My computer got attacked again

[TexasNative]

When I boot up the computer an ad window pops up. Minutes later another one appears. And so on. And so on.

I'm running SpyBot, Adaware, and Symantec Anti-Virus. None of these seem to solve the problem.

Advise?

Man, this spam/pop-up crap seems to be getting worse and worse.

[rsal]

I had the same problem man I just reformatted my hard drive and it fixed it.

[Lump of Coal]

format

Sith

[theman21]

omg dont format your PC!

...look a very easy way(albeit gimped way) to fix these problems if you're using WinXP, is to use the "System Restore" Wizard, and just go back to a date where the problem(s) cease to exist.

After you do that, USE FIREFOX!!!! Don't you people understand that 95%-100% of the crappy trojan/spywares are written for IE code? I've YET to get anything using Firefox. Please, you'll thank yourself: http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/

[Blizz™]

I made the switch to Firefox.......trust me....you'd be doing yourself a huge favor.

[FoldedSpace]

Sygate has a decent free firewall available. Zone Alarm, at least the free one, is total crap. I've never had a problem using IE. Google Toolbar stops 99 percent of the popups and they are supposed to integrate a GMail alert into it soon. Spybot has a new version out...if the version you are currently using keeps saying there are no new updates, your version is out of date and useless. Spybot must be updated to be useful. Norton Anti-virus is a good product, if you update it (or have it update) once a week. Windows update can be automated on Windows 2000 (Service Pack 4) and Windows XP. Set it to automatically download and install new updates everyday.

[SpursStalker]

Originally Posted by FoldedSpace

Zone Alarm, at least the free one, is total crap. I've never had a problem using IE.

I use the free version of Zone Alarm and absolutely love it, caught 8 attacks on my computer before my own firewall even detected it. Spybot & Destroy IMHO sucks........but to each his own I suppose. AVG is not a bad program either, along with that and some of what FS stated is what I use and have NO problem whatsoever

Just MY 2 cents

[austin_spurs_fan]

its an STD..stp looking at porn

[theman21]

FS I believe what he has is a hijacker variant virus....which as stated above is found most often from porn sites.

In all fairness towards free speech, as I stated before...use Firefox and you can surf freely, even pron sites you shouldn't be looking at.

Hijacker viruses are built to run on IE code....I've yet to come across one that runs on Mozilla.

This is the very reason Mac users don't worry about viruses, etc as much....because mostly they're coded to work on Windows and IE only.

[snybas]

I had the same problem. I fixed it by doing a system recovery. Damn Internet Explorer.

[Spurs21 Cowboys21]

Originally Posted by theman21

omg dont format your PC!

...look a very easy way(albeit gimped way) to fix these problems if you're using WinXP, is to use the "System Restore" Wizard, and just go back to a date where the problem(s) cease to exist.

After you do that, USE FIREFOX!!!! Don't you people understand that 95%-100% of the crappy trojan/spywares are written for IE code? I've YET to get anything using Firefox. Please, you'll thank yourself: http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/

Originally Posted by theman21

FS I believe what he has is a hijacker variant virus....which as stated above is found most often from porn sites.

In all fairness towards free speech, as I stated before...use Firefox and you can surf freely, even pron sites you shouldn't be looking at.

Hijacker viruses are built to run on IE code....I've yet to come across one that runs on Mozilla.

This is the very reason Mac users don't worry about viruses, etc as much....because mostly they're coded to work on Windows and IE only.

TexasNative... do what theman21 said. He knows what he's talking about.

[SpursStalker]

Originally Posted by Spurs21 Cowboys22

TexasNative... do what theman21 said. He knows what he's talking about.

GOD has spoken!!

[snybas]

Originally Posted by theman21

FS I believe what he has is a hijacker variant virus....which as stated above is found most often from porn sites.

In all fairness towards free speech, as I stated before...use Firefox and you can surf freely, even pron sites you shouldn't be looking at.

Hijacker viruses are built to run on IE code....I've yet to come across one that runs on Mozilla.

This is the very reason Mac users don't worry about viruses, etc as much....because mostly they're coded to work on Windows and IE only.

I never go on to porn sites so how did I get the virus?

[Spurs21 Cowboys21]

Originally Posted by SpursStalker

GOD has spoken!!

[Blizz™]

Originally Posted by snybas

I never go on to porn sites so how did I get the virus?

well it's not JUST pron sites. get firefox, a good router/firewall, spybot S&D and AVG and update them and run them once a week. also, turn off messenger service and KEEP XP UPDATED.

[DizzG]

stop using IE now!

Firefox is awesome. I use it 99% of the time

my wife still uses IE and I had to deal with a spyware prob a few weeks back.

that stuff never reallly happens with mozilla

[ZStomp]

What's wrong with IE?

What's so special about Firefox???

Just curious...

[snybas]

Originally Posted by Blizz™

well it's not JUST pron sites. get firefox, a good router/firewall, spybot S&D and AVG and update them and run them once a week. also, turn off messenger service and KEEP XP UPDATED.

How do you turn off messenger service?

[JamesR]

Originally Posted by ZStomp

What's wrong with IE?

What's so special about Firefox???

Just curious...

Mostly that the bulk of viruses/trojans/spyware are built to run off of IE code, not Firefox. So by using Firefox you dont get those things.

[FoldedSpace]

Nothing is wrong with IE. I use it 100 percent of the time. All of the PC's I help administer (over 10,000) use IE 6. I surf wherever I want. Never had a Trojan or a problem. KaZaa gave me a trojan one time, but that was an easy fix. I liked Zone Alarm until it corrupted the network connection on serveral computers belonging to a client of mine. Took me a weekend to recover. Spyware comes from downloading games and free software off the Net 9 times out of 10 like Gator or Wild Tangent.

Browsers are more a matter of taste than anything else.

As far as Anti-Virus protection goes, it has to be updated all the time. Norton releases updates about once a week, usually on Wednesday. If there is a big breakout, more than that. But they are *always* 12-48 hours behind the latest virus. Nature of the biz.

Go to:

http://tomcoyote.com/hjt/

Download Hijack This and read the fourms. You should be able to post your results on the forums:

http://forums.tomcoyote.com/

There are other forums to post your results on...just a matter of Googling them. If it's a Trojan, you need to find out exactly which one it is. Then find the right tool to fix it, assuming there is one.