LOP.COM

[Greyfoxvt]

I am looking for information to remove a very pesky LOP.COM from my internet explorer toolbar. HELP!

 

[bcastner]

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/adware.lop.html

 

[carrr]

SpyBot should normally be plenty adequate to remove lop variants:

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

...info and manual removal instructions can be found here:

http://doxdesk.com/parasite/lop.html

 

[FrogEh]

interesting - I could not get NAV 2003 to even find the lop.com problem. Had to use several spyware programs to find the files and each found different ones. Every time I ran another, that new program caught more .lop files.

Any idea why NAV never caught any of these despite their contention that it does clean the system ?

 

[bcastner]

NAV is good at finding viruses. The LOP.com issue is not a virus, at least in the context of NAV feeling responsible for IE hijacks.

You should consider regularly using AdAware and SpyBot 1.2 in addition to the realtime antivirus protection that NAV offers.

 

[carrr]

Right on.
It's only been fairly recently that Norton, et al. even dedicated space on their sites to ad/mal wares such as lop. SpyBot and AdAware have been adjusting to lop's constantly evolving/mutating forms since the get go.