pop ups

[tagg]

I have been plagued with these anoying pop ups recently they are manly ads for ring tones and spyware,( am running pop up stoppers they are not working these pop ups just by pass the program, i have deleted all my temp internet files and cookies, did a virus scan no good, used search and destroy and trojan remover no joy, used hi jack this can not see any problems,

These things are driving me mad, has anyone got any idea's on how to sort this problem out ??

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[joezep]

Try vundofix and smitfraudfix run them in safe mode. A good idea is to delete all your restore points first.

Hope that helps
joezep

[tagg]

did that mate no luck still getting the stupid pop ups friggen pain in the butt

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[crunchie]

Download HijackThis from Download it to your desktop and NOT a temporary folder.
Start HJT & press the "Do a system scan and save a log file" button. When the scan is finished a window will pop up giving you the option of where to save it. Save it to desktop where it is easy to access. Open the log file and copy the entire contents of the file & paste it into the body of your post. DO NOT FIX ANYTHING YET. Most of what is there is necessary for the running of your system.

[ssrattus]

Please don't Hijack a thread, if you have a problem start your own thread.

New thread started for the Hijacker here:

Next time will probably just delete the offending posts.

[ssrattus]

did that mate no luck still getting the stupid pop ups friggen pain in the butt

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Just to be certain.... are they html type pop ups or plain text? Years ago Win XP used to by default leave the messenger service on and you will get pop ups that way, they are plain text and have something like messenger service title. XP SP2 changed the default to off.

The messenger service has nothing to do with Windows Messenger, it is meant to be used by a sys admin to send messages over a corp network.

Click Start then Run... and type in services.msc then press enter, scroll down to Messenger and see if it is disabled.

[ssrattus]

You could give Ultimate Troubleshooter a go. It will list all the running processes and give advice on if it is OK to have or not. Any that it does not know do a search in an online process library to check.


password TWD07

There are later versions about, but rapidshare appears to be down at the moment...

Process Libraries:

[tagg]

Thanks ssrattus, yea did all the hijackthis stuff no good and they were html popups. i used a program called counter spy and that seems to have fixed the problem so far.

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[BCNZ]

I'm guessing you are running IE... awful piece of cr@p.

If you run Firefox, it stops all pop-ups, and gives you the option to open them if you need to.

Already built in - no extra software required.

Ideas doesn't have an apostrophe :P