Ok, so I thought I could handle this myself, but I have been unable to rid myslef of ad popups. I have Firefox set as my default browser but about every three clicks on the internet I get Ad pop-up/unders in IE windows!!!
So I spent 3+ hours reading this forum. I downloaded
HijackThis 1.99.1
Spybot S&D (have been using this for a year or so w/ Teatimer)
Adaware Personal SE (also been using it for a year or so)
AdAware VX2 plug-in
CWshredder
CoolWWWSearch.SmartKiller
AboutBuster
I updated all to get the latest dictionaries/descroption files etc.
AboutBust was never able to update. I get a "Critical Error - An Error Occured while Updating" But I wasn't able to update it from my uninfected computer either
So I booted into safe mode and ran
AboutBuster (nothing)
CWshrededr (nothing)
AdAware (full scan - couple of cookies)
Spybot (full scan - nothing)
Reboot to Safemode
AVG (full scan - nothing)
Reboot to Safemode
Ewido (full scan- 3 cookies)
Reboot to Safemode
Ran Hijackthis included the log
Cleaned my temp folders for all users including admin/default/networkservice/localservice
Ran LookToMe-Destroyer.exe but it never comes back up when I click "run as task" is just shuts off never to be heard from again. (Task Scheduler service is running)
but the kicker is, I have done all this before, several times. But as soon as I use a web browser I get pop-ups witing 30 seconds. And the longer I let it go without running an arsenal of anti-spyware at it the more stuff it installs, like "adintelligence" and vbana.exe.
thoughts? I really don't want to have to fdisk it out.
Thanks
iiijane
So I spent 3+ hours reading this forum. I downloaded
HijackThis 1.99.1
Spybot S&D (have been using this for a year or so w/ Teatimer)
Adaware Personal SE (also been using it for a year or so)
AdAware VX2 plug-in
CWshredder
CoolWWWSearch.SmartKiller
AboutBuster
I updated all to get the latest dictionaries/descroption files etc.
AboutBust was never able to update. I get a "Critical Error - An Error Occured while Updating" But I wasn't able to update it from my uninfected computer either
So I booted into safe mode and ran
AboutBuster (nothing)
CWshrededr (nothing)
AdAware (full scan - couple of cookies)
Spybot (full scan - nothing)
Reboot to Safemode
AVG (full scan - nothing)
Reboot to Safemode
Ewido (full scan- 3 cookies)
Reboot to Safemode
Ran Hijackthis included the log
Cleaned my temp folders for all users including admin/default/networkservice/localservice
Ran LookToMe-Destroyer.exe but it never comes back up when I click "run as task" is just shuts off never to be heard from again. (Task Scheduler service is running)
but the kicker is, I have done all this before, several times. But as soon as I use a web browser I get pop-ups witing 30 seconds. And the longer I let it go without running an arsenal of anti-spyware at it the more stuff it installs, like "adintelligence" and vbana.exe.
thoughts? I really don't want to have to fdisk it out.
Thanks
iiijane
