I had visited some website that apparently sent a cookie or some type of
malicious program onto my hard drive, so now I have these damn pop-up ads
opening all the time. There is something on my computer that is doing this.
(PC) I went into Windows and deleted all the recent cookies, also deleted
all temporary internet files, etc. I looked around for any exe files that I
did not recognize, but did not see any (then again I may have missed it).
There was a few exe files that DID get dropped on my desktop but I had
deleted them right away. I can't get rid of this thing, it's REALLY
annoying. Boy, if I ever got my hands on anyone who is responsible for this
type of stuff. And then this morning I get a spam email saying "you may
have a pop-up ad virus on your computer, buy our software to make it go
away". Anyway, does anyone have any ideas on how I might go about finding
and getting rid of this annoying problem? The pop up ads only start after I
have opened Explorer. This "virus" had also changed my home page, but I
reset it. thanks.

http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/

download and scan your systm, this is not a cookie, it is some form of the
"gator" software...

Try a tool called Pest Patrol.
It gets rid of an amazing amount of garbage that normal virus tools don't
even look for.
It is about $30-40 US but it is really powerful.
Sorry to gush, but it was the only thing I could find that would get a
hijacker off of my homepage.

www.pestpatrol.com

brotherdave

"WideGlide" wrote in message
t...
I had visited some website that apparently sent a cookie or some type of
malicious program onto my hard drive, so now I have these damn pop-up ads
opening all the time. There is something on my computer that is doing
this.
(PC) I went into Windows and deleted all the recent cookies, also deleted
all temporary internet files, etc. I looked around for any exe files that
I
did not recognize, but did not see any (then again I may have missed it).
There was a few exe files that DID get dropped on my desktop but I had
deleted them right away. I can't get rid of this thing, it's REALLY
annoying. Boy, if I ever got my hands on anyone who is responsible for
this
type of stuff. And then this morning I get a spam email saying "you may
have a pop-up ad virus on your computer, buy our software to make it go
away". Anyway, does anyone have any ideas on how I might go about finding
and getting rid of this annoying problem? The pop up ads only start after
I
have opened Explorer. This "virus" had also changed my home page, but I
reset it. thanks.

"WideGlide" wrote in
t:

I had visited some website that apparently sent a cookie or some type
of malicious program onto my hard drive, so now I have these damn
pop-up ads opening all the time. There is something on my computer
that is doing this. (PC) I went into Windows and deleted all the
recent cookies, also deleted all temporary internet files, etc. I
looked around for any exe files that I did not recognize, but did not
see any (then again I may have missed it). There was a few exe files
that DID get dropped on my desktop but I had deleted them right away.
I can't get rid of this thing, it's REALLY annoying. Boy, if I ever
got my hands on anyone who is responsible for this type of stuff. And
then this morning I get a spam email saying "you may have a pop-up ad
virus on your computer, buy our software to make it go away". Anyway,
does anyone have any ideas on how I might go about finding and getting
rid of this annoying problem? The pop up ads only start after I have
opened Explorer. This "virus" had also changed my home page, but I
reset it. thanks.



Spybot search & destory is free

Sygate personal firewall is free

also realize that IE messenger (an admin function, not to be confused
with Microsoft chatIM's -- see how easy they made it?) should be
disabled. Do a search and learn how to turn off things in windows you
don't need.

I browse with Mozilla (again free)- ditch IE, its a security risk

Best,

Dave

Brotherdave wrote:

Try a tool called Pest Patrol.
It gets rid of an amazing amount of garbage that normal virus tools don't
even look for.
It is about $30-40 US but it is really powerful.
Sorry to gush, but it was the only thing I could find that would get a
hijacker off of my homepage.

Or just use Mozilla Firefox, which is a real browser to start with, and free.

http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox

--
Mark.
http://tranchant.plus.com/

"Jan Saalbach" wrote in message

http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/

download and scan your systm, this is not a cookie, it is some form
of the "gator" software...

Second that.

I just came back from a client that was inundated with pop-ups. His HP 2 GHz
Pentium took about 15 minutes to open up My Computer after boot. Ad-Aware
with the latest definitions file removed 550+ different items related to
spyware.

Needless to say, there was a night-and-day transformation in system
performance.

On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 15:04:38 GMT, "WideGlide"
wrote:

I had visited some website that apparently sent a cookie or some type of
malicious program onto my hard drive, so now I have these damn pop-up ads
opening all the time. There is something on my computer that is doing this.
(PC) I went into Windows and deleted all the recent cookies, also deleted
all temporary internet files, etc. I looked around for any exe files that I
did not recognize, but did not see any (then again I may have missed it).
There was a few exe files that DID get dropped on my desktop but I had
deleted them right away. I can't get rid of this thing, it's REALLY
annoying. Boy, if I ever got my hands on anyone who is responsible for this
type of stuff. And then this morning I get a spam email saying "you may
have a pop-up ad virus on your computer, buy our software to make it go
away". Anyway, does anyone have any ideas on how I might go about finding
and getting rid of this annoying problem? The pop up ads only start after I
have opened Explorer. This "virus" had also changed my home page, but I
reset it. thanks.


