text: what's up with mirar? and how do i safely get rid of it? i've came down with a pain in the behind adware infection known as mirar. even though adaware detected and removed it, it has a very painful side effect:it killed winsock when removed. so, i did a restore back to before i removed it. is there a dedicated application to remove it without the winsock corruption? or am i going to have to format? download from http://www.ewido.net   this is an excellent free program that will remove this adware.  ewido was in germany and sold to "avg", out of prague.    scans all 195,000 objects in my system.  when you download you get the full version with a background scanner and auto updates.    if you don't purhcase in 30 days the program becomes free.  they just remove the background scanner and the auto updates.  no problem you update on a manual basis.    i use this program with http://www.avast.com avast antivirus.  there is no conflict as the are compatible.  you can only use one antivirus program or you will have serious problems with your system.  you can use three or four spyware programs without conflict.    avast is free and excellent background scanner and updates two or three times per day.  clinical psychiatrist, france.