pc infected by an advertising bug

[viscount17]

every few minutes an add opens, full screen. the ads are different, but always tagged - Favorit, which they most definitely are not!

tried running Adaware, it found several that AVG hadn't but this is still there.

tried a system restore but that keeps coming up with 'cannot restore to 'Date' restore point).

any ideas gratefully received.

 

[JustOne]

Uh-oh.....
try this first http://malwarebytes.org/ install and run the latest version.
Failing that it's gonna be complicated.

Do you have a firewall running?

 

[Yidio]

If you haven't already,try Spybot search & destroy. It's worked for me in the past.


Here is also the direct download Link for it. Let us know how you get on.

 

[viscount17]

thanks guys, noted and will try

 

[viscount17]

Yidio, I opened your link and as soon as that had opened, the ************ bug opened an ad for McAfee!

 

[Yidio]

Strange,mate.

You may need to run a scan whilst your machine is in safe mode.

Try this link: http://www.superantispyware.com/

Download the software,reboot your pc & press F8 on start up to run it in safe mode.

 

[Imurg]

I've heard that a very large axe can work wonders in this situation............

 

[Andy]

Spybot is by far the best but can do some serious damage to your PC if you don't know what your doing. Be careful.

Andy

 

[Yidio]

Viscount,try the link above that i suggested, "superantispyware".

I've just installed it & run it through safe mode myself & it detected 76 threats (i thought my machine was clean),that was just through a quick scan aswell. It's worth a try mate.

 

[viscount17]

I found it, it had been installed as a programme on the back of something else. if I knew what the something else was I'd send every virus ever invented!

 

[haplesshacker]

Viscount.

Do you know what it hitched on? I have my suspicions on my pc it was on the back of AVG free and the damn Yahoo toolbar on IE.

But as yet I've not got rid of it.

On another note. Is anyone having problems closing IE down?

I click on the 'X' in the top right, up pops the close confirmation, to which I agree. Then a notice comes up that IE has stopped working, and it immediately restarts and relaunches. Damn pc's. Mac next!

 

[haplesshacker]

Sorry. But I've not had the pop ads tonight yet, and I've not done anything different. Was it on the back of the forum?

Come to think of it Spybot picks up tracking cookies and adware constantly on my laptop whilst on the forum! But no whilst surfing elsewhere???

 

[JustOne]

On another note. Is anyone having problems closing IE down?

I click on the 'X' in the top right, up pops the close confirmation, to which I agree. Then a notice comes up that IE has stopped working, and it immediately restarts and relaunches. Damn pc's. Mac next!

Try running a scan disc, it often helps IE issues.
Click 'my computer' then right click on your C drive, then 'properties' then 'tools' then click 'error checking check now' it will prompt you to reboot to run the scan. It can take 15 min for the scan to run. Don't worry about checking for disc errors unless you still have IE problems.

 

[viscount17]

hapless, I'm running Firefox normally, though recently when I was having problems with Skycaddie I re-installed it from ie.

it wasn't in evidence after the last avg update, so I don't think it came from there.
I suspect either Google Chrome - since deleted or the Yahoo toolbar on Firefox. (thinking about it, there was a recent Firefox upgrade, which restarts the Yahoo toolbar as the preferred option - personally I think its rubbish)

 

[haplesshacker]

Yahoo toolbar, it might be then.

Okay. So how do I get rid of Yahaoo toolbar?


As for the other thing. Thanks JOUK.

 

[JustOne]

remove Yahoo toolbar from your control panel.
Click START and there should be an option for control panel. Then go to 'add/remove programs' and find the Yahoo toolbar on the list and remove it.

 

[Paul2009]

get bullguard antivirus and put th file in quarantine and then destroy it - works nearly every time!

 

[haplesshacker]

remove Yahoo toolbar from your control panel.
Click START and there should be an option for control panel. Then go to 'add/remove programs' and find the Yahoo toolbar on the list and remove it.

Thanks but no Yahoo listed at all in there?