Help Me Shuck Xupiter Program (1 Viewer)

[Bill Kane]

Somehow in October I allowed the commercial "browser-related" Xupiter Program to insinuate itself into my computer.

I managed to rid (hide?) the toolbar display, and under RUN I went to msconfig to Start-Up and disabled Xupiter (two boxes) here. But it's still in there. For example, I find Xupiter ToolbarInstaller and Xupiter ToolbarLoader still "approved" in my ZoneAlarm programs.

It's in the computer as a CrogramFiles configuration. However, I do not find it under Settings/ControlPanel/ Add-Remove Programs.

I want to eliminate this. Any suggestions?

tks, bill

 

[Wayne Bundrick]

Try a program called SpyBot, supposedly it can get rid of Xupiter entirely.

 

[Chad Ellinger]

Ad-aware is the best program of its kind.

 

[Bill Kane]

tks, I'll look into (them)

edited for OT

 

[Scott L]

Deja vu? Also to get rid of it completely go into your registry and run a search for Xupiter. Delete everything you see with its name on it, then upgrade to the newest IE.

 

[Bill Kane]

Registry? I sorta thot that as last resort, but that's dangerous terra incognita to me...Still I already am up to IE 6 and dont wanta rock THAT boat.

thanks Scott for responding....

 

[Scott L]

Np Bill but just a word of advice, Xupiter was on my folks' computer too and it was a pain to get rid of. Personally I had to go to regedit to get it out completely. Things like xupiter.com being the default search page for IE kept bugging me.