GreenguyandJim Fighting Zango

[Jim]

The whole program or script thing is tough. I found out yesterday that if you are not using a particular brand of windows or your PCs directory structure is not setup the same, it just won't work correctly.

I am almost thinking of educating surfers on the benefits of cookies and possibly suggesting a good anti-adware program. Of course, I will not change any pages. I may add a page with that suggestion and offer it to anyone that wants to use it. So far, the only way to get rid of this is to follow the instructions to the letter.

I think it may be just too big of a job to make a script and/or program that will work for all surfers suffering from this scumware.

[zman]

Originally Posted by Jim

The whole program or script thing is tough. I found out yesterday that if you are not using a particular brand of windows or your PCs directory structure is not setup the same, it just won't work correctly.

The PCs directory structure does not need to be set up in the standard way (C:Windows; C:\Program Files; etc.). The script I wrote is pretty simple but it does search for zango executables and dlls, unregisters and deletes those files. It also deletes known zango registry entries and zango cookies. I've made some minor changes since I uploaded it and I've also integrated the free process kill utility from symantec because as MightyMidget said the taskkill command is unavailable in Windows XP Home Edition. But the script still does not work under Win95/98/ME.

I am almost thinking of educating surfers on the benefits of cookies and possibly suggesting a good anti-adware program.

Of course the easiest and most effective way would be to recommend to the surfer a commercial adware/spyware remover, but as Greenie said they might think we want to make money off them.

So far, the only way to get rid of this is to follow the instructions to the letter.

My script does the same thing with a double-click of a button. I'll email you Jim with the latest version to your GGJ mail address. I've tested it out on quite a few computers and it worked fine. If it still has some flaws I should be able to make a few improvements.

I think it may be just too big of a job to make a script and/or program that will work for all surfers suffering from this scumware.

Well it's not easy but it can be done. I believe it might take a week or so to write a good remover that will work under all Windows OS's. The software should also be easy to adapt to new scumware like zango.