Recently,

When I have been shutting down my computer, an end program screen for something called foster parent comes up. what is this?

Hello wakkoguy and welcome to BC.

Thats a new one. What is your operating system?

Hi Leurgy!
I don't know about wakkoguy but I'm experiencing the same behavior with W2000.
Any idea?

Is it listed in Add/Remove programs? Do you have access to a 98 or XP machine?

I want to revive this thread because I was "infected" with Foster Parent until today on my own computer. I run XPsp2.

The program is NOT visible on Add/Remove Programs; it can't be found by searching your system (not hidden files, not anything) for "foster", "parent", "fp" or any combination thereof; it doesn't show up on any startups lists nor in the task manager. No antivirus or malware cleaner will detect it - NONE. I have them all.

Pretty much the only place it exists is in your registry.

Run regedit and navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Explorer Bars. Look through there for an entry where the data reads "foster parent". Delete that entry.

Or just search your entire registry for the word "foster"; that'll turn it up too.

Hi there!
This week I noticed also this Foster Parent thing on my computer, indeed - I saw it before shutting it down.
I looked through the registry as it explained, but I couldn't find anything about this thing!
Is there anything to do about it?

WinXP