RE: Free software loads other stuff

I'm "late to the party" but I addition to Ad-Aware and Spybot there is also
Search and Destroy and Hi-Jack This ! I use all 4.

And as was mentioned, make SURE you always check for updates and there is a
very good config outline for Ad-Aware on their website, because as noted,
they are things not set on initial install that should be. Would be nice if
they would just auto enable that since they tell you to manually do it...

Chuck

-----Original Message-----
From: pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of James R. Newman, CDP
Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2004 11:11 AM
To: PC Tech
Subject: [PCTECH] Free software loads other stuff

I'm running a Dell (don't buy one) 1.4 ghz with 256 meg ram running Windows
XP Pro.

A couple of days ago my 4 year old son saw an aquarium program running in an
office superstore. Rather than buy the program I downloaded 3 from Cnet and
installed them. I quickly noticed they'd loaded lots of other stuff like
pop-ups. 1 of them had an uninstall. I deleted the folders the programs were
loaded into and ran Norton Windows Doctor to get rid of anything left
behind. 
When I run MSCONFIG I notice I've still got stuff loading that wasn't there
before such as: 

eeuneqv
vbabsxs
inetmgr
QuikSearch.exe
li01f948.dll
iel2cde.dll 

I think these were left behind by the freebies but how do I know for sure? I
know I can find the files and delete them but won't Windows still try and
load at startup? How do I get this stuff to not load (get it out of
MSCONFIG)?