Popups will not stop

[Heather]

"Beauregard T. Shagnasty" <a.nony.mous@example.invalid> wrote in message
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> Steve L wrote:
>
>> I am writing these posts on another computer. The one that is
>> "diseased" is
>> the one I am trying to de-bug. It is not used for e-mail, however, I
>> imagine that IE browser can be removed and Outlook Express still
>> remain.
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/...tlookvsoe.mspx
>
> "Outlook Express was developed as part of Internet Explorer with the
> home user in mind ... "

Hi Shaggy......

Thanks for pointing me to Tom's explanation. I will re-read it in the
morning. He is *the guru* for OE and IE.

I have been a tad suspicious that one of those 2 programs (CDClone or
Nero) just might come from other than the manufacturer's site. I use
Nero 6 on here and did have CD Clone on my old machine. They caused no
problems with eZ Trust.

Heather
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[Steve L]

I want to thank everybody for their help. Things are much better now.

The SuperAntiSpyware program found 10 times more problems than Spybot,
Adaware and a couple others I used. I did not see SuperAntiSpyware listed
under SpywareWarrior though(?).
Running all the programs in Safe mode, and manually deleting registry
entries for Smitfraud-C and a manual deletion of Registry Cleaner 2006 did
the trick for now.

What a battle. Thanks again.


"Rube Bumpkin" <Someone@somewhere.world> wrote in message
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> Steve L wrote:
>> Popups will not stop -- I am talking about one every few seconds! I have
>> run Adaware, Spybot Search and Destroy and Avast anitvirus software.
>> These programs always find malicious spyware but as soon as I clean it
>> out, they are back -- instantly. Even when there is no browser open,
>> they will come in. I have scrubbed IE and am using Firefox, but still no
>> use.
>> The computer is on a wireless connection (if that matters).
>>
>> I would appreciate any help. Thank you.
>
> There have been a few good replies already, so I'll try to not be
> repetitive.
>
> 1) read the a.p.s FAQ, there's a LOT of good stuff in there
> 2) Get the infected computer off the internet, turn off the wireless
> 3) Don't download anything without checking it out with SpywareWarrior
> 4) Do any downloads on the other computer you have access to
> 5) Download SuperAntiSpyware, the free version will do just fine. There
> were others mentioned as well. David H. Lipman has a Multi_AV tool that
> works, but you'll need to be on the internet to use it, AFAIK
> 6) Move anything you want to use to the infected computer
> 7) Reboot in Safe Mode
> 8) Run all of the tools, one after another; removing, quarantining, and/or
> disinfecting as you go.
> 9) Let us know how it all worked out. As others have pointed out we
> generally want/need more info than "I have a lot of popups" We need to
> know what you tried, what the results were, what sort of popups they are,
> etc.
>
> RB

[Beauregard T. Shagnasty]

Steve L wrote:

> I did not see SuperAntiSpyware listed under SpywareWarrior though(?).

You will find it on this page:
http://spywarewarrior.com/asw-features.htm
down under "Recommended Programs.

It won't be on the "Rogue" page, because it's not a rogue program.

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