web popup virus?

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3 total messages Started by Hiroko Mon, 10 Dec 2001 22:09

#382

Author: Hiroko
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 22:09

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I seem to have a virus that pops open web sites at random times.

It spawns a IE session with only ... as the identifier, then it opens and
ad.
It has some intelligence since it wont open more than 3 ads at a time and
sometimes will resize the window of my current app so I can't ignore the ad.

How do I trace it down and kill it?
It's not through my service provider.

Re: web popup virus?

#383

Author: neil klopfenstein
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 22:29

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Hiroko <jnapier@spam@21stcentury.net> wrote:
>I seem to have a virus that pops