Guest margaretanne Posted March 9, 2012 Posted March 9, 2012 All of a sudden Winpcap 4.1.2 and NMap 5.0 have been installed on my computer. I have Windows Vista. Use Internet Explorer 8 and/or Firefox 10.0. have McAfee Security-as-a-Service through Dell (IYogi) as well as AVG. I never download new programs. Programs on my computer have been there since factory installation. About two weeks ago (give or take a few days) these other two programs showed up out of nowhere. I did a manual uninstall through the control panel/programs, but upon restart, they reinstalled. Dell (IYogi) tried twice over the phone to uninstall...same thing. They said there wasn't any threat; the programs are a nuisance more than anything else (whatever that means). I have firewalls and have run constant scans, but nothing questionable shows up. Even tried Revo Uninstaller Program to do a forced uninstall, but nothing. Can anyone help????? Are these programs dangerous? How can they be permanently uninstalled? How did they even get on my computer to begin with????? Continue reading... Quote
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