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The above words and others appear on my computer as links to various sites clicking on a link again will take you to a different site. Do I have an adware problem or is this on the forum?
And now they are not links, what the f%ck.
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The above words and others appear on my computer as links to various sites clicking on a link again will take you to a different site. Do I have an adware problem or is this on the forum?
Download and run this: http://www.download.com/Ad-Aware-SE-Personal-Edition/3000-8022_4-10045910.html?part=dl-ad-aware&subj=dl&tag=top5
“Ad-Aware is designed to provide advanced protection from known Data-mining, aggressive advertising, Parasites, Scumware, selected traditional Trojans, Dialers, Malware, Browser hijackers, and tracking components.”
Do “perform full system scan” first and it will dig in and find all the crap that’s been secretely dumped on your hard drive and then you can choose which ones you want to get rid of. Thereafter use it weekly but do the “quick scan”.
Download and install Spybot - Search & Destroy:
http://www.download.com/Spybot-Search-Destroy/3000-8022_4-10289035.html?tag=lst-0-1
Between that and Adware you should be able to take care of the problems.
I would definitely use the adware remover noted above, but I would also use spybot search and destroy. Goto www.pcworld.com and do a search for anti-spyware they will give you some great insight into this and review the best adware removers. Also read this article http://www.pcworld.com/howto/article/0,aid,118060,00.asp and others on pcworld.com. hope this helps.
Use Spbot AND Ad-Aware, they complement each other. Make sure you download the correct programs, there is malware with very similar names.
The most important tool though is to immediately stop using Internet Explorer and start using Mozilla Firefox. Once you download it, you’ll never know the difference, but Firefox is WAAAAAAAYYYYYYYY safer. You must use Firefox!!!
I was using both Adware and Spybot S&D and I had to uninstall Spybot. It conflicted sumpin fierce with another program I was running. (I can’t remember which) I do second, er third, the recommendation to run both. I typically do. It’s just I have had some problems with Spybot in the past.
I think I recall Adware complaining about Spybot when I installed it but I haven’t had much of a problem since. I don’t think I’ve ever run into problems with them quarrantining the same files, but it’s nice because one always seems to find stuff the other misses. I don’t leave either running, just run them when I need to clean things up. So long as they’re not running at the same time I wouldn’t worry about it. Of course, I get little spyware to speak of anyway now that I run Firefox, Mozilla or Opera on all my machines and Linux on my home PCs.
Ran spybot, I hadn’t updated it in a while, that seemed to work. I will check into adaware. And now that the Mac Mini is out I may be going mac after the taxes come back. I can’t run Firefox on my ISP, yeah I need to change that. Anyway thanks for the advice I think I have it cleaned up for a while.
If that doesn’t work, search for Tom Coyote’s forum (something like that). Helpful chaps who will walk you thru diagnosis and chopping out the crap. Run a program called “hijackthis”…
I’ve done it 2x now. Works great.
“I can’t run Firefox on my ISP”
And how is your ISP blocking you? There should be no reason for them to block you - and it’s more work to block than to allow anyway.
If they are really blocking Firefox (which I doubt - I bet that is just a dumb helpdesk person who told you that) then run Firefox in IE mode - they will never know.
It states on th,e web page under browsers that it will support only IE. If I run firefox instead Netzero exits and boots me off. If I run firefox with IE up it is 3 times slower than just IE. Don’t ask me why, but they are doing it. Maybe Microsoft gave them their startup cash
The only way for a server to determine which browser has been used is by reading the user agent value from the HTTP request header.
You can run FireFox and download some software that changes your HTTP header so that a different “user agent” value is specified. As a result, your ISP will detect all your HTTP requests as if you are using I.E.
I don’t know the name of this utility but I have seen it before. You can probably google to find it.
Since I have used FireFox all my adverts problems became history.
Try MS Spyware removal program… MS AntiSpyware
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx
For now it’s free… It’s referred to as a Beta version, but from what I have read it actually simply Giant AS software retitled… which actually makes it not much of a Beta product.
The best part of this MS spyware removal software is that it prevents spyware from accession your system from the beginning… it works in real-time.
I’ve been using it for only a few days (I think it’s only been out for about a week - if memory is correct)… ran it, and it found spyware that both current versions of Sypbot and Ad-Aware didn’t find.
I’d recommend it be downloaded and used… works pretty good from what I can tell.
FWIW Joe Moya