I recently ran SPYBOT and it picked up 3 suspect problems - FAST CLICK - DSO EXPLOIT and WILD TANGENT. Spybot seemed to deal with the first two satisfactorily but on boot up I keep getting a message telling me that Wild Tangent cannot be located and gives the full C\Program\Wild Tangent\Appps\CDA\cdaEngine0400.dll. Checking in the programme files shows that indeed Wild Tangent does not exist but how can I get rid of this rogue programme message? Please !

Check your start up file and remove any reference you find there. Otherwise wait for some of the others here.

First move: startup in Safe Mode and delete the folder:
C:\Program Files\WildTangent\
Then empty the recycle bin.
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Click on Start>Run
Write REGEDIT and press enter.
Search for
CdaEngine
(the search function "find" is in the EDIT item of the pulldown menu)
And delete the line in the right pane when found.
Press F3 to find the next occurrence and delete, go on until no more occurrence is found.
Shutdown, startup normally and check if it's gone. If not, we'll go somewhat deeper.

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This site helped me and cleared up my prob with wildtangent

www.pchell.com./support/wildtangent.shtml

You can also try automatic removal at

http://support.widgames.com/uninstall.html