Sunday, October 9, 2011

How to Remove Etype Chat Spam



Etype is an application that auto corrects spellings and acts as a dictionary or thesaurus. It auto corrects or suggests words that you are about to type. This program would have been great if it does not spam your facebook friends with links on the chatbox. Etype is a good software employing bad schemes to make a name for itself.

Etype is displayed in your chatbox as:

Download http://etype1.com/f.php?FrGWiA here

If you click on the link, you will be taken to a download site and if you download and install it, your antivirus software will post an alert for potentially malicious software. This generally happens if your antivirus software is up to date.

After installation, etype will still pester you by posting pop ups and would even make you share etype on facebook in order to get a free upgrade.

Here is what the pop up image looks like

etype spam

To uninstall etype do the following steps:

1. Go to control panel and click on uninstall programs

2. look for the etype program and click uninstall

3. Restart the your computer

If the etype program does not show on your list do the following:

1. Go to C:Users(user name)AppDataRoamingeTypeeTypeUninstall.exe

2. It will guide you through the uninstall process.

3. Restart your PC.

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