Anybody else had to deal with 180search Assistant?

[GlenJohnson]

I have a client who has been inundated by pop-ups. Done everything I could to get rid of them, only clue I had was I kept getting these messages, (up to 20 at a time), that 180search Assistant had been removed by a third party program, and wanted to re-install itself, needing Internet Access to do so. (I'm guessing Spy-bot or Ad-aware did it.) Funny thing is when I went to

http://www.ad-aware.com,

kept trying to re-direct me to

http://www.adaware.com,

which is not the same. Trend micro home scan kept getting re-directed to

http://www.pcsecurityshield.com/webapp/sp.asp?sid=11.

Not good. I finally got everything worked out, but the ad's keep popping up. Turned off messaging, (XP), and turned off PnP, (A third party file sharing program I found out). I'm not sure if 180search started this or is a by-product of something bigger. The client just called me and he can't get at his e-mail for the pop-ups. I told him to right click on the task bar and select close. These folks are aggrevated. Ideas?

Glen A. Johnson
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[Kesser]

Run Spybot and CWS Shredder as well, spybot picks up a lot

 

[GlenJohnson]

Ran spybot and ad-aware first thing.

only clue I had was I kept getting these messages, (up to 20 at a time), that 180search Assistant had been removed by a third party program, and wanted to re-install itself, needing Internet Access to do so. (I'm guessing Spy-bot or Ad-aware did it.) Funny thing is when I went to

http://www.ad-aware.com,

kept trying to re-direct me to

http://www.adaware.com,

which is not the same.

Thanks for the thoughts. I'll look into CWS Shredder.

Glen A. Johnson
If you're from Northern Illinois/Southern Wisconsin feel free to join the Tek-Tips in Chicago, Illinois Forum.

TTinChicago
Johnson Computers