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Any Freeware out there to delete these annoying 'spyware' files?

The ones I have investigated seem quite complicated - DOS and all that and I
am a simple soul.

Running XP Pro.

Cheers in advance.

On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 09:42:31 -0000, "nobody760" <>
wrote:

>Any Freeware out there to delete these annoying 'spyware' files?
>
>The ones I have investigated seem quite complicated - DOS and all that and I
>am a simple soul.
>
>Running XP Pro.
>
>Cheers in advance.
>



They are not spyware files..

nobody760 wrote:
>
> Any Freeware out there to delete these annoying 'spyware' files?
>
> The ones I have investigated seem quite complicated - DOS and all that and I
> am a simple soul.
>
> Running XP Pro.
>
> Cheers in advance.

Lavasoft Ad-aware perhaps...

http://www.lavasoft.de/

"nobody760" <> wrote in message
news:bosv9l$i2v$...
> Any Freeware out there to delete these annoying 'spyware' files?
>
> The ones I have investigated seem quite complicated - DOS and all that and
I
> am a simple soul.
>
> Running XP Pro.
>
> Cheers in advance.
>

Look for one called Spider

In article <bosv9l$i2v$>, nobody760
@NOSPAMhotmail.com says...
> Any Freeware out there to delete these annoying 'spyware' files?
>
> The ones I have investigated seem quite complicated - DOS and all that and I
> am a simple soul.
>
> Running XP Pro.
>
> Cheers in advance.

Login as 'another' user (Administrator?). You'll then be able to delete
'your' .dat files.

--
Duncan

nobody760 wrote:
> Any Freeware out there to delete these annoying 'spyware' files?
>
> The ones I have investigated seem quite complicated - DOS and all that and
> I am a simple soul.

There's some more info on Windows index.dat files here ...
http://www.****microsoft.com/content...en-files.shtml


Peter

"nobody760" <> wrote in message
news:bosv9l$i2v$...
> Any Freeware out there to delete these annoying 'spyware' files?
>
> The ones I have investigated seem quite complicated - DOS and all that and
I
> am a simple soul.
>
> Running XP Pro.
>
> Cheers in advance.
>
>

For the record index.dat isn't 'spyware', it's a cache. From my experience,
also using Windows XP, you can clean it out by going into Tools/Internet
Options (in IE) and clicking "Delete Files", "Delete Cookies" and "Clear
History". I've used Windows Washer with previous versions of Windows but
Windows XP doesn't seem to need it.