Well, I just did a scan with ad aware and it found webhancer. Basically WH worms its way into your networking so that if it is deleted it stops your internet connection. It’s sort of like Gator, it retrieves information on websites you visit, stuff you enter in the site, how long it took to load the site, etc, and can also be used to put malicious code on my computer. It’s not showing up in my add/remove programs list in the control panel or any 3rd party program removal tools, and there’s no uninstaller for it (of course). I tried this site’s suggestion of installing a newer version and then uninstalling it, but the link it gave me (webhancer.com) doesn’t exist. It also said that I could use a new version AdAware to get rid of it, which I did (latest one, version 6.0 build 181), but after that my networking was disabled. Anybody know how to get rid of this thing?
http://www.doxdesk.com/parasite/webHancer.html
Getting rid of WebHancer
uhhhhhhh… i can rmember getting that “webhancer” over a year ago too…
I deleted it the rough way…bad result… suddently i couldnt get on internet…(through explorer) … i cannot remember wich program that installed this…i think it was some realplayer/kazaa thingy… and sorry…cant remember what i did to make it work… i think i reinstalled.
http://www.geocities.com/merijn_bellekom/new/webhancer.html <-- found this link
Wow, i read ur link squad…
This program seems more like some publicly released virus…
Hard 2 get rid of :huh:
THanks for the link. Yeah it’s a virus/spyware program all in one… how lovely. But they can’t be busted for it because apparently there’s a way to “uninstall” it, even though there’s no uninstaller :disgust:
OK i fixed the problem. The first time I used adaware first, then spybot to cleam up WH’s traces, but ad-aware doesn’t fix your network settings like spybot does. I did a system restore to get WH back on my system, then did a check with spybot. spybot restored my network settings, rebooted my maching and checked again to get rid of what was left. Then I rebooted, used ad aware, and cleaned up the remaining traces. Then I rebooted again and scanned first with ad aware and then with spybot to make sure there wasn’t anything left, and sure enough there wasn’t, and Spybot restored my network settings so that I can use the internet again 
Thanks for the help
Try the free trial of spysweeper. I found this program finds alot of things spybot does not(its a 30 day free trial). Also try a online free scan at www.bitdefender.com to catch viruses that your regular virus scan does not.