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| Thread ID: 41152 | 2003-12-31 22:10:00 | Removing Wild Tangent from Control Panel | twelvevolts (2623) | Press F1 |
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| 204573 | 2003-12-31 22:10:00 | I have an icon for Wild Tangent in my control panel and haven't been able to find a way to remove it. I have I think removed everything else to do with this spyware, but Spybot and Ad Aware don't seem to help in removing the control panel icon. This might be a no brainer but I can't see an easy way to get rid of it. |
twelvevolts (2623) | ||
| 204574 | 2003-12-31 22:31:00 | And what flavour of Windows are you running? 3.0/3.1/3.11/95/98/ME/NT/2K/XP ??? | Pheonix (280) | ||
| 204575 | 2004-01-01 05:14:00 | Spybot removed Wild tangent from my system when it wormed it's way in through a winamp skin. I know you've probably already done it, but have you got the latest updates for Spybot. You could try doing a registry search and remove any instances of Wild Tangent but that could be risky. |
Odin (227) | ||
| 204576 | 2004-01-01 06:41:00 | If you are running XP RUN | Regedit |HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE | SOFTWARE | Microsoft | Windows | Current Version | Uninstall Then remove unwanted Folders or Files. Suggest leave any dll files You are working in the Registry so make a backup of Folders and files with location of those you want to remove so that if things turn to custard you can go back to square one. |
FrankS (257) | ||
| 204577 | 2004-01-01 08:08:00 | As far as I know, Wild Tangent is a driver software for some of the MSN Gaming Zone online games. It is needed to play those games - someone who uses your computer may have gone to zone.com and played one of those games, which have required it to be installed. | somebody (208) | ||
| 204578 | 2004-01-01 09:12:00 | Just possibly there is a .cpl file in c:\windows\system32 that is related to Wild Tangent. Try a file search for *.cpl and look through the list that is brought up. Anything that looks like a Wild Tangent file I'd suggest renaming, re-boot and see if the icon disappears. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 204579 | 2004-01-01 10:04:00 | Ok - yes I have the latest version of Spybot and it does appear to have removed everything but the control panel entry. I tried the suggested registry method - but I can't find anything with the name wild tangent to remove. So I haven't made too much progress yet. I have Windows XP professional. | twelvevolts (2623) | ||
| 204580 | 2004-01-02 00:54:00 | For games using Wild Tangent see http://www.wildtangent.com Have you got Belarc Advisor installed?, this will list in "Software Versions" what is installed. From Grandsons computer the following "Wild Tangent -Game Channel Version 1, 5, 1, 0 *" Clicking on asterisk tells you where software is installed You can download a free version of Belarc Advisor from www.belarc.com Appreciate you have removed most of Wild Tangent but I think Belarc will still pick it up if it is still listed in Add/Remove |
FrankS (257) | ||
| 204581 | 2004-01-02 20:30:00 | Nailed the sucker. It wasn't appearing in Belarc (I had that already) but was in c:\windows\system32 as wt.cpl. I can see now that wt stands for wild tangent - but some things aren't always obvious at first until you come to realise they should have been!! | twelvevolts (2623) | ||
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