hytga Posted May 13, 2006 Report Share Posted May 13, 2006 whew. just got 100 popups closed. My ie is acting nuts. even on legitimate sites it opens popups that tell me to get anti spyware programs. Btw there are more spyware ads about how to get rid of spyware than any other. Anyway. I've tried lavasoft AdAware, scanned the system. didn't find anything worthy except a few cookies. Installed yahoo toolbar, alexa toolbar, google toolbar. All of them supposedly have anti popup stuff. Scanned with yahoo toolbar's antispyware tool. Again worthless. Even IE 6 has anti popup. But i still get them. I even have northon antispam popup blocking enabled. Someone help me get rid of them. It's kindof random though. Sometimes it won't open the whole day. sometimes it starts acting nuts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eva Posted May 14, 2006 Report Share Posted May 14, 2006 (edited) Try ZoneAlarm...it works for me,,, Edited May 14, 2006 by konfetka Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
armjan Posted May 14, 2006 Report Share Posted May 14, 2006 i had bought zone alarm pro, since i was impressed with the freeware, and it slowed my computer to a halt. i have decent specs. i would not recommend buying zonealarm. Its a big disappointment. however, they've got a good return policy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eva Posted May 14, 2006 Report Share Posted May 14, 2006 i am never getting any pop ups from zome alarm,..how would you explain that?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vava Posted May 14, 2006 Report Share Posted May 14, 2006 Once the spyware is on your machine, ZoneAlarm & popup blockers aren't worth squat. Get Spybot by Grisoft, install, and update it's definitions. Backup your registries, or make a system restore point. Restart your machine in safe mode. Run Spybot. Restart again in regular mode, enable the IE popup blocker (you don't need all the other toolbars, some of them may even contain the spyware!) or better yet, use Firefox. Stop surfing for pron/warez Let us know how it goes.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sip Posted May 14, 2006 Report Share Posted May 14, 2006 Spybot is excellent. I think the new one has a feature to show you everything that can be started anywhere in windows. If not (from an earlier post I had made): Autoruns Shows you everything that can start anywhere in windows. It took me 2 hours to find a freaking spyware on a friend's laptop. It had registerd itself as both internet explorer and windows explorer shell extensions ... I would fix IE, reboot, and it would be back! Without this, I wouldn't have found the problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hytga Posted May 14, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 14, 2006 i don't really use ie that often. My main browser is Opera. Though i use IE for site testing and stuff. Thenks for the recomendations Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hytga Posted May 14, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 14, 2006 I didn't know i had this many spywares on my computer. I'ts infested. Spybot did a really great job. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Error 404 Posted December 7, 2006 Report Share Posted December 7, 2006 The best spyware removal tool I think is Spysweeper from webroot. I have tried everything in the past none was so effective as spysweeper. Another effective way of removal of spyware is doing it manually:) But you have to know what are you doing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aSoldier Posted December 7, 2006 Report Share Posted December 7, 2006 (edited) I have a IE popup that arises when I open Firefox, is that weird or what?? I used Spybot/AdAware/AVG. It still persists. Edited December 7, 2006 by aSoldier Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Error 404 Posted December 7, 2006 Report Share Posted December 7, 2006 I have seen a spyware which brings up popups when you doubleclick on anything. So basically your system is infected and it needs some cleanup. Use spysweeper. Although they did something to their software and now when you install it it ads a service to the services and is always active and running in the background even though you shut down the application. The problem is that it remarkably slows down the operation of the system. It is trying to act like an antivirus by checking everything you are trying to access. I would suggest you to install and run it. After you feel that your system is clean just go ahead and uninstall it. P.S. when you install and update spysweeper with the latest definitions just restart your system (keep pressing F8 when it boots) and go to safe mode as an Administrator and run it from there. One more thing. Spysweeper is not a free software anymore. It is around $30 (unless you can find a hacked full version) but it is worth of that amount. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
armjan Posted December 22, 2006 Report Share Posted December 22, 2006 if you're still looking, i was recently pleasantly surprised with mcafee. it doesn't slow down host, and has useful frequent signatures. the 8 in 1 subscription for 1 yr goes for $49, http://us.mcafee.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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