
on a system check detects no virus. The program does not appear in the start
menu nor does it appear in the control panel for a installed/uninstall
program. Checked a web sit called www.power-scan.com and it show what looks
like the program but no details which I find strange.

Any ideas?

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On Fri, 3 Oct 2003 16:21:20 -0500, in
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Loki scrawled:

>All of a sudden a program popped up on my PC at start up called Power Scan,
>which purports to scan for porno. I have no idea where it came from and I
>did not install it. Not knowing what it is I have not used it nor have I
>used the "uninstall" button as I'm not sure what it will do. Has anyone else
>run into this and is it safe to use the uninstall feature? Norton anti virus
>on a system check detects no virus. The program does not appear in the start
>menu nor does it appear in the control panel for a installed/uninstall
>program. Checked a web sit called www.power-scan.com and it show what looks
>like the program but no details which I find strange.
>
>Any ideas?
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Loki wrote:
> All of a sudden a program popped up on my PC at start up called Power
> Scan, which purports to scan for porno. I have no idea where it came
> from and I did not install it. Not knowing what it is I have not used
> it nor have I used the "uninstall" button as I'm not sure what it
> will do. Has anyone else run into this and is it safe to use the
> uninstall feature? Norton anti virus on a system check detects no
> virus. The program does not appear in the start menu nor does it
> appear in the control panel for a installed/uninstall program.
> Checked a web sit called www.power-scan.com and it show what looks
> like the program but no details which I find strange.
>
> Any ideas?
>
>

I.ve removed your e-mail above, it is not wise to publish such things on
Usenet

I had a look at that site, very undesirable!
Thiere privacy policy says they can do what they like with your machine.

They kindly left a couple of 'data-miner' cookies on my machine.
I have removed said cookies with 'Ad-Aware' which is a free and respected
utility for doing such.
A link to download Ad-Aware is;
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/

Another free program that is much along the lines Ad-Aware (and so
respected) is 'Spybot Search and Destroy'.
http://www.safer-networking.org/

What I would do is to install 'Ad-aware' or/and 'Spybot Search and Destroy',
remove the undesirable program as best as possible and then run 'Ad-aware'
or/and 'Spybot Search and Destroy'.
Said programs should be checked for updates (facility to do so is within
programs).

used these and they don't show the program

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That's not Mabel, you poor creature.

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On Sat, 4 Oct 2003 05:30:37 -0500, in
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Loki scrawled:

>used these and they don't show the program
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