Need help stopping Pop-ups

[ckaspar]

I am not sure if this is the right forum to post to but I will anyway and see what I can get.

I have a Win2K system and am continuously getting ads. I will get ads even if I am not online though. I will disconnect my ethernet cable to disconnect myself from the T1 line and I will get blank pop-ups stating page could not be displayed. What can I do. They are driving me crazy.

The user of the system had ShopAtHome agent and Commoname installed on her computer. She states that she did not install them on her computer. I uninstalled the agent and Commoname but they keep coming back

I have installed quite a few pop-us stoppers but they do not seem to help at all. The ads continue.

I have also disabled ActiveX and Java Scripting on IE 6.0 and that did not help.

I want to get rid of these programs and all of the pop-ups. Please help.

Thanks in advance.

 

[rblue]

Dowload and install ad-aware

http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/

from lavasoft and run a deep scan. It will detect and remove the spyware from the system.

 

[craigey]

you can also try going to the control panel -> administrative tools -> services and stopping the messenger service. Also turn it off so that it doesn't start when windows loads up.

 

[ImpetusEra]

I've seen that problem once before. The person picked it up off some website. Though I don't remember the exact process to get rid of it you can look at the running processes and identify oddball ones along with looking in the registry under run (where you often go for manual virus removals). You can somewhat backwards trace the program and remove it.

 

[zelko961]

Try some of these links

http://www.panicware.com

http://www.popup-killer-stopper.net

http://www.adsgone.com

 

[SQLBaby]

you can download google tool bars, it works fantastic and its free, it stops all popups.

http://www.google.com

Knowledge is a key of success.

 

[rblue]

I would follow craigey's solution from the sound of your issue. Some spyware apps have hooks into the messaging subsystem that no popup stopper will address.

That's why I suggested Ad-Aware. It will scan your drive and registry and identify all of the spybots running on the machine.

 

[ckaspar]

Thanks guys. Ad-Aware cleaned everything up. It worked like a charm. Now the employee can get off my butt.

 

[compgirlfhredi]

Read the fine print on installing the google toolbar, you agree to allowing all sorts of new stuff ie:Lycos toolbar, etc.

 

[compgirlfhredi]

Quote:
"My Google Toolbar had decided to update itself all on its own. Ordinarily, I wouldn't have minded, because it's a useful tool. But on second thought, I think they've set an uncool precedent here. So I dug a little further on Google to see if I agreed to it, and sure enough, if you installed the beta, you agreed to it..."

I checked, and he was right.