IE Pop-ups

[Jewelzz]

I've been using Mozilla but my daughter refuses to switch, she uses IE.

I just did a clean install of XP. The 1st flippin thing she goes to install is Grokster (grrrr). Now my problem...

If she stays logged on over night, when I get up in the morning there are several IE windows open, all pop-up ads. She doesn't have anything running when she's goes to bed except NAV and NIS, Grokster has been uninstalled (and it still happens), I've run Ad-Aware (found 17 items that have all been deleted). This only happens on her desktop, any ideas, suggestions? I don't want to reinstall XP again

I'm running XP Pro

 

[samwisefoxburr]

Someone else talked about this last week. If you run Ad-aware it should fix your problem.

 

[Jewelzz]

As I already stated, I ran Ad-Aware and it hasn't fixed the problem. The computer has been rebooted umpteen times since then as she's having problems loading her stupid game

Kids!!! They just don't listen when you say 'leave it, I'll take care of it when I get home or over the weekend' "mad"

 

[damnyank]

Jewelzz - just a stab in the dark - woudl SpyBot help if ya ran it???

 

[Jewelzz]

Isn't spybot the same thing as Ad-Aware? That was the impression I got when everyone was upset that Lavasoft wasn't supporting Ad-Aware 5.x any longer.

 

[samwisefoxburr]

Hehe, sorry I just woke up and was still drowsy. If you run 'msconfig' from the run command box, is there anything under the 'Startup' tab or maybe the 'Services' tab that looks suspicious?

 

[Jewelzz]

Originally posted by samwisefoxburr
Hehe, sorry I just woke up and was still drowsy. If you run 'msconfig' from the run command box, is there anything under the 'Startup' tab or maybe the 'Services' tab that looks suspicious?

Dunno samwisefoxburr. I'm still at work but will look at that when I get home.

 

[damnyank]

Spy Bot Search and Destroy and AdAware are different programs and depending on who you talk to - results in which is best. It can't hurt to run it:

Download here

 

[Hipster Doofus]

What about a popup stopper?

 

[Jewelzz]

Thanx damnyank, I'll download and try it tonight when I get home.

Hipster, I'm using Adshield with IE.

 

[Hipster Doofus]

If it is a fresh install you could try repairing IE. It might remove whatever is going on.

Try this first>
Start/Run/regsvr32 urlmon.dll

then try>
MS

 

[zyfos]

Reinstall Grokster. Uninstall Gator, Offer Companion, SaveNow, and Grokster Ads Support. Then Uninstall Grokster. Run Ad-Aware to get rid of the junk it couldn't find.
Might want to check C:\Program Files\Common Files for spyware junk too.

 

[Jewelzz]

Thanx Hipster. I'll try those tonight if I'm not too tired :huh:

 

[Perris Calderon]

download the zip I have attached.

open it, run it.

take a look at what it finds, and delete wht you don't like.

I know dy is gonna ask what this is.

it's called highjack this.

it finds all the extensions on your browser, and removes them as you chosse

 

[Jewelzz]

Think this was my problem. NAV scanned and found Hackertool.Flooder.


Norton has this to say about it: http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/dyn/20697.html

Thanx xsiv for this link: http://www.computing.net/security/wwwboard/forum/3193.html

Will see if this cures my problem.

 

[Hipster Doofus]

How on earth did you get that when just coming back from a fresh install?

 

[Jewelzz]

F**king Grokster probably

 

[NetRyder]

Pita Pita Pita *shakes head*

 

[Grandmaster]

Originally posted by Jewelzz
I've been using Mozilla but my daughter refuses to switch, she uses IE.

I just did a clean install of XP. The 1st flippin thing she goes to install is Grokster (grrrr). Now my problem...

If she stays logged on over night, when I get up in the morning there are several IE windows open, all pop-up ads. She doesn't have anything running when she's goes to bed except NAV and NIS, Grokster has been uninstalled (and it still happens), I've run Ad-Aware (found 17 items that have all been deleted). This only happens on her desktop, any ideas, suggestions? I don't want to reinstall XP again

I'm running XP Pro

So Speedy_B finally brainwashed you?

 

[Jewelzz]

Heh, she was standing behind me "How did we get that?" DOH!!!!