DownloadWare – An Easily Solved Problem
Let us start with how DownloadWare, a piece of adware, gets onto your computer. There is an ActiveX control called Active Install. This ActiveX control will download DownloadWare, MediaLoads, or ClipGenie onto your system. All three of those programs are the same thing, just under different names. You could also have chosen to download the wrong toolbar, as many toolbars are really just tricks to install adware onto your computer.
DownloadWare will then add other bundled software to your computer without your knowledge or permission. These programs can include premium rate dialers from places like Popcorn.net, MVP Networks, Movie Networks, or Real-Tens. Bundled software can also include P2P network programs in the bundle such as Limewire and Mozilla. If there is a network or Internet connection available DownloadWare will connect to its servers, which can then direct the program to download and install software from advertisers. It will then hijack your Web browser and your searches to send you to where its advertisers want you to go. From this description you may realize that DownloadWare is a Trojan.
If you try “Add or Remove Programs” from your computer’s Control Panel, you will find you cannot remove DownloadWare the way you would any other program. If you try to remove it, you will find on start up that it starts up as if you never removed it. This can be alarming, but do not worry there is a program out there that will fully remove DownloadWare for you.
This program is SpyZooka. I wouldn’t be surprised if this is the first time you have heard of SpyZooka since it is a new program which only came out in January of 2008. SpyZooka is an easy to use program, but the most important thing about SpyZooka is that it works. SpyZooka is the only software on the market to have a 100% removal guarantee. No other company demands that much from their product, and frankly the other anti-spyware programs only remove 80-90% of the infection, often leaving one of the pieces behind the infection needs to reinstall itself.
