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eAcceleration Stop Sign
by Like-A-Rock - 8/25/04 8:15 AMAfter seeing the eAcceleration Stop Sign ad on TV I went to their site and ran their Stop Sign program. It told me that I had a whole slew of viruses and spyware on my system. Suspicious, I ran FIVE other programs (Norton Antivirus, Lavasoft Ad-Aware, Spysweeper, McAfee Virus Scan and Trend-Micro's online "Housecall" program). They all gave my computer a clean bill-of-health. In fact, the only thing they showed was the spyware left behind on my computer by eAcceleration themselves. Meanwhile, eAcceleration wanted me to spend good money to subscribe to their services to remove a bunch of viruses and spyware which didn't even exist. Sounds like a big scam to me. Sounds like outright FRAUD, actually. B**tards!
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by LarryD - 8/25/04 8:21 AM In reply to: eAcceleration Stop Sign by Like-A-RockAlso have a look here;........
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- 8/25/04 9:06 AM
In reply to: eAcceleration Stop Sign by Like-A-Rock
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Re: eAcceleration Stop Sign
by Sammel - 8/27/04 10:06 AM In reply to: eAcceleration Stop Sign by Like-A-RockUse Ad Aware and believe it........ I ran into the same eAcceleration baloney. Get rid of it.
Sam.
Re: eAcceleration Stop Sign
by hi_dream96720 - 9/13/04 9:17 AM In reply to: Re: eAcceleration Stop Sign by SammelIt took me an fdisk & reformat to get rid of the stuff stop-sign leaves behind. :S And yes........ Sam's way is probably the best way to go. 
HI_Dream96720
Re: eAcceleration Stop Sign
by atommiller - 9/26/04 8:33 AM In reply to: eAcceleration Stop Sign by Like-A-RockI had the same experience. I found that notepad.exe didn't work right after installing stop-sign. Then I ran stop sign again, and it found all kinds of things that spybot, lavasoft, and Symantic did not (imaginary things I suspect). I instantly came to the same conclusion - this looks like a big scam.
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