This is driving me @#@$ crazy!

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  • Centurion
    Confirmed User
    • Dec 2002
    • 6033
    #1

    This is driving me @#@$ crazy!

    Somehow I got those godawful spybots on my computer with all that crappy popup nonsense tht no only is distracting but interrupts the typing of a url or a message!

    I've been using Ad-aware 6.0
    Spybot
    Zdelete
    Stopzilla

    Yet the madness continues! Even keep getting a popup message saying "come get OUR cleaner to get this of these annoying ads!"Yeah..like I'm going to fall for that one.


    Has ANYONE successfully figured out how to get rid of these pricks? How did you do it? There is one program in my startup directory that I have tried to delete that I'm pretty sure is causing this..but everytime I delet (just got a pop up!), everytime I delete it out of the start up folder, within SECONDS, it's back!

    ANY help on this is greatly appreciated! Thanks!
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    • wargames
      Kliris
      • May 2003
      • 10423
      #2
      Try pandasoftware.com or panda anti virus
      ICQ 212-115-582
      Email Steve at Vas Media Group .com

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        • sumphatpimp
          Confirmed User
          • Aug 2002
          • 5235
          #3
          sounds like it is in your registry

          Start>Run>regedit

          run regedit then look at
          Hkey>Local Machine>Software

          then look for the program you are trying to get ride of and
          delete

          hope this helps, I know it is bitch

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            • sumphatpimp
              Confirmed User
              • Aug 2002
              • 5235
              #4
              if you have MicrosoftMessenger turn that bitch OFF !

              that freaking thing is a big security hole, my brother got shit like you have through Messenger

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                • evilregis
                  Confirmed User
                  • Oct 2003
                  • 163
                  #5
                  If the popups you are getting aren't browser windows, but dialog boxes then it's more like Messenger Service.

                  Start -> Run -> services.msc

                  go to the Messenger service, stop it and disable it.
                  eR
                  :: beauty is in the eye of the beer-holder ::

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                    • Centurion
                      Confirmed User
                      • Dec 2002
                      • 6033
                      #6
                      Originally posted by sumphatpimp
                      if you have MicrosoftMessenger turn that bitch OFF !

                      that freaking thing is a big security hole, my brother got shit like you have through Messenger
                      I have it off..pretty sure it's just through the browser as that's the only time it happens..when I have explorer open. (Just gotten take to ebay as I was typing this. WHEE!)

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                        • Centurion
                          Confirmed User
                          • Dec 2002
                          • 6033
                          #7
                          Hokay..I went it and edited the registry getting rid of the program that I thought was creating the popups. I ran Norton's virus program as well.

                          Yet...the popups continue. Ad-aware tells me they are in the cookies. How does one get rid of the index.dat file in your profile/cookies? Or for that matter, how can you get rid of the profile in Win2000 Professional and get a different one thus finally being able to delete all those cookies and index.dat file?

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                            • broke
                              Confirmed User
                              • Aug 2003
                              • 4501
                              #8
                              Originally posted by Centurion

                              Yet...the popups continue. Ad-aware tells me they are in the cookies. How does one get rid of the index.dat file in your profile/cookies? Or for that matter, how can you get rid of the profile in Win2000 Professional and get a different one thus finally being able to delete all those cookies and index.dat file?
                              Format C:\

                              Reinstall.

                              Sorry.
                              Perfect Gonzo

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                                • Poo-Chee
                                  So Fucking Banned
                                  • Sep 2003
                                  • 3560
                                  #9
                                  Originally posted by broke


                                  Format C:\

                                  Reinstall.

                                  Sorry.
                                  I think that it

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