Msn Add-On

I recently installed an add-on for MSN (MSN Polygamy) whiched basically lets you run two accounts at once. But I keep getting this message every 30 minutes or so saying "Please register and pay to gain more features etc. etc. etc.". So I thought **** this, I'm not putting up with this message all the time, so I unistall the add-on through Add/Remove Programs. However the message still persists and I don't know how to get rid, i've ran both spyware and adware searches but both don't fix the problem. So I did a bit of looking around an found this

http://img409.imageshack.us/img409/7720/msnyi8.jpg

Are these two processes normal or should they not be there? End process won't get rid of them. I did a search and found both a located in the Windows Registry, shall I just delete them from there.

What do you suggest? Thanks

 

It seems these are Adware added on from MSN content plus, try right clicking both processes and hit end process tree. It might work it might not, that was the only fix I was able to find in my breif research but, since this is more of Virus, Spyware and Adware issue I think that the Malware part of the forum would be more suited to this cause.

 

End process tree wouldn't work. Wouldn't simply deleting the files in registry work?

 

No.

The registry just contains data not files.

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