Bloody adware!

Post by **Ezekiel** » Sat Dec 17, 2005 1:47 pm

This really is taking the piss - after months of having a clean system I now have what is quite possibly the most irritating form of adware to date: adware that advertises software to get rid of adware. Thank god I'm formatting tomorrow. :icon33:

Post by **Iccy** » Sat Dec 17, 2005 1:54 pm

Google : MS Spyware

Hijack this

Spybot SD

Adaware

http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Autoruns.html

Post by **mik0rs** » Sat Dec 17, 2005 1:56 pm

Is it in the form of pop-up ads or a message from the taskbar?

Btw, run Ad-Aware, Spybot and maybe install MS Antispyware.

Post by **Survivor** » Sat Dec 17, 2005 1:58 pm

Ah, the message from the taskbar one is a right down bastard to remove.

Post by **4days** » Sat Dec 17, 2005 2:01 pm

Ezekiel wrote:Thank god I'm formatting tomorrow. :icon33:

you were doing that anyway right? not worth it for a bit of spyware, just run the stuff mikors/iccy said and it'll go away.

Post by **Ezekiel** » Sat Dec 17, 2005 2:02 pm

MS anti spyware doesn't find it, neither does spybot, AVG or Ad-Aware. I'll just nuke it along with everything else.

4days wrote:you were doing that anyway right? not worth it for a bit of spyware, just run the stuff mikors/iccy said and it'll go away.

Yeah, upgrading the PC tomorrow, so I saw little point in keeping all of my old stuff. If I needed it I'd have backed it off onto a CD by now.

Post by **farad** » Sat Dec 17, 2005 2:06 pm

http://castlecops.com/forums.html

...bookmark...

Post by **Freakaloin** » Sat Dec 17, 2005 2:11 pm

u must go to really fucked up web pages...u sound like a moron...ad-aware stops everything for me...but i'm not a fucking internet wierdo...

Post by **mik0rs** » Sat Dec 17, 2005 2:18 pm

Survivor wrote:Ah, the message from the taskbar one is a right down bastard to remove.

If it's SpyAxe you can get a self-extracting zip file called SmitRem, you run the "runThis.bat" or something self-explanatory like that during safe-mode and that gets rid of it.

Post by **Geebs** » Sat Dec 17, 2005 2:22 pm

http://www.apple.com

Post by **Survivor** » Sat Dec 17, 2005 2:39 pm

mik0rs wrote:
Survivor wrote:Ah, the message from the taskbar one is a right down bastard to remove.
If it's SpyAxe you can get a self-extracting zip file called SmitRem, you run the "runThis.bat" or something self-explanatory like that during safe-mode and that gets rid of it.

The one from the taskbar i from time to time get infected with has 'baloon' in it. First time took me 3 hours to find all of it, since then know how to do it in 10 minutes.

Post by **mik0rs** » Sat Dec 17, 2005 2:42 pm

If you can get hold of the batch file then that'll do it even quicker. How'd you get it (SpyAxe I mean)? What sites dyou think might have it? I've never had any significant spyware before, much less the the taskbar type.

Post by **Survivor** » Sat Dec 17, 2005 2:50 pm

I have absolutely no idea. Might be some dodgy file someone sends me once in a while, i don't care anymore since 10 minutes isn't that much.

Post by **mik0rs** » Sat Dec 17, 2005 3:02 pm

Fair enough. I'm interested as to how some people seem to be magnetically attracted to spyware, particularly the plonkers who get their computers riddled with it. Too many searches for "FREE FREE FREE RINGTONES AND MUSIC FREE FREE!!!111" or something I guess.

Post by **Survivor** » Sat Dec 17, 2005 3:10 pm

I think it goes like this

download free *emoticons/songs/ringtones/weatherchecker*---> popups which display more free stuff, and well it goes downhill from there on.

I have done my fair share of cleaning up pcs abundant with the stuff and usually it comes from letting people on who don't own that specific pc.

Post by **mik0rs** » Sat Dec 17, 2005 3:15 pm

Yeah course, that's why I let practically no-one near my PC unless I'm there. It's just baffling how people can't say no and just close the window instead of clicking the ads, once is understandable, ten times or more is moronic.

Post by **seremtan** » Sat Dec 17, 2005 3:57 pm

FF + Noscript =

Bloody adware!

Bloody adware!

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