Search the Web Pop-up

[chad]

About once a day for no reason I get a full screen pop-up
that wants me to search the web. When I hit ctrl-alt-del
a dialog box comes up telling me to "just hit go to
search the web" then the task manager comes up and I am
able to end task. It doesn't happen on any one site, in
fact most time it happens just going to google. I don't
have a virus and I don't have any adware or spyware on my
PC. Is this an exploit in IE?

Thanks

 

[siljaline]

About once a day for no reason I get a full screen pop-up
that wants me to search the web. When I hit ctrl-alt-del
a dialog box comes up telling me to "just hit go to
search the web" then the task manager comes up and I am
able to end task. It doesn't happen on any one site, in
fact most time it happens just going to google. I don't
have a virus and I don't have any adware or spyware on my
PC. Is this an exploit in IE?

Thanks

Likely Spyware.

Removal Tool, your choice, novice users, Lavasoft's Ad-aware,
http://ftp.pcworld.com/pub/new/privacy___security/aaw6181.exe

Lavasoft/Ad-aware home: http://www.lavasoftusa.com

Advanced users, SpyBot Search & Destroy,
http://studserver.uni-dortmund.de/~su1669/spybotsd12.exe

SpyBot home: http://security.kolla.de/
SpyBot How-To: http://www.tomcoyote.org/SPYBOT/

Install either but both are not necessary, reboot, read FAQ and overview, use
online update feature to obtain the latest reference files, scan for Spyware
much like you would with your pre-installed anti-virus scanner.
Rid your machine of unwanted Spyware pests.

HTH


--
siljaline

"Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game
because they almost always turn out to be -- or to be indistinguishable from
-- self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time."
- Neil Stephenson, _Cryptonomicon_