Woof! Went to a Yahoo web site the other day and came out covered with
fleas. It put some kind of pop up monster into my hard drive and I've had a
cascade of trashy pop ups.

I run Adaware and Spybot, and get rid of a bunch of pests. Then, next time
I open IE, I get more popups. I've gone through 5 iterations of this, and
think I've finally gotten rid of most of the pests. I can now run Adaware
and Spybot without finding any pests.

There seems to be one Microsoft labelled pest still lurking, however, that
only pops up occasionally now.

How can I find and get rid of it? It isn't in the "add/remove" stuff, so
may be in registry. Question is how do I know what to look for, where to
look, and then how to eliminate? Good questions.

Help appreciated.

On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 00:08:31 -0600, "RB" <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>Woof! Went to a Yahoo web site the other day and came out covered with
>fleas. It put some kind of pop up monster into my hard drive and I've had a
>cascade of trashy pop ups.
>
>I run Adaware and Spybot, and get rid of a bunch of pests. Then, next time
>I open IE, I get more popups. I've gone through 5 iterations of this, and
>think I've finally gotten rid of most of the pests. I can now run Adaware
>and Spybot without finding any pests.
>
>There seems to be one Microsoft labelled pest still lurking, however, that
>only pops up occasionally now.
>
>How can I find and get rid of it? It isn't in the "add/remove" stuff, so
>may be in registry. Question is how do I know what to look for, where to
>look, and then how to eliminate? Good questions.

http://mjc1.com/mirror/hjt/

There's a Help forum link there as well.

Why is it that you get hit with this sort of crap? Have you asked
yourself that? Seems to me that's the question you should be asking.


Art
http://www.epix.net/~artnpeg

(E-Mail Removed) wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 00:08:31 -0600, "RB" <(E-Mail Removed)>
> wrote:
>
>> Woof! Went to a Yahoo web site the other day and came out covered
>> with fleas. It put some kind of pop up monster into my hard drive
>> and I've had a cascade of trashy pop ups.
>>
>> I run Adaware and Spybot, and get rid of a bunch of pests. Then,
>> next time I open IE, I get more popups. I've gone through 5
>> iterations of this, and think I've finally gotten rid of most of the
>> pests. I can now run Adaware and Spybot without finding any pests.
>>
>> There seems to be one Microsoft labelled pest still lurking,
>> however, that only pops up occasionally now.
>>
>> How can I find and get rid of it? It isn't in the "add/remove"
>> stuff, so may be in registry. Question is how do I know what to
>> look for, where to look, and then how to eliminate? Good questions.
>
> http://mjc1.com/mirror/hjt/
>
> There's a Help forum link there as well.
>
> Why is it that you get hit with this sort of crap? Have you asked
> yourself that? Seems to me that's the question you should be asking.

Or Google Toolbar, very effective with Internet Explorer 6
www.google.com -> Google Toolbar

It eliminates realyall Popup Windows on my PC

Petr

"RB" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:bU1ob.92834$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Woof! Went to a Yahoo web site the other day and came out covered with
> fleas. It put some kind of pop up monster into my hard drive and I've had
a
> cascade of trashy pop ups.
>
> I run Adaware and Spybot, and get rid of a bunch of pests. Then, next
time
> I open IE, I get more popups. I've gone through 5 iterations of this, and
> think I've finally gotten rid of most of the pests. I can now run Adaware
> and Spybot without finding any pests.
>
> There seems to be one Microsoft labelled pest still lurking, however, that
> only pops up occasionally now.
>
> How can I find and get rid of it? It isn't in the "add/remove" stuff, so
> may be in registry. Question is how do I know what to look for, where to
> look, and then how to eliminate? Good questions.
>
> Help appreciated.
>
>

A few things:
1) You need to be more discriminating as to the sites you surf in or
2) You need to install protection if you're going to be using IE as a
browser and you need to restrict Active X and Java Script to *trusted sites
only*.
a) Get IE SpyAD and install it. It sets up restricted sites in IE:
http://www.staff.uiuc.edu/~ehowes/main-nf.htm
b) Use the SpyBot Inoculation Module to protect yourself when it detects
IE trying to download spyware
c) Get a hold of Spyware Blaster:
www.wilderssecurity.net/spywareblaster.html
3) Stop using IE if you can't be bothered with 1 & 2 and get yourself a
Mozilla based browser. Set it
4) This is most important, read this: http://www.claymania.com/safe-hex.html

<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 00:08:31 -0600, "RB" <(E-Mail Removed)>
> wrote:
>
>
> There's a Help forum link there as well.
>
> Why is it that you get hit with this sort of crap? Have you asked
> yourself that? Seems to me that's the question you should be asking.
>
>
Amen.

"Petr Koval" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Or Google Toolbar, very effective with Internet Explorer 6
> www.google.com -> Google Toolbar
>
> It eliminates realyall Popup Windows on my PC
>
> Petr
>
>
Sure it's no longer spyware?

optikl wrote:
> "Petr Koval" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:Fa6ob.57936$(E-Mail Removed)...
>> Or Google Toolbar, very effective with Internet Explorer 6
>> www.google.com -> Google Toolbar
>>
>> It eliminates realyall Popup Windows on my PC
>>
>> Petr
>>
>>
> Sure it's no longer spyware?

this is not so much importand if you are not directly connected to
internet amd browsing only thanks of any proxy server

google toolbar is than for prohibiting of web browser popup windows
and proxy for prohibiting that your pc is transefing any data into the
internet

Petr

On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 12:19:22 GMT, "optikl"
<optikl.spamtrap(remove)@comcast.net> wrote:

>3) Stop using IE if you can't be bothered with 1 & 2 and get yourself a
>Mozilla based browser. Set it
>4) This is most important, read this: http://www.claymania.com/safe-hex.html

Looks like M$ agrees with our recommendation to use alternate browser,
email and newsgroup apps since they now link to our Safe Hex page

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sec...d/default.mspx

Now if they would only allow downloading of critical security patches
using browsers other than IE ....


Art
http://www.epix.net/~artnpeg

<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 12:19:22 GMT, "optikl"
> Looks like M$ agrees with our recommendation to use alternate browser,
> email and newsgroup apps since they now link to our Safe Hex page
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sec...d/default.mspx
>
> Now if they would only allow downloading of critical security patches
> using browsers other than IE ....
>
>
That's gotta be a hold over from the "Browser Wars". You know, when
Microsoft believed that Netscape was actually a threat to its strategy to
dominate net commerce.

Thanks for the info and ideas:

}}} Why is it that you get hit with this sort of crap? Have you asked
yourself that? Seems to me that's the question you should be asking. {{{

Sure have. Here I am behind two firewalls, and running a good a/v program,
and I still catch flu.

}}}You need to be more discriminating as to the sites you surf in {{{

I got the infection through going to a web site that was one of many during
a Google search. I systematically go to each that shows any sign of promise
for what I'm searching for (you can't search without going to web sites,
especially if you're price shopping for computer or optical stuff).

On a practical basis, how can you know which web sites not to go to until
you've been there and had a bad experience? Again, I do a lot of price
shopping online, so go to a number of web sites. The good news is that I
rarely trip across something like this.

}}} Get IE SpyAD {{{

OK.

}}} Use the SpyBot Inoculation Module to protect yourself when it detects
IE trying to download spyware {{{

Good idea.

}}} Get a hold of Spyware Blaster: {{{

Also good idea.