I HATE THIS!!! *yes hibiki i am grumpy again*

[NightShade]

Ok why in hell is it so bad to surf the net anymore. I mean i got so many ad wares i cant get rid of them all. I mean i got one that changes my homepage to its bs crap. I got another one that loves to open my cd rom. Oh i love that one. It really makes me happy to watch my cd rom open by itself. Now i prob going have to buy a damn protection or something. Hell i even turned off my cookies and this crap is giving me hell. Maybe i am a windows xp newb and dont know how to protect myself hell i dont. all i know is. If my cd rom opens by itself one more time I am going to freak out. ****ing bull**** i swear

 

[Hibiki]

Why dont u run something like ad aware and delete the stuff that causes problems

 

[NightShade]

I did. but it seems it keeps coming back. so i will be playing games and bam popup city. get rid of them. they come back. I dont know what from

 

[Hibiki]

then delete any crap u might of downloaded that caused it

 

[NightShade]

If it was that simple i would not be crying like a wuss on here.


This gator crap keeps coming up. wtf is that

 

[Synth]

Be reminded that any program that has free versions, usually asks you to download an ad ware program as well.

Gator, GAIN, etc etc are ad ware programs. delete it, it is the source of your pop up problem

 

[lost]

Heh, don't go on to much porn sites ... that helps

ad-aware 6 is doin the trick for me, don't have much adware (c.q. spyware) ... dunno .. maybe it's me.

 

[NightShade]

shhh dont say p0rn or you will have humpie in here. And i dont go to any i just surf net and get them. then again might be my prob in first place

 

[The Cheese]

CWShredder.exe, it should take care of your browser homepage changing to something other than what you set it to.

StartupList.exe, useful tool for seeing what current processes are running, whats starting up in the start up folder, and the registry.

Among those try Spybot Search and Destroy 1.2, Ad-aware 6, and SpySweeper, just make sure that you update them first. Also there are viruses that will go back to sites and download the spyware again so you might want to run a virus check also. Well that’s all I can think of ATM hope that helps you.

EDIT:

Go to Add/Remove Programs and look for programs that you didn’t install, search C: \ and C: \Program Files for executables, folders, and other files that may look suspicious. Check www.google.com on file names and folders that look suspicious, it is an indispensable tool for telling what is and isn’t spyware.

Also if you happen to find New.Net don’t remove it though Spybot Search and Destroy 1.2, Ad-aware 6, or SpySweeper. Just go to C: \windows or C: \winnt depending on the OS you are running, and check for a file that looks like this “uninstall4_80.exe” its going to be a blue icon. Run that and it will uninstall New.Net correctly.

 

[Deverz]

I use spybot and the google toolbar (For IE) to stop all that **** for me

 

[Kurt`]

http://www.esforces.com/forum/showthread.php?t=37183

Ignore the other people's posts. Their suggestions don't eliminate the source of the problem.

 

[Iyce Da Kidd]

bleh. you must be running some type of p2p program. whether its imesh, kazaa mirc, edonkey, dc++, kazaa lite.. etc. i got the same "cd-rom open site" after i ran imesh for the first time! i quickly deleted it and noticed i had that kind-of stuff on my comp. i just ran a "get rid of ads here!" program and i guess i choose the right one.

 

[Gonadz]

Hahaha

Yea, what kurt said, the "source" of the problem isnt helped by removing spyware

 

[DJ-Ready]

http://www.esforces.com/forum/showthread.php?t=37183

Ignore the other people's posts. Their suggestions don't eliminate the source of the problem.

hehe, right

and lol @ Ice Man about that cdrom opening site haha

 

[Kurt`]

hehe, right

and lol @ Ice Man about that cdrom opening site haha

That cd-rom opening site exploits ActiveX, the same thing used to download and install spyware on your computer via Internet Explorer. lol

 

[Eon]

IE = evol

Kurt convinced me to download Mozilla and it will help you lose weight too!!111

er..adware..

 

[NightShade]

i had 518 ad wares/spy ware on my comp.
Did a virus scan had none
So i got rid of all but 48 seems i cant get rid of them. But pops ups are not as bad right now. thx for all the help.



Also how do i get rid of ie and make this firebird thing my main user? Ie caused me to many problems and i sick of it

 

[Kurt`]

In Firebird/Firefox:

Tools->Options-> then click Set as Default Browser

If it doesn't work, you may need to reboot. Also, IE is gonna be all screaming at you and crap about not being the default browser anymore. So you can tell it to screw.

You may also want to go Tools->Options->Downloads and change the default action for certain file types. Like, instead of opening MPG movies, have it prompt you to save them to disk, etc.

If you delete any action for a file type, the next time you download a file of that type, it will ask you what you want to do.

All your IE favorites should be imported too. ^_^

Now as for that remaining spyware:

See what is loading when Windows starts:
Start->Run->"msconfig"->Startup Tab

Bring up your task manager, and click the Processes tab. If you see something funky and you don't know what it is, search for the filename on google.com.

Example: "gator.exe"

It should link you to sites with removal instructions for the remaining spyware.

 

[Evil_Trunks]

Yeh, first step to a better internet life is toss IE into the trash, where it belongs.

I have been using Firebird/Firefox for a while now and never had any problems with it.

 

[Jaredster]

try Spy Sweeper.Spy Sweeper