spyware and pop-ups! :)

[CBulla]

Hey ya'll.. there's a new wave of "spyware/malware" out thats just causing us techs fitz right now. This afternoon had 5 laptops lined up on my bench all the with same problems: Pop ups, home page hijacked, and redirected searches.

Make sure your antivirus programs are up to date, your spyware cleaners are current (Spybot S&D has a new version out - 1.3, adaware has new updates) and most importantly, flush those temp files when your done!

If anyone has any problems or question post it up or PM me and I'll do my best to walk you through how to do things

 

[Geddes]

Wow!!

I have been doing battle this evening with this same situation on my home PC. SpyBot and Adaware have been really good to me but it looks like it's update time.

I thought it was the kids....

 

[Kat]

My computer was down for over a month with the Blaster virus & a couple others as well. Had the same problems: endless pop-ups, hijacked home page...it was a nightmare. I had a friend put many, many hours into fixing it.
It was especially tough on me because I was homebound w/ a back injury & had no acess to the internet. It just got up & running on Monday night.

 

[wstein]

My home network is a tough nut to crack, a Cisco PIX firewall, Symantec's Internet Security 2004, Ad-Aware, and cookies turned off to name a few of my security measures. Can you guess I do some IT security work?

Paul

 

[CBulla]

Kat - you'd love me as a tech. I have older laptops that I use a temporary loaners for people to check email and continue their home based business function, alibiet limited, so you really only expereince a limited down time. These machines are from clients who upgraded to new machines and donated these to my business to use as I see fit.

wstein - IT security or Dale from King of the Hill I just stop mine at my DSL router. Its a configurable firewall, so I set things up there, but some of these progs are persistant.

Overall, I've seen a few unpleasant new ad-wares lately. They've been horrid to remove from PC's.

 

[wstein]

What can I say, I had some extra money laying around one day, and so I decided to make a hard network.

Paul

 

[CBulla]

Next time ya have some extra $ laying around toss it my direction!

I always seem to mention the spyware/malware, but never say anything about virii infection. Here's a tool to help clean out some of those viruses. The best method for running it is to save the file to a folder on your desktop and extract it in there. After you've done that, reboot your PC in safe mode, go to that folder and run the program. I keep it book marked so that I can pull the latest version when I need it for client work:

http://www.trendmicro.com/download/dcs.asp

 

[SubMariner]

Hey ya'll.. there's a new wave of "spyware/malware" out thats just causing us techs fitz right now. This afternoon had 5 laptops lined up on my bench all the with same problems: Pop ups, home page hijacked, and redirected searches.

Make sure your antivirus programs are up to date, your spyware cleaners are current (Spybot S&D has a new version out - 1.3, adaware has new updates) and most importantly, flush those temp files when your done!

If anyone has any problems or question post it up or PM me and I'll do my best to walk you through how to do things

It's deja vu all over again! This has been happening to me PLUS my IE6 freezes up.

Thankfully, we're having an IT and his s/o over Sunday for a BBQ with the express purpose of having him try to debug my desktop.

In the meantime, I've printed out this thread with the llink for that program. Thanks, mon!

 

[CBulla]

No problemo!

 

[MikeC]

Hey Colin, thanks for reminding me to run ad-aware. Found 2 buggers, the software said it got rid of them.