Can't remove porn popups!

[Andco]

Sorry if this is the wrong newsgroup for this post, but I'm at a loss.

My sister-in-law's son went to some Spanish porn site and now she keeps
getting porn popups on her WinXP Home PC. I found the offending line using
MSCONFIG and unchecked it:

@chicasx_ww\@chicasx_ww[1].exe-t

I've never seen anything like this and I don't know how to permanently get
rid of it! There's nothing in Add/Remove Programs; I searched the disk (with
the view set at show all files) and couldn't find the exe; searched the
registry for "chicasx" and found nothing; Googled chicasx and got thousands
of references to porn sites; ran updated Norton AV and Ad-aware but neither
sees it as a virus nor spyware.

Anybody seen this before and know how to remove this?

Thanks in advance for any assistance!

 

[Jim Macklin]

Try SpyBot Search & Destroy free from www.security.kolla.de



| Sorry if this is the wrong newsgroup for this post, but
I'm at a loss.
|
| My sister-in-law's son went to some Spanish porn site and
now she keeps
| getting porn popups on her WinXP Home PC. I found the
offending line using
| MSCONFIG and unchecked it:
|
| @chicasx_ww\@chicasx_ww[1].exe-t
|
| I've never seen anything like this and I don't know how to
permanently get
| rid of it! There's nothing in Add/Remove Programs; I
searched the disk (with
| the view set at show all files) and couldn't find the exe;
searched the
| registry for "chicasx" and found nothing; Googled chicasx
and got thousands
| of references to porn sites; ran updated Norton AV and
Ad-aware but neither
| sees it as a virus nor spyware.
|
| Anybody seen this before and know how to remove this?
|
| Thanks in advance for any assistance!
|
|

 

[Guest]

Try downloading and installing Spy-Bot. It may catch some
things Ad-Aware misses.

 

[purplehaz]

Run these tools weekly:
spybot -- http://www.safer-networking.org/
ad-aware -- http://www.lavasoftusa.com/

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

 

[Joe Lang]

You might want to give Proxomitron a try. This is a very
capable and useful proxy program that can easily be
programmed to remove popups as they come in, saving time,
bandwidth and frustration. There are many places it can
be downloaded. Do a search in Google for 'Proxomitron
Naoko' or just Proxomitron and 'download'. The current
version, I believe, is 4.6.

 

[Andco]

Thanks for the info Joe. I'll give Proxomitron a look-see, but I still need
a way to get rid of this "chicas" stuff off the box itself.

Anyone have an ideas at all?

You might want to give Proxomitron a try. This is a very
capable and useful proxy program that can easily be
programmed to remove popups as they come in, saving time,
bandwidth and frustration. There are many places it can
be downloaded. Do a search in Google for 'Proxomitron
Naoko' or just Proxomitron and 'download'. The current
version, I believe, is 4.6.

-----Original Message-----
Sorry if this is the wrong newsgroup for this post, but I'm at a loss.

My sister-in-law's son went to some Spanish porn site and now she keeps
getting porn popups on her WinXP Home PC. I found the offending line using
MSCONFIG and unchecked it:

@chicasx_ww\@chicasx_ww[1].exe-t

I've never seen anything like this and I don't know how to permanently get
rid of it! There's nothing in Add/Remove Programs; I searched the disk (with
the view set at show all files) and couldn't find the exe; searched the
registry for "chicasx" and found nothing; Googled chicasx and got thousands
of references to porn sites; ran updated Norton AV and Ad- aware but neither
sees it as a virus nor spyware.

Anybody seen this before and know how to remove this?

Thanks in advance for any assistance!


.

 

[Guest]

Try looking in the cookies, for popups start appearing when they write into cookies. Look for a cookie that shouldn't be there after clearing them all out and visiting "1" website. What happens is once you visit a site the cookies are written then that site gives you some cookies and then you can decypher what one(s) shouldn't be there and if you find a suspicous one open it and look at the coding for a name or referral. Then using that info. check your registry.
I've done this many of times and it catches all the popups that shouldn't happen and other programs cant' find.