Please Help Me With My ADware Problem

**Issachk** · August 27th, 2005, 03:16 PM

Hello yesterday I accidently downloaded some adware and I have tried about seven differnt programs to remove it and nothing has worked. PLEASE give me some tips to remvove it. I have never gotten a pop-up ad before and now im getting 2 a minute!!!! i know there is several threads allready about this but nothing works...

**Potato** · August 27th, 2005, 03:22 PM

What programs have you tried to get rid of it? Are they updated?

**Issachk** · August 27th, 2005, 03:45 PM

I downloaded them all today and got the adware lastnight. I cant remember them all but what i can remember is The Cleaner, Trojan Searche, Spyware Sweeper and Spybot-Search and Destroy

**Potato** · August 27th, 2005, 04:14 PM

Try Lavasoft's Ad-Aware.

Click here to open download page.

Update it. Run it. Get rid of tons of stuff.

What was the last thing you did before your computer went ad-crazy?

**Issachk** · August 27th, 2005, 04:36 PM

opened the .exe file

**The Hunter** · August 27th, 2005, 04:37 PM

Go to run, type mscongig, and give us a screenshot of the processes running. That should give us a clue as to what is going on. Also what operating system are you running, and do you have all updates?

**bigwilly949** · August 27th, 2005, 04:53 PM

turn off your MS Windows Messenger, the pop-ups are probably exploiting this program

**mfgbypooter** · August 27th, 2005, 05:14 PM

At least with XP you can always do a restore.

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**The Hunter** · August 27th, 2005, 05:16 PM

Not with some of this shit, as to clean some nasties up you have to disable restore.

**mfgbypooter** · August 27th, 2005, 05:27 PM

For the most part you can always choose a previous restore point before the shit happened, restore, then disable restore, reboot, and the shit hidden in the restore files is gone.

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**shawners** · August 27th, 2005, 07:01 PM

My moto. Reformat and start fresh off =)

**riderx** · August 27th, 2005, 07:31 PM

also get winpatrol
it will block shit from startup and u can narrow also bho that is still hanging on to your computer even if other adware software cant detect it.
winpatrol.com
its freeware
trust me it is a good deterent against spyware adware bloatware malware etc
and scotty never lets me down *ruff*
u will hear that sound when he is working