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Mockery
Apr 6th, 2004, 11:07 AM
So I was doing a search on google yesterday and when I loaded one of the pages that came up, it tried loading all sorts of shit. Fortunately, most of it was blocked... but I do believe some spyware got through. Because ever since then, I've been having pop-up ads appearing randomly in places where they just shouldn't be appearing.

Like when I go to livejournal or google, I'll sometimes get pop-ups now. And those sites never have pop-ups.

Now I ran Lavasoft's Ad-aware afterwards, but it didn't seem to find anything new. Any suggestions on how I can find what's causing this annoyance?
ItalianStereotype
Apr 6th, 2004, 11:08 AM
I've had the same damn problem and I'll tell you, I haven't tried voodoo yet.
AChimp
Apr 6th, 2004, 11:11 AM
Try Spybot.

EDIT: And be sure to update to the latest definition files.
Mockery
Apr 6th, 2004, 11:23 AM
Actually, I think I just found it on my own, manually.

I found the pup.exe and over.exe files on my computer, and they're known to cause these exact problems. I also had to go into my computer's registry and delete the pup from there too.

Gonna reboot now. I think I've got the problem taken care of though.
AChimp
Apr 6th, 2004, 11:31 AM
Lazy. >:
Mockery
Apr 6th, 2004, 11:48 AM
Ahhhhh, much better. :)
AChimp
Apr 6th, 2004, 12:12 PM
Not every spyware removal program gets or detects everything, so it's best to use a couple different ones. :(
ArrowX
Apr 6th, 2004, 10:17 PM
theres one on msn that opens youre Disk drives and its driving me nusts and has cost me money:(

I was spinning my desk chair and the towers on the floor and one ofthe drives opened and the chair hit it and smashed the little CD holder deallie out of it. so nowm every day intill i am financially complicated MSN is gettin about 300 HATE MAILS a day
Gurlugon
Apr 6th, 2004, 10:43 PM
theres one on msn that opens youre Disk drives and its driving me nusts and has cost me money:(

I was spinning my desk chair and the towers on the floor and one ofthe drives opened and the chair hit it and smashed the little CD holder deallie out of it. so nowm every day intill i am financially complicated MSN is gettin about 300 HATE MAILS a day

I think it might be the variant that fucks around with keyboard input as well.