Hewlett-Packard Company ripoff Like to place spy ware on new computers and then offer to sell you services to remove it Palo Alto California

What spyware? I have owned 3 hp computers in the last decade, and IM on my 4th one, including an HP laptop. WHAT spyware are you talking about?

if you want to remove spyware, do a google search for "free spyware removal".

I dont know why you are complaining about something that HP has no control over.

You may not necessarily like the software, but it is not spyware.

It is common for computer makers to have software loaded on the machines that require a purchase or a subscription. Some of the software may be a trial version, while others may require the purchase befor hand.

If you were to do a search on the internet for Wild Tangent, one of the sites offered is pchell. You can thank this site for offering the following information on how to remove the software from your computer:

Manual Removal of Wild Tangent

1) Click on Start, Settings, Control Panel
2) Double-click on Add/Remove Programs
3) Click on the WildTangent selection and Change/Remove, Uninstall, or Add/Remove depending on the operating system. Then follow the onscreen prompts to remove the WT Driver.
4) Now run Hijackthis and fix or Remove the following line (if it exists)

04 - HKLM\..\Run: [WildTangent CDA] RUNDLL32.exe "C:\Program Files\WildTangent\Apps\CDA\cdaEngine0400.dll",cdaEngineMain

You may also have to use Hijackthis and remove the above line if you receive the following error message after using a spyware removal product to try to remove WildTangent

Error Loading C:\Program Files\WildTangent\apps\CDA\cdaEngine0400dll
This specified module could not be found

Follow the rest of these steps if the Control Panel icon or WildTangent folders still remain.

5) Remove the Wild Tangent Driver from the Control Panel if it still exists

Click on Start, Run and type REGEDIT and press Enter
Click on the Plus signs (+) next to the following sections
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
SOFTWARE
Microsoft
Windows
CurrentVersion
Control Panel
Cpls
In the right hand column find the line for wtControlPanel, right click on it and Delete it
Close the Windows Registry
6) Delete the WildTangent folder in Program Files and Windows

Open My Computer
Double-click on Drive C
Double-click on Program Files
Right-click on WildTangent and choose Delete (if the folder exists)
Go back to Drive C and double-click on Windows
Right-click on the WT folder and choose Delete (if the folder exists)
Automatic Removal of Wild Tangent

Click on the following link, download the program and run it to remove WildTangent from your system. This program can be found on the following removal page from WildTangent.