Hi,
I recently went on an internet website for greeting cards, & lo & behold I am being bombarded with pop-ups, spam, & especially this "Allaboutsearching" which appears at the bottom of my screen after I open up MS Internet Explorer.
Is this something that can be eliminated easily? I am relatively new to MS WinXP. Also, I am receiving pop-ups when I am in my email. Pop-ups are showing up that look legitimate for correcting all these ills. I have not opened any of them up thinking these may be viruses. Did I do right? Please help. Thanks
You did right, if anything looks suspicious, don't click on it.
You should enable your XP firewalll or get a third-party one, like
Zone Alarm, free at
www.zonealarm.com
HOW TO: Enable or Disable Internet Connection Firewall in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q283673
More info about parasites:
http://www.aumha.org/a/parasite.htm
Download the utility CWshredder:
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/files/cwshredder.zip
Unzip - close *all* instances of IE & OE, hit the executable and
follow
the prompts.
You can also download Hijack This from here:
Go here:
http://mjc1.com/mirror/hjt/
For instructions on how to use it; you have to post the log it
produces
here:
http://www.spywareinfo.com/forums/
so experts tell you what is good and what is malware
HijackThis Log Tutorial
http://www.aumha.org/a/hjttutor.php
HiJack This is a program that simply searches for programs that run at
boot time, and checks for browser plug-ins. The results this program
gives you are generally just informative. Most of the programs it will
come up with are valid programs that you actually want running. You'll
have to go through the results and tell the program to delete unwanted
programs. If you can't figure out what some of the programs are, don't
just delete them, research them and/or post them so experts can let
you know what the program does. Just type the program name into google
which gets a decent answer pretty quickly.
Try downloading, installing and updating the
spyware removers from the links below. Run both of them.
If these don't correct the problem, then get yourself a copy of
BHODemon,
available at
http://www.definitivesolutions.com/bhodemon.htm .
It does not need installing - simply unzip and run the EXE program. It
is easy to use. It will find the hijackware DLL files, and give you
the ability to disable them.
Hope this helps.
