Comments on: Adware maker seeks to thwart rogue installs

In continuing effort to clean up its image, 180solutions updates two products to thwart "rogue distributors."

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Putting lipstick on a pig doesn't make it less of a pig

And no amount of window dressing will make these thieves of CPU and memory resources any more attractive.

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Putting lipstick on a pig doesn't make it less of a pig

And no amount of window dressing will make these thieves of CPU and memory resources any more attractive.

Kudos

They continue to make improvements to their business, which is a good thing for a high-bandwidth website owner who wants to provide free services and content. If they can make their product relatively secure, and convince users that they're not the boogeyman, they might just have something there.

Kudos

They continue to make improvements to their business, which is a good thing for a high-bandwidth website owner who wants to provide free services and content. If they can make their product relatively secure, and convince users that they're not the boogeyman, they might just have something there.

[Computer Guy]

Yeah... Sure...anyone for the Brooklyn Bridge?

Since the spyware apps I have used to remove 180Solutions are useless in complely taking it off my machine we will all have to go about it doing it the long way; deleting it thru the Registry.

It is always prude to back up the Registy before
modifying it, of course...

1. Go to Start->Run and type in "Regedit" (no quotes)
2. In the Edit Menu select "Find"
3. Type in 180Solutions in the input box
4. Click on Find Next
5. Press the delete button and click "Yes" to delete
6. Press the F3 button to find the next one
7. Continue doing the last two steps above for each instance (there could be many repetitions mirrored through out the registry)
8. When the search pops up with the "Finish Searching thru Registry" dialog box, you have successfully removed all instances.

[Computer Guy]

Yeah... Sure...anyone for the Brooklyn Bridge?

Since the spyware apps I have used to remove 180Solutions are useless in complely taking it off my machine we will all have to go about it doing it the long way; deleting it thru the Registry.

It is always prude to back up the Registy before
modifying it, of course...

1. Go to Start->Run and type in "Regedit" (no quotes)
2. In the Edit Menu select "Find"
3. Type in 180Solutions in the input box
4. Click on Find Next
5. Press the delete button and click "Yes" to delete
6. Press the F3 button to find the next one
7. Continue doing the last two steps above for each instance (there could be many repetitions mirrored through out the registry)
8. When the search pops up with the "Finish Searching thru Registry" dialog box, you have successfully removed all instances.