Wednesday, September 08, 2004
Yesterday, my blog received its first visitor from the Philippines. It was someone who did a Yahoo search on "writing skit philippines" and stumbled upon this place. Of course, it's entirely possible that I've had visitors from the Philippines before. There was just no way for me to know that until I switched over to StatCounter. At any rate, I can now say that my blog has an international audience.
I've been trying to find a way to remove this adware/spyware called VX2 from this laptop that I'm working on. It's the second computer I've seen that has this. (I haven't been able to fix the first one either.) It looks like this program is keeping the computer from having internet access. Programs such as Ad-Aware and Spybot apparently are not able to remove it. I even found a VX2 removal plug-in for Ad-Aware, but that doesn't seem to work either. What's annoying is that after it's supposedly removed, it replicates itself under another random filename - even after booting in safe mode. Challenging and yet annoying...
I've been trying to find a way to remove this adware/spyware called VX2 from this laptop that I'm working on. It's the second computer I've seen that has this. (I haven't been able to fix the first one either.) It looks like this program is keeping the computer from having internet access. Programs such as Ad-Aware and Spybot apparently are not able to remove it. I even found a VX2 removal plug-in for Ad-Aware, but that doesn't seem to work either. What's annoying is that after it's supposedly removed, it replicates itself under another random filename - even after booting in safe mode. Challenging and yet annoying...
