IE now has LOTS of popups... 5

[soonerguy]

Someone has recently clicked on some web site that has installed some type of spyware on a Windows XP machine using Internet Explorer 6.0 2600.0.  First it changed the home page.  That has been fixed. Now, IE runs EXTREMELY slow and you are constantly bombarded with pop-ads.  I've run Spybot on the computer several times.  It will find spyware and clean it off.  I set it to scan again at restart and it gets a clean scan.  Then, I open internet explorer and we're off to the races again.  I can run spybot again and get a different set of spyware than what I had last time.  I'm looking for some suggestions about what I need to do to clean this machine up..

 

[carrr]

Run through the steps in this faq608-4650
BE SURE that you disable system restore first and foremost, else you're simply wasting time trying to remove your problems.

"'Tis an ill wind that blows no minds." - Malaclypse the Younger

 

[Kjonnnn]

I use Search and Destroy. Clean the spyware off, then Innoculate.

http://www.safer-networking.org/

Also get a popup block ( I use Googless. At 5,000 blockd and counting.

 

[vop]

Clean out all your temp files. Something in the registry or an activeX control may be re-triggering your popup invasions from source content found in such locations.

 

[khazars]

If you haven't fixed your problem post a hijack this log here and we'll take a look at it for you. also download spywareblaster and spywareguard for further protection and CWshredder all can be got below at this link!

http://www.majorgeeks.com/downloads31.html

khaz

 

[2ffat]

Since you are running XP, you could also run MSCONFIG and stop any unknown processes that might be starting up.



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[flugh]

Always worth mentioning the 'turn off system restore, reboot, -then- clean the system' too (in the System Control Panel applet, System Restore tab). Could be getting cleaned, then Windows, in it's own little helpful way, puts the files back that you must have deleted by mistake (trust it, it knows what you need better than you do, just walk into the light).

-insert some "my debian gnu/linux box doesn't have this problem" propaganda here ;-)-

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JBR