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    I'm running XP Pro. Has any abody heard of Backweb, Bigfoot, VeriSign, WhereWho and do I need them. I found them in the reg. HKCU\Software\Microsoft\InternetAccountManager\Accounts. I didn't find Backweb on this path thats somewhere else in the reg. Thanks in advance for any info.
     
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    lj50,

    Know some of them -

    Backweb - often installed on HP m/c's and may be regarded as spyware.

    Bigfoot is an email forwarding, etc site

    VeriSign - Credit Card security - verifies security of buy on line sites - you must have seen this :) ?

    WhereWho - many hits on Google - no idea.

    Best course of action - run Spybot and AdAware - update their reference files immediately.

    Run Spybot before AdAware and delete all they find.

    If any of these remain assume they are OK
     
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    I found Backweb in the reg Logitech desktop messenger. should I delete all of these. Every time i use spybot or adaware i get weurd error messages. I'll delete them manually.
     
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    Leave well alone for the moment.

    What sort of weird messages? Can you paste them here?
     
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    I got a dialog box that read Error 2: when i tried to access advanced system information through help and support center i had to do sys restore to a point before I installed those two programs
     
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    That's nothing to do with AdAware or Spybot.

    OK - export each of those registry entries to a safe place, say My Documents. Then delete the entries from the registry. If there is a problem double click on the saved reg files in My Docs to merge it back into the registry.
     
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