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by jwagner45

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I'm getting a Wnad error. It says "This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down" - "If the problem persists contact the program vendor". I click on "Close" but the error pops up again at a later time. I use this particular primarily for web surfing. I'm using Windows 98 SE and IE 6.

Does anyone know what WNAD is or better yet where I can find some info on this program so I can fix this problem?

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by rcom

This is an AdWare program (Program) which gets installed when the "Yo Mama, Osama!" game is installed. It is a memory resident application which periodically connects to a webserver to download and display pop-up window advertisements. It creates a registry run key to load itself at startup and does not uninstall itself:

Manual removal
1) Press CTRL-ALT-DEL, select WNAD.EXE, and click END TASK
2) Click START | RUN, type %WINDIR% and hit ENTER
3) Delete the following files (if they exist):

WNAD.EXE
WNAD.DAT
WNAD-UPDATE.EXE

4) Click START | RUN, type REGEDIT and hit ENTER
5) Click on the plus sign next to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
6) Click on the plus sign next to Software
7) Click on the plus sign next to Microsoft
8)Click on the plus sign next to Windows
9) Click on the plus sign next to CurrentVersion
10) Click on the Run folder
11) Click on WNAD on the RIGHT window
12) Hit the DELETE key then hit ENTER
13) Close the REGISTRY EDITOR WINDOW

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