Spyware

[Irwin]

I know this may not be the place to ask this question,
but I have no choice. Spyware and adware is driving me
insane. It keeps changing my homepage, making popups, and
it has comletely blocked off all of my search engines. I
have tried to download the spyware deletion software, but
it always makes you register and pay. I have tried to go
through and delete all the files myself, which of course
did not work. Can anyone help? I'm desperate.

 

[brackenburn]

Hi Irwin.

There are free versions of both "AdAware" and "SpyBot". I've been using
them for some time and they're doing a good job.

Andy I.

 

[Guest]

free free spybot at safer-networking.org
or free free ad-aware at lavasoftusa.com
or use mozilla.org 'firefox'
and in ie ,tools,options,advanced,uncheck both 'enable
install on demand',apply.

 

[Gerry Cornell]

Start by downloading Adaware and / or update Reference file from http://www.lavasoftusa.com/support/download/
and use it to remove parasites.

What is the outcome after performing these tasks?

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Hope this helps.

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[Mike Burgess]

Irwin,
Dealing with Unwanted Malware, Parasites, Toolbars and Search Engines
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm
Note: be *sure* to follow-up with HijackThis
Post back with the URL where you posted if you want help with your log.
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Blocking Spyware, Adware, Parasites, Hijackers, Trojans, with a HOSTS file
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm [updated 04-02-04]
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[H Leboeuf]

Have a look this if applicable.

Unable to use any major Search Engines?
Qhosts virus/trojan, ALERT!.

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/trojan.qhosts.html

http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_100719.htm

http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojqhosts1.html

Removal tools that have been used with success.
http://www.brown.edu/Facilities/CIS/Software_Services/virus/index.html
http://software.brown.edu/dist/w-cleanqhosts.html

To protect against an other attack, be sure to install hotfix 828750 which
fixes the exploit that this virus uses.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/downloads/critical/828750/default.asp