AceNotes Free

· Overview ·
· Origins ·
· Distribution ·
· Operation ·
· Detection and Removal ·
· Research ·

Overview

Vendor Notes:

 From the doc: 'If you are looking for a free Personal Information Manager simple to use, flexible enough to let you to store everything you want, and powerful enough to find anything you have stored with a single mouse click, AceNotes Free 2000c is for you! AceNotes Free 2000c uses a unique Tree Style Structure that automatically organizes everything you enter. You can never misplace important facts or data. With its built-in, full function editor, you can control the appearance of your notes as you write. Change fonts, bold, underline, superscript, font color, background color - the same functions you normally use when you write a document. And recovering stored data is a single click away because AceNotes Free 2000c has full search capability. simply type any word the note contains. The mighty search engine goes through all the files in AceNotes Free 2000c and finds it for you! You will never lose information again !'

Category:

Adware: Software that displays popup/popunder ads when the primary user interface is not visible or which do not appear to be assocaited with the product.

Similar Pests:

 Adware

Origins

Author:

 Yan QiQi

Group:

 Aureate Media Corporation

EMail:

 support@thinkingsoft.com

Date of Origin:

 March, 2000

Distribution

Prevalence:
  • AceNotes Free: < 0.00005%
    • More Info

    Clot Factor:
  • AceNotes Free: 3

    • The "Clot Factor" is a measure of how much a pest "gums up" a machine by adding registry entries, files, and directories. As more objects are placed in a machine, manual removal becomes more difficult and more error-prone.

    Growth:
  • AceNotes Free: Insufficient data to report growth
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    Operation

    Platform:

    		 Windows 95/98/ME

    Storage Required:
  • AceNotes Free: at least 1489 KB
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    Detection and Removal

    Automatic Removal:

    PestPatrol detects this.

    PestPatrol removes this.

    Manual Removal:

    		 Follow these steps to remove AceNotes Free from your machine. Begin by backing up your registry and your system, and/or setting a Restore Point, to prevent trouble if you make a mistake.
    Stop Running Processes:

    Kill these running processes with Task Manager:

    Remove AutoRun Reference:

    Go To the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run.
    If you find the value HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\run\acenotes, delete it and reboot the machine immediately.



    Unregister DLLs:

    Unregister these DLLs with Regsvr32, then reboot:

    Clean Registry:

    Remove these registry items (if present) with RegEdit:

    Remove Files:

    Remove these files (if present) with Windows Explorer:

    Remove Directories:

    Remove these directories (if present) with Windows Explorer:

    Research

    File Analyses:

    More Info:
  • AllTheWeb, AltaVista, AOL Search, Ask Jeeves, Google, HotBot, Lycos, LookSmart, MSN, Yahoo!
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    Research By:
  • PestPatrol's Pest Research Center
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    Last Revised:

    		 April 14, 2005