Winfix - what is it?

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In the last couple of days, a popup called Winfix comes up and it has the
appearance of being a Windows program. But I am suspicious so I closed it.
Am I correct in thinking it is not a safe and legitimate program? When I run
Ad-Aware it picks up cookies as critical elements - do I have spyware ??

 

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In article <A22857A5-086B-4CCE-9D62-DF17C0A967D6@microsoft.com>,
Bredf331@discussions.microsoft.com says...
> In the last couple of days, a popup called Winfix comes up and it has the
> appearance of being a Windows program. But I am suspicious so I closed it.
> Am I correct in thinking it is not a safe and legitimate program? When I run
> Ad-Aware it picks up cookies as critical elements - do I have spyware ??

Looks like it's something you installed:
http://www.winfix.com/default.htm


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"Bredf331" <Bredf331@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:A22857A5-086B-4CCE-9D62-DF17C0A967D6@microsoft.com...
> In the last couple of days, a popup called Winfix comes up and it has the
> appearance of being a Windows program. But I am suspicious so I closed
> it.
> Am I correct in thinking it is not a safe and legitimate program? When I
> run
> Ad-Aware it picks up cookies as critical elements - do I have spyware ??

 

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Hi,

Winfix is a legitimate program.
WinFix Home Page
http://www.winfix.com/

Winfixer 2005 is malware.
winfixer2005 and winantispyware2005 popups 🙁
http://www.cybertechhelp.com/forums/showthread.php?s=1ad727e8f986120a06d9fbc254ab3fbe&p=440556#post440556

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Bredf331 wrote:
> In the last couple of days, a popup called Winfix comes
> up and it has the appearance of being a Windows program.
> But I am suspicious so I closed it. Am I correct in
> thinking it is not a safe and legitimate program? When I
> run Ad-Aware it picks up cookies as critical elements -
> do I have spyware ??