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hen4ry

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28. November 2008 @ 14:42

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Kcleaner [freeware] v0.13.0.21

I must say I think "Kcleaner" is a dynamite program. I use it everyday but ... "Kcleaner" will install Spyware/Adware if you're
not careful to catch it. I use "Sunbelt Personal Firewall" and my firewall caught "RelevantKnowledge" requesting installation authorization. I denied it of course. But I thought it interesting enough to post some thoughts about RK taken from the "RK removal site" [link shown below].

RelevantKnowledge Description

RelevantKnowledge is an online market research service that conducts surveys on topics of interest to the Internet community. Responses to these surveys are aggregated and the results help determine the content you see when you surf. RelevantKnowledge monitors your Internet surfing, by routing your Internet activities through their service and logging information about the web pages that you visit and the actions that you take, such as the purchases and transactions you make. RelevantKnowledge can only monitor the Internet behavior and activity of your configured computers.

RelevantKnowledge is a type of Adware.

Adware usually acts without your authorization or knowledge. Many free utilities may install hidden software, possibly to earn money for the author to recover development costs. While adware is not always malicious, it typically tracks your Internet activity and sends other information from your computer (which can include email addresses) to advertisers. With this information, you may now be a target for pop-up/pop-under advertisements, additional toolbars, and spam.

Link to RelevantKnowledge... http://www.RelevantKnowledge.com

Link to site with helpful suggestions on RK removal... http://www.spywareremove.com/removeRelevantKnowledge.html

As a post script... I don't care what spyware removal program
you're going to use, you're still going to have to do a line
by line deletion in the registry. These programs can't get
around the restrictions of a "read only" registry key ["Admin Privilege"]. You have to manually lift this restriction to
delete the key.

To help me search the registry for "whatever"...for what it's worth, I use "Registry Crawler" [for 5 years]. A super fast registry searcher.

I hope this post was worthwhile...hen4ry

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