Pop ups, Spy ware, My CPU is INFECTED! HELP!!!

[Hi-Po]

Alright, I have my pop up blocker set to high. My Norton is on full time, and I CONSTANTLY am fighting pop ups. Its gotten so bad now, on every car website I go to.... certain words are high lighted with a link. Like is a post was made like this...


I found this new job today, its great. My employer is so nice and pay awesome. The benefits are great, my health insurance covers both myself and my nagging women.


The words..... JOB... EMPLOYER..... BENEFITS..... HEALTH INSURANCE ......


would all be high lighted. I have done full system scans through Norton. How can I find and destroy this bullshit that has infected my computer? I surf the normal porn, and I get infected with this CTD. Bull shit.

Please help guide me to find this stuff.

[tatertot91]

1 Remove Norton
2 Go to www.filehippo.com
3 Download Antivir Free (in antivirus section),Install,Update,Scan your comp
4 download spybot s&d (in antispyware), Install,Update,Scan
5 Download CCleaner (in antispyware), Run cleaner,on left do a registry scan,click fix issues
6 Download cwshreader (in antispyware), run that, it doesn't need to be installed to run
7 If you want anything extra download adaware (in antispyware) and scan through that too

All these you can download at filehippo.com
To uninstall norton go to the control panel, add/remove programs
uninstall all norton stuff and liveupdate stuff that comes with norton
If you wanna keep norton
Cant help you any more

If this works, no more porn
Get a girls gone wild dvd or something (if it is girl related)

[bills98ta]

I like these... Free Versions...

http://www.lavasoft.com/

http://www.ccleaner.com/

[Goat-E]

I've been running Avast! free antivirus ect. Nothing has ever gotten through. Norton is crap. http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html I got it before I heard her talk about it but Kim Kommando highly recommends it. I have several friends that use it also and they all love it.

[shady milkman]

Alright, I have my pop up blocker set to high. My Norton is on full time, and I CONSTANTLY am fighting pop ups. Its gotten so bad now, on every car website I go to.... certain words are high lighted with a link. Like is a post was made like this...


I found this new job today, its great. My employer is so nice and pay awesome. The benefits are great, my health insurance covers both myself and my nagging women.


The words..... JOB... EMPLOYER..... BENEFITS..... HEALTH INSURANCE ......


would all be high lighted. I have done full system scans through Norton. How can I find and destroy this bullshit that has infected my computer? I surf the normal porn, and I get infected with this CTD. Bull shit.

Please help guide me to find this stuff.

well if i am down this weekend..then i will clean it out for ya.

[tnthub]

well if i am down this weekend..then i will clean it out for ya.

This sounds like the best deal...

In the meantime run all your scans in "safe mode" by pressing the F8 key when the system boots. You can also go here: http://www.malwarebytes.org/ and run the free version (also in safe mode).

If you do end up un-installing Norton use the symantec un-installer after you uninstall the program from your install/un-install interface as Norton usually fails to clean up after itself when it is removed.

There are often many different programs used when de-infesting a computer based on the exact symptoms and errors and having someone experienced do the work is usually a good thing because sometimes things can simply be judgement calls based upon past experience.

[Hi-Po]

Well, I downloaded this websites stuff. Malwarebytes.org. Did a quick scan, delted all that shit, and my laptop is runing great. Havent had any pop ups whatsoever since.

[ibanez7]

there are tons of different cleaners... CCleaner, ace utilies, lavasoft ad-aware

however the best thing to keep a HD, and PC running strong and fast is:

-back up your personal stuff
-reformat the hd
-reinstall the software you need
-make a ghost image on another hd(external) of your pc hd, exactly the way you want it
-every few months back up your personal stuff
-reflash your pc had with your ghost image....

[krese]

there are tons of different cleaners... CCleaner, ace utilies, lavasoft ad-aware

however the best thing to keep a HD, and PC running strong and fast is:

-back up your personal stuff
-reformat the hd
-reinstall the software you need
-make a ghost image on another hd(external) of your pc hd, exactly the way you want it
-every few months back up your personal stuff
-reflash your pc had with your ghost image....

and don't use IE! use firefox or any other one that you like.

[Knighthawk LS1]

I've been testing microsoft security essentials for a while now and I like it, does not come with all that un-needed crap that Antivir and AVG comes with.
Google microsoft security essentials, download, install and run full system scan.
Also like people above have said, run CCleaner, defrag system as well. Also, download and install malwarebytes and run full system scan as well. I've discovered that Malwarebytes can find more things wrong than Spybot.

[Hi-Po]

I didnt run the full system malwarebites scan. Just the quick scan.

[Spikito]

I dont have shit...and ive been good for 18 months with this computer....and i download porn daily....just gotta be careful

[CJREX]

I don't run any anti-virus and I just use the built in firewall. I've also never ran defragmenter.

I have had absolutely Zero trojans, viruses, and malwares over the past several years.

Oh wait. It's a Mac.

Teasing aside, MBAM is the shiz of freeware malware removal. Run the full scan and keep it updated and you should be good to go.

It doesn't replace a good anti-virus program, but I find it does a better job on malware than Lavasoft or the Microsoft Malicious software removal tool.

[Gr|m|ock]

Interesting reads. Thank you guys.