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Posted by Dred_furst on Sun Jan 2nd at 10:34am 2005

weird, i must say, sounds like some shady spyware, ive seen one that completely replaces iexplore.exe with a malformed patched version that has a malicious popups and spyware, Try deleting iexplore.exe only if your on winxp and have your winxp disk ready for it to tell you a critical part of windows is missing, please insert recovery disk to continue...

It will then replace iexplore.exe with a sane version well, it did for me

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Posted by Jinx on Sun Jan 2nd at 11:13am 2005

Ad-Aware and Spybot are okay, but Spy Sweeper is a lot better. Grab the demo on Webroot's website and see if it finds anything.

Maybe it was some sort of weird fluke or coincidence, though... perhaps a site you visited previously initiated the popup, but it didn't come until later for some reason?!

A popup-blocker won't always stop adware-generated popups. Even if it does, you basically have your computer fighting itself (two programs wasting resources to counter each other), it's much better to just get rid of the adware.

Also, Service Pack 2 is the devil.





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Posted by Myrk- on Sun Jan 2nd at 11:17am 2005

? quoting G.Ballblue
Were you any where else on the internet before the snarkpit?

G.Ballblue Holmes at work

I like service pack 2... not that it does anything apart from annoy me, but the only thing I have noticed is that lanning PC's is much much easier now.

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Posted by Jinx on Sun Jan 2nd at 11:28am 2005

My problem is that it a) is stupid and doesn't recognize the other firewall and antivirus that I have b) the firewall keeps turning itself on again for no reason. I did like the popup blocker, though.

The BIG problem, though- on this pc it caused MAJOR problems. As in, I could not open My Computer without the window freezing and me having to reboot. Nor could I access any optical drives, even cd-rippers wouldn't work. I also got a black screen for about 45 seconds before Windows would boot. Basically SP2 totally f**ked up my pc...





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Posted by SuperCobra on Sun Jan 2nd at 11:32am 2005

I dont seem to be getting any pop ups do u have the latest windows updates?

Try getting firefox that is what I use.




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Posted by SuperCobra on Sun Jan 2nd at 11:35am 2005

I would also maybe suggest spyware doctor I believe it is called.
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Posted by xconspirisist on Sun Jan 2nd at 12:22pm 2005

Firefox would supprot the falling snark's if the script was standards compliant. MSIE sports many many ugly features and allows for very bloated and buggy code.

Javascript is eveil I tell's you. [addsig]



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Posted by Dark|Killer on Sun Jan 2nd at 12:24pm 2005

i never got a pop up in this forum before...but i do believe that hotbar AND websearch bar ARE Spywares !!! [addsig]



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Posted by fraggard on Sun Jan 2nd at 12:31pm 2005

? quote:
Firefox would supprot the falling snark's if the script was standards compliant.


I was not aware that there were standards for javascript?! You have anything to back that up?




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Posted by mazemaster on Sun Jan 2nd at 12:33pm 2005

On NPR the other day I heard that they did a study of a bunch of anti-spyware tools both free and commercial like adaware, spybot, norton, etc. They found that the _best_ program (i think it might have been spysweeper) only found about 50% of the spyware. The best of the other programs (adaware, spybot, etc) were finding around 30-40%, and the average was like 15%.

So basically the message is no anti-spyware tool can find all the spyware, and the best way to stay clean is to use a bunch of different tools. [addsig]



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Posted by Orpheus on Sun Jan 2nd at 12:35pm 2005

another NPR fan..

i heard that discussion as well my friend

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Posted by Jinx on Sun Jan 2nd at 1:29pm 2005

Yeah, at MicroCenter we recommend Spy Sweeper since it's the best rated and because we've all had the best luck with it ourselves. But we usually tell people to get Ad-Aware and Spybot, too, since they are free and will probably get a few other things. I've had situations where Spy Sweeper was the only thing that would be able to actually remove something; sometimes Ad-Aware will lock up on you :/

My friend Mario has tried a ton of these and has a website with info on the different programs:

http://www.mariosdomain.com

He despises teh spyware lol






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