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AVG AS says my ISP gave me adware... Pi-Rat 11-28-2006
Posted by =?Utf-8?B?UGktUmF0?= on November 28, 2006, 2:11 pm
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Any time I run an AVG anti-spyware scan, I get 4 hits in registry files of
AdWare.WhyPPC, listed as a medium risk. This is from the PeoplePC accelorated
dial up connection. One appears to go to the Bartshel.exe and another seems
to go to their annoying toolbar. I can't figure out where the other 2 are. Is
this something that I should worry about or just leave alone?
I'm afraid to remove it at the moment, as I like the accelorator running,
because it take some of the painful sting out of slow dial up.

Posted by MAP on November 30, 2006, 7:53 am
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Pi-Rat wrote:
> Any time I run an AVG anti-spyware scan, I get 4 hits in registry
> files of AdWare.WhyPPC, listed as a medium risk. This is from the
> PeoplePC accelorated dial up connection. One appears to go to the
> Bartshel.exe and another seems to go to their annoying toolbar. I
> can't figure out where the other 2 are. Is this something that I
> should worry about or just leave alone?
> I'm afraid to remove it at the moment, as I like the accelorator
> running, because it take some of the painful sting out of slow dial
> up.


http://www.file.net/process/bartshel.exe.html
--
Mike Pawlak



Posted by =?Utf-8?B?UGktUmF0?= on December 2, 2006, 4:18 pm
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"MAP" wrote:

> Pi-Rat wrote:
> > Any time I run an AVG anti-spyware scan, I get 4 hits in registry
> > files of AdWare.WhyPPC, listed as a medium risk. This is from the
> > PeoplePC accelorated dial up connection. One appears to go to the
> > Bartshel.exe and another seems to go to their annoying toolbar. I
> > can't figure out where the other 2 are. Is this something that I
> > should worry about or just leave alone?
> > I'm afraid to remove it at the moment, as I like the accelorator
> > running, because it take some of the painful sting out of slow dial
> > up.
>
>
> http://www.file.net/process/bartshel.exe.html
> --
> Mike Pawlak
>

Bartshel.exe is really people pc dial up software, but now I'm getting 5
hits of Adware.WhyPPC as of this morning. Should I just totally remove all
people pc software and use a generic network connection and forget about the
accelorator? Am I getting false positves?

//Pi

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