On Fri, 03 Oct 2003 01:37:45 GMT, in <alt.privacy.spyware>, "Trip"
<hahaha@hottiemail.com> wrote:
>
> I have run Ad-Aware, Spybot S&D, and Spyhunter. I cannot seem to
> overcome this problem. This is a new computer with Microsoft Windows XP
> Media.
[snip]

Ouch.

Indeed, the utilites you mention would be incapable of dealing properly with
that problem.

> Popups have always been a problem, but when my browser's address is
> about:blank and pop-ups still popup (9 or 10 of them) i know somethings
> wrong...
>
[snip]

Your browser's defined "home page" and "pop-ups" are two separate (and
nearly always completely unrelated) issues.

> Like I said before, I have run all of those programs and searched through
> files myself. I have a popup killer but its blocking so many of them it
> screws up my computer. (If you have your speakers on and the 'play sound
> when pop up is detected' turned on, it constantly beeps.
>
[snip]

That's because you're treating the symptom, instead of the disease.

> Im pretty sure google doesnt have pop ups but i get them from google too.
> They all seem to come from the same place -- www.sandboxer.com in my
> 'black list' in stopzilla the addresses are something similar to
> www.sandboxer.com/redirect.aspx?id=............ and so forth.
>
[snip]

This might provide some info relevant to that specific infestation:

<http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_100635.htm>

However...

This too is only one *symptom* of the underlying fundamental problem: Your
system setup is obviously completely FUBAR (and no, the fact that it is new,
possibly even "just like it came out of the box" does *NOT* contradict that
statement). First, there's the matter of Windows XP itself:

<http://www.hevanet.com/peace/microsoft.htm>
or <http://www.futurepower.net/microsoft.htm>

Then there's the fact that you are presumably using MSIE to do your web
browsing. That is a major problem in and of itself, regardless of which
version of Windows you might be using. As a "quick & dirty" fix, see:

<http://www.litepc.com/ieradicator.html>

Further, based on your description of the system's behavior, it's a good bet
that you're running MSIE with most or all of the default settings (like
having Java****, ActiveX, etc., enabled, allowing BHO hijacks, etc.). This
goes well beyond "a problem"; it's downright *suicidal* -- especially given
the fact that you are apparently running off a "cable modem" connection to
the 'net (lemme guess: you don't even have a proper hardware firewall
between your system and the cable modem, right?).

You need to *seriously* re-think your entire approach to system setup.

--

Jay T. Blocksom
--------------------------------
Appropriate Technology, Inc.
usenet01[at]appropriate-tech.net


"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-- Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759.

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