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« Reply #20 on: December 22, 2011, 02:30:57 pm »

Hmm.... Have you tried completely reinstalling Windows 7?
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« Reply #21 on: December 22, 2011, 02:38:50 pm »

I know why you can't access Cnet. They recently got into a lot of trouble for intentionally adding Malware to programs on their site. Use one of the other download options.
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« Reply #22 on: December 22, 2011, 02:52:30 pm »

Hmm.... Have you tried completely reinstalling Windows 7?

I SO want to avoid that..... Undecided

I know why you can't access Cnet. They recently got into a lot of trouble for intentionally adding Malware to programs on their site. Use one of the other download options.

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« Reply #23 on: December 22, 2011, 02:54:01 pm »

Yeah, that is true, actually. they pretty much added whatever they wanted into downloads; even if the creator didn't want that, more or less.
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« Reply #24 on: December 22, 2011, 02:55:13 pm »

Yeah. Cnet has been planting adware and viruses inside the installers of programs hosted on it.
Most antivirus programs now detect the Cnet installer as a virus, and most "safe browsing" programs block it.
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« Reply #25 on: December 22, 2011, 03:08:00 pm »

And they just get away with it??
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« Reply #26 on: December 22, 2011, 03:08:53 pm »

Well, a lot of customers (and software makers) are furious, but so far, Cnet has gotten away with it.
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« Reply #27 on: December 22, 2011, 03:26:01 pm »

They might be 'getting away with it', but, big tech sites have been reporting about it. So while they might 'get away with it', the portion of people who read those sites likely won't go there to get stuff. =P
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« Reply #28 on: December 22, 2011, 03:58:26 pm »

Very good info.

But.... *repeatedly pokes BOT button*

Still doesn't change the fact that RemoveAds is still functional, after I uninstalled it. >_>

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« Reply #29 on: December 22, 2011, 04:25:41 pm »

Where did you get the program.. I cannot find any info on it at all.
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« Reply #30 on: December 22, 2011, 04:42:33 pm »

this is the dev website. its under downloads.
http://www.majorshare.com/

i heard about it here of all places.
http://howto.cnet.com/8301-11310_39-57343555-285/how-to-remove-ads-from-im-clients/
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« Reply #31 on: December 22, 2011, 04:52:36 pm »

But you downloaded it from the site, or did you download it from CNET?

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Majorshare has a support link.
And if you downloaded from cnet you should include that in your ticket.
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« Reply #32 on: December 22, 2011, 05:51:13 pm »

i left a them an email a few days ago - no response so far.

i always prefer to download programs/apps via the developer's site over a third party (with obvious exceptions of steam, android market, ect)
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« Reply #33 on: December 22, 2011, 06:02:53 pm »

Well that's a good practice, it would seem.
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« Reply #34 on: December 23, 2011, 03:45:27 am »

!!!

Got an email back from the developer, and it fixed it! I'll bold the part that did the trick.

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Hello Matthew, sorry to hear that and also sorry for your 1 Star in Cnet (: this is a freeware software, as it says it comes with absolutely no  support, but i'm still trying to help my software's users.

I released a new version of RemoveAds (v1.1) almos a week ago but its recently approved on CNET.

There was no disable feature on the first version, accually i was forgot to add this feature (:

New version 1.1 comes with that feature but, it uses a backup file that located in RemoveAds folder.

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- If you did not delete "C:\Program Files\RemoveAds" folder manullay, there will be a file named "backup.ads".
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- Go to: "C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc" there will be "hosts" file too.
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After these steps, it will go back to normal few minutes later.

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- In this case go to "C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc". Open hosts file with notepad and remove all the lines which begins with 184. (do not delete that hosts file)

If you have any further questions you can reply this email.

Sincerely,
-Gurkan Dilmen]Hello Matthew, sorry to hear that and also sorry for your 1 Star in Cnet (: this is a freeware software, as it says it comes with absolutely no  support, but i'm still trying to help my software's users.

I released a new version of RemoveAds (v1.1) almos a week ago but its recently approved on CNET.

There was no disable feature on the first version, accually i was forgot to add this feature (:

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- If you did not delete "C:\Program Files\RemoveAds" folder manullay, there will be a file named "backup.ads".
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- Rename this "backup.ads" file as "hosts" (remove the file extension ".ads").
- Copy that file.
- Go to: "C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc" there will be "hosts" file too.
- Pastle renamed "hosts" file here and replace it with existing "hosts" file.

After these steps, it will go back to normal few minutes later.

*****Considering if you removed remaining files in "C:\Program Files\RemoveAds".
- In this case go to "C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc". Open hosts file with notepad and remove all the lines which begins with 184. (do not delete that hosts file)

If you have any further questions you can reply this email.

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so that seems to be the last of it removed! finally!
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« Reply #35 on: December 23, 2011, 04:06:33 am »

That's good to hear!

But sad that he is still supporting cnet.
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