We used a free program called winpatrol. It found the 3 files that
were causing the problem. They have names which appear to be a random
mixture of numbers and letters. Any unusual file name that winpatrol
finds, type its name into Google and you should find someone who has
figured out if it is spyware or not. Chuck

The cool 'freebie' is AdAware by Lavasoft. It's highly innocuous
and does it's thing quite well. Download version 6, update the
definition files, and run it. Then toss everything that it moves
to quarantine.

DM


"WideGlide" wrote in message t...
I had visited some website that apparently sent a cookie or some type of
malicious program onto my hard drive, so now I have these damn pop-up ads
opening all the time. There is something on my computer that is doing this.
(PC) I went into Windows and deleted all the recent cookies, also deleted
all temporary internet files, etc. I looked around for any exe files that I
did not recognize, but did not see any (then again I may have missed it).
There was a few exe files that DID get dropped on my desktop but I had
deleted them right away. I can't get rid of this thing, it's REALLY
annoying. Boy, if I ever got my hands on anyone who is responsible for this
type of stuff. And then this morning I get a spam email saying "you may
have a pop-up ad virus on your computer, buy our software to make it go
away". Anyway, does anyone have any ideas on how I might go about finding
and getting rid of this annoying problem? The pop up ads only start after I
have opened Explorer. This "virus" had also changed my home page, but I
reset it. thanks.

So Mozilla is a web browser that you use just like internet explorer?

What do you do? do you go to something like mozilla.com and download
it?

I'm wondering if my isp will recognize it, or if i will have to run a
config of some sort.


You have me curious on this! It's drifting off audio, but people are
so smart around here :-)

(xy) writes:
So Mozilla is a web browser that you use just like internet explorer?

Yes, pretty much. I prefer it to IE.

What do you do? do you go to something like mozilla.com and download
it?

mozilla.org

I'm wondering if my isp will recognize it, or if i will have to run a
config of some sort.

It should work fine.

xy wrote:
So Mozilla is a web browser that you use just like internet explorer?

Yes. It ias basically the successor to the old Netscape, but with some
big differences.

What do you do? do you go to something like mozilla.com and download
it?

To mozilla.org actually.

I'm wondering if my isp will recognize it, or if i will have to run a
config of some sort.

Your ISP doesn't care. All your ISP sees are bits. They don't care where
the bits come from and where they go. They just see your local computer
opening up a connection on port 80 to the machine at sleazyporn.com and
some data coming back, and they just pass it along without paying attention
to what it is.

You can be using Opera, Mozilla, an ancient version of Mosaic or Lynx, and
the ISP doesn't care. You can even open up a DOS window and telnet into
port 80 of the remote server, type commands into it by hand and get HTML
back in your face. It's all just bits.
--scott
--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

In article writes:

I'm wondering if my isp will recognize it, or if i will have to run a
config of some sort.

Your ISP doesn't care. All your ISP sees are bits. They don't care where
the bits come from and where they go.

He might have something set up that ties Explorer, Outlook (express?)
and a dial-up ISP together. He can make it work with any browser, but
he might have to connect to the Internet in a different way than
before.


--
I'm really Mike Rivers )
However, until the spam goes away or Hell freezes over,
lots of IP addresses are blocked from this system. If
you e-mail me and it bounces, use your secret decoder ring
and reach me he double-m-eleven-double-zero at yahoo

In rec.audio.pro, Paul Rubin wrote:

(xy) writes:
So Mozilla is a web browser that you use just like internet explorer?

Or just like Netscape, even.

Yes, pretty much. I prefer it to IE.

What do you do? do you go to something like mozilla.com and download
it?

mozilla.org

I'm wondering if my isp will recognize it, or if i will have to run a
config of some sort.

Nope, nothing at all.

It should work fine.

99.9 percent of the time - I've run into a copule of sites that
object to "Netscape" (what the site sees it as - mozilla.org explains
the connection between Mozilla and Netscape) and say they only run
with IE (perhaps they run Microsoft's proprietary variation of Java).
So you better keep Internet Explorer in case you ever want to apply
online for a job at Home Depot.

-----
http://mindspring.com/~benbradley

http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/

download and scan your systm, this is not a cookie, it is some form of the
"gator" software
-------------------

I downloaded and ran this software... "Ad Aware 6.0", with latest update..
it cured that problem! Thanks. This software supposedly found and deleted
over 600 files on my rig... all kinds of wacky EXE files etc that I have
never noticed. I guess all this junk has somehow gotten dropped on my hard
drive over the past few years and was hiding in places where I often do not
look. I have a big hard drive with a LOT of stuff on it, so it is easy for
such malicious files to get dropped into it without me knowing. I often do
not visit random websites and never open spam email with attachments, etc...
I am pretty careful in general. Not sure how and why so much bad stuff got
onto my hard drive. Well... the Ad Aware thing worked, so I am happy.