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Old October 24th, 2005
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I'd have thought the uninstaller would remove the registry items. I thought that was the idea of using the uninstaller. Otherwise you could just remove the program manually by sending it to the trash.

As for spyware programs you need to be very careful of your choice when using p2p programs. Far too many of them out there on the market don't work well with p2p programs & think they are spywares. They fail to recognise that things like the magnets & http help links are a part of the program & not spywares. So in fact, your spyware utility might have done LW damage.

What's normally recommended is: 1. Spybot - Search & Destroy (FREE), & you could also add 2. ad-ware (FREE) as they do slightly different jobs. More are http://www.norbiesworld.co.uk/Downloads/c=2.html but I'm not sure how p2p friendly all of those are. BTW Spybot got the thumbs up from a spyware forum as being one of the very best ones out there. (And apparently some spyware killers have spyware themselves. lol And there's also some scam spyware utilities on the market also! )

As for registry items, I'm not the one to ask. But as I said above, I was under the impression the uninstaller would remove them.
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