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**Zell's Fists of Fury** · 05-31-2003, 10:21 AM

*poops on Del's computer*

***Del Murder*** · 05-31-2003, 05:40 PM

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.

**crono_logical** · 05-31-2003, 06:33 PM

How do you know they're back if they're being blocked?

Or did you tell Pop-up Stopper to make an annoying noise every time it blocks something?

**Heath** · 05-31-2003, 08:09 PM

Originally posted by crono_logical
How do you know they're back if they're being blocked?

Or did you tell Pop-up Stopper to make an annoying noise every time it blocks something?

That is why the panicware one is annoying at first until you realise you can turn it off

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.

***Del Murder*** · 05-31-2003, 08:22 PM

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.

**Endless** · 05-31-2003, 11:33 PM

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.

***Del Murder*** · 06-01-2003, 12:43 AM

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 <i>hopefully</i> that takes care of it. Thanks guys!

**crono_logical** · 06-01-2003, 01:26 AM

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

Happenned to me before on Win98, though I've heard it's more common on WinXP. Not a nice program.