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Old 07-09-2005, 09:33 PM
T R
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Default Need Help With Pop Ups Spyware!!!

I am running both the Google toolbar pop-up blocker and the one that I am
pretty sure is part of Internet Explorer. I am running Spybot S&D, Ad Aware
and just bought ScanSpyware and ran it. I am still having terrible trouble
with pop ups even with all of this in place. Just closed 15 windows. I have
not had this problem until recently so I must have accidentally allowed
something in that is giving ,me trouble. Someone please help!!! What
should I do????

TR



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Old 07-10-2005, 06:31 AM
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Default Re: Need Help With Pop Ups Spyware!!!

T R wrote:
> I am running both the Google toolbar pop-up blocker and the one that I am
> pretty sure is part of Internet Explorer. I am running Spybot S&D, Ad Aware
> and just bought ScanSpyware and ran it. I am still having terrible trouble
> with pop ups even with all of this in place. Just closed 15 windows. I have
> not had this problem until recently so I must have accidentally allowed
> something in that is giving ,me trouble. Someone please help!!! What
> should I do????
>
> TR
>
>

Have you used the BHO feature in Spybot advanced mode? it may be there,
hard to tell from nfo provided.

Check loaded ActiveX controls with Spybot advanced mode, make sure you
know what controls are loaded.

There are a number of system checks and fixes in Spybot that require
advanced mode. I suspect it is one of the two above. I saw a new
www.web.search yesterday on a friends machine that utilized a BHO
(browser helper object (You feel helped?))

Have you run an AV scan? There are some worm and Trojan exploits that
also do this.

Best bet however is not to use IE as default browser. Firefox
www.mozilla.org doesn't do ActiveX and avoids many of those type
exploits. Do not try to uninstall IE as it is needed by the system, but
firefox will avoid such things usually.

Winged

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Old 07-10-2005, 01:30 PM
David H. Lipman
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Default Re: Need Help With Pop Ups Spyware!!!

From: "T R" <tr@aol.com>

| I am running both the Google toolbar pop-up blocker and the one that I am
| pretty sure is part of Internet Explorer. I am running Spybot S&D, Ad Aware
| and just bought ScanSpyware and ran it. I am still having terrible trouble
| with pop ups even with all of this in place. Just closed 15 windows. I have
| not had this problem until recently so I must have accidentally allowed
| something in that is giving ,me trouble. Someone please help!!! What
| should I do????
|
| TR
|

ScanSpyware is listedas a Rogue application !
http://www.spywarewarrior.com/rogue_anti-spyware.htm

Next time check with Spyware Warrior before purchasing or downloading anti spyware.

Download and execute BHODemon as the this could be a Browser Helper Object.
http://www.definitivesolutions.com/bhodemon.htm

You have also not provided the versions of the software used.

Ad-aware should be Ad-aware SE v1.06 and SpyBot S&D should be v1.4.

I also suggest the following...



Download MULTI_AV.EXE from the URL --
http://www.ik-cs.com/programs/virtools/Multi_AV.exe

It is a self-extracting ZIP file that contains the Kixtart Script Interpreter {
http://kixtart.org Kixtart is CareWare } three batch files, five Kixtart scripts, one Link
(.LNK) file, this PDF instruction file and two utilities; UNZIP.EXE and WGET.EXE. It will
simplify the process of using; Sophos, Trend and McAfee Anti Virus Command Line Scanners to
remove
viruses and various other malware.

C:\AV-CLS\StartMenu.BAT -- { or Double-click on 'Start Menu' in C:\AV-CLS}
This will bring up the initial menu of choices and should be executed in Normal Mode. This
way all the components can be downloaded from each AV vendor’s web site.
The choices are; Sophos, Trend, McAfee, Exit the menu and Reboot the PC.

You can choose to go to each menu item and just download the needed files or you can
download the files and perform a scan in Normal Mode. Once you have downloaded the files
needed for each scanner you want to use, you should reboot the PC into Safe Mode [F8 key
during boot] and re-run the menu again and choose which scanner you want to run in Safe
Mode. It is suggested to run the scanners in both Safe Mode and Normal Mode.

When the menu is displayed hitting 'H' or 'h' will bring up a more comprehensive PDF help
file.

To use this utility, perform the following...
Execute; Multi_AV.exe { Note: You must use the default folder C:\AV-CLS }
Choose; Unzip
Choose; Close

Execute; C:\AV-CLS\StartMenu.BAT
{ or Double-click on 'Start Menu' in C:\AV-CLS }

NOTE: You may have to disable your software FireWall or allow WGET.EXE and/or FTP.EXE to go
through your FireWall to allow them to download the needed AV vendor related files.

* * * Please report back your results * * *

--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm



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Old 07-11-2005, 02:03 AM
KH
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Default Re: Need Help With Pop Ups Spyware!!!

First, make sure all of your anti-spyware software are updated. Once you
have done that, run all the scans, remove anything they detect. Also, look
into Microsoft AntiSpyware (formally GIANT antispyware), it's free for now
and does a good removal job of the spyware it finds.

If your willing to pay some money, buy spyware doctor or Webroot's
Anti-spyware (Forgot the name)

Also, it might not be spyware, but trojans that are causing this. Make sure
your antivirus is updated and run it. If you don't have one, Avast! and AVG
personal use editions are free and are available at download.com.

Finally, dump IE, and get a different browser. Netscape or Firefox will
work, both don't use activeX controls and both are free
Hope this helps
"T R" <tr@aol.com> wrote in message news:apXze.3745$Zt.830@okepread05...
>I am running both the Google toolbar pop-up blocker and the one that I am
>pretty sure is part of Internet Explorer. I am running Spybot S&D, Ad
>Aware and just bought ScanSpyware and ran it. I am still having terrible
>trouble with pop ups even with all of this in place. Just closed 15
>windows. I have not had this problem until recently so I must have
>accidentally allowed something in that is giving ,me trouble. Someone
>please help!!! What should I do????
>
> TR
>




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Old 07-11-2005, 04:25 AM
T R
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Default Re: Need Help With Pop Ups Spyware!!!

I got it figured out. I had EliteToolBar installed on my system somehow,
and it wreaked HAVOC. I downloaded and ran ETRemover ver2 from
http://www.simplytech.it/ETRemover/ and it worked. Thanks for the advice
all!!

TR

"T R" <tr@aol.com> wrote in message news:apXze.3745$Zt.830@okepread05...
>I am running both the Google toolbar pop-up blocker and the one that I am
>pretty sure is part of Internet Explorer. I am running Spybot S&D, Ad
>Aware and just bought ScanSpyware and ran it. I am still having terrible
>trouble with pop ups even with all of this in place. Just closed 15
>windows. I have not had this problem until recently so I must have
>accidentally allowed something in that is giving ,me trouble. Someone
>please help!!! What should I do????
>
> TR
>




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