what the heck is Freepod on AIM?
I went over to my girlfriend's apartment last night and as soon as I walked in the door her roomie ran over, practically in tears. She was IM'ing on AIM on her Dell laptop when she received a message from one of her buddies that read "hey, check out this link". She clicked on it and something called Freepod Toolbar downloaded to her laptop. Then, this thing contacted everyone in her buddy list and sent the same message. It happend so quickly that she didn't have time to quit AIM before it blitzed all her buddies.
In an effort to uninstall this thing, I first tried through add/remove programs to uninstall. It seemed to work, but when we restarted the computer, the first thing to pop up after the log in screen was a progress bar "downloading freepod".
So then I did a search for all the files on the computer that had been modified or created in the previous twenty minutes. I deleted anything that had freepod in the name and any .exe files. We restarted the computer and the damn thing downloaded itself again.
So I am at a bit of a loss as to what to do. Adaware and Norton Anti Virus won't touch this thing. Short of reformatting and reinstallation, I don't know what to do next.
What the hell is Freepod, and how do I get rid of it?
PS: my iBook is blissfully unaffected!
In an effort to uninstall this thing, I first tried through add/remove programs to uninstall. It seemed to work, but when we restarted the computer, the first thing to pop up after the log in screen was a progress bar "downloading freepod".
So then I did a search for all the files on the computer that had been modified or created in the previous twenty minutes. I deleted anything that had freepod in the name and any .exe files. We restarted the computer and the damn thing downloaded itself again.
So I am at a bit of a loss as to what to do. Adaware and Norton Anti Virus won't touch this thing. Short of reformatting and reinstallation, I don't know what to do next.
What the hell is Freepod, and how do I get rid of it?
PS: my iBook is blissfully unaffected!
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If this can't help you.. it's a tough cookie.
Follow these instructions and hopefully you have a winner. A similar situation with very detailed help on how to remove the malware is posted here as well.
Good luck!