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Posted by: Alec Lawson (Wednesday 18 February 2004, 11:35 PM)

Had similar problem. For some time, VX2.dll has been giving problems, suddenly it would start causing Explorer to crash. To cure that required a System Restore, which then caused Norton Antivirus to crash the machine, so needed to uninstall & reinstall NAV. All very messy & painful. So this time around I dug a bit deeper, found the scares about VX2 so I downloaded & ran Adaware to clear it out.
It looks as if Adaware locates & deletes only the registry entries related to these Spyware programs, rather than the files containing the code itself. So, OK that meant VX2 wasn't loading itself on startup, but I have had to manually delete the VX2.dll file to actually purge it from my machine.
cheers
AL