*poops on Del's computer*
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*poops on Del's computer*
Great, they're back. I blame Spiff. At least the Popup Stopper blocks them so I don't have to deal with it. Should be good enough.
How do you know they're back if they're being blocked? :p Or did you tell Pop-up Stopper to make an annoying noise every time it blocks something? :p
That is why the panicware one is annoying at first until you realise you can turn it off :p Ad-aware is good as it asks you what you want to delete often with a @randomsite so you can just delete the ones with the address you don't want.Quote:
Originally posted by crono_logical
How do you know they're back if they're being blocked? :p Or did you tell Pop-up Stopper to make an annoying noise every time it blocks something? :p
I turned off popup stopper to see if they were gone and they weren't :(. I can't see them now since I turned it back on. Oh well, this will have to do then.
I've searched around to see if some people had your problem, but it doesn't seem to happen with that popup stopper.
However, I've found a site that reported a "homebrew" trojan for someone on 98, which did pretty much what happened to you. So it would be possible that such a thing exists but isn't on virus lists because it's not widely present.
So, in other words, you'll have to track down the bugger. Search all active processes (using windows' or a 3rd party) to see if something unusual is running, log the outbound traffic for something unusual (like connecting to a ftp server). Zonealarm for example should warn you when an app tries to connect to the net.
Ok! I got Zonealarm (thank you) and a program called 'rb32' asked for net access and when I granted it one of those popups immediately came on. So I deleted that program and hopefully that takes care of it. Thanks guys!
Shame ZoneAlarm itself is an evil program, especially when you try to remove it and it leaves bits and pieces of it all over the system - plus sometimes part of it seems to take your CPU over for no apparent reason after you've had it for some time, and uninstalling/reinstalling doesn't fix it due to such a crappy uninstaller :D Happenned to me before on Win98, though I've heard it's more common on WinXP. Not a nice program.
Oh well. Too late now. :p
Ad-Aware is the best way to ditch ad ware.
(see yamaneko's post for the link)
Just buy the porn site like what you did to this one! :bigsmile:
proof that del murder has seen pornography
Wow, one from the early days!
Why did I make this in General Chat? Or did we merge GC and the Help Forum at some point?
I think they must have, a lot of the old threads in GC are people asking questions about tech help. It was very confusing!
A fellow connoisseur of GC page 691, I see!Quote:
Originally Posted by DK