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Post by Knight of Lodis on Jan 16, 2004 8:04:17 GMT -5
My brother got a virus on our computer the other day and I have been having some trouble. Norton removed the virus, but the ads still keep coming. I ran "Ad-aware" and got rid of them. As soon as I restart my computer, however; they come back. I even went as far as deleting it in the register. I could use some help with permanently removing the ad programs. If someone has a better "get rid of ads" program or knows what I can do please post.
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Post by Gustave on Jan 16, 2004 23:10:44 GMT -5
I got a virus the other day too, probably as a result of my AOL account getting hacked. Damn fools sent 50 e-mails through my account and aol called us up and said we could be in legal trouble if i didn't stop sending out ads...lol...we told em it wasn't me and they were like whoops.
As for ads, sorry. The only success i have found in WindowsXP is closing winservn.exe, dunno if it's important, but it ran in background and was screwing with my system.
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Post by DRottenI on Jan 17, 2004 0:08:52 GMT -5
Gustave uses AOL  I feel sorry for you ;D I have yet to have a virus but my computer has had a hell of alot of problems, but I would run a system restore and it would fix everything |
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Post by Gustave on Jan 17, 2004 8:47:35 GMT -5
I tried to delete Internet Explorer, but now there seems to be some embedded IE programs...if i don't have AOL up and try to open a link, through AIM for example, IE will always pop up.
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Post by Sokar468 on Jan 17, 2004 11:21:01 GMT -5
Hmmmm... Sounds like an imminent problem. What exactly did you guys do to trigger these ads, so that I don't get them?
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Post by DRottenI on Jan 17, 2004 15:28:41 GMT -5
It mainly comes from programs like Kazaa. Kazaa suposedly downloads spy ware to your computer with you knowing it |
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Post by Ghosty on Jan 17, 2004 17:15:31 GMT -5
If you use Kazaa Lite it has almost no (i think none but hey... you never know) spybots and ads so i strongly reccommend switching to that if you use another thing like regular kazaa or morpheus.
As for getting rid of ads, i've heard good stuff about ad-aware, but I use spybot myself and haven't had a problem yet. Maybe you should try that if ad-aware isn't working.
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Post by Jaggy on Jan 17, 2004 20:24:01 GMT -5
Yes, Kazaa Lite is better. It has no ads or spyware and blah blah blah. Besides, it has these extra features that're great.
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Post by Gustave on Jan 17, 2004 22:19:13 GMT -5
I have neither Kazaa, Kazaa Light, or Morpheus. Yuck, i may be in trouble.
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Post by Knight of Lodis on Jan 18, 2004 1:23:47 GMT -5
Well i got rid of all the spyware but I still get norton pop-ups saying it deleted the virus. Not much I can do for now.
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Post by Gustave on Jan 20, 2004 20:28:24 GMT -5
Does anyone have suggestions on getting rid of spyware? I'm not sure i have it, but just in case.
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Post by Knight of Lodis on Jan 20, 2004 22:11:35 GMT -5
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Post by Ghosty on Jan 22, 2004 23:46:26 GMT -5
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Post by mech on Jan 23, 2004 1:28:15 GMT -5
I've got Kazaa Lite and I've been getting some popups lately. The kind of popups you don't want people to see on your computer screen...
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Post by Ghosty on Jan 23, 2004 2:41:30 GMT -5
I've got Kazaa Lite and I've been getting some popups lately. The kind of popups you don't want people to see on your computer screen... heh, i sacrificed privacy for pop-ups with my google toolbar. 10,000 pop-ups blocked and counting.... |
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I feel sorry for you ;D I have yet to have a virus but my computer has had a hell of alot of problems, but I would run a system restore and it would fix everything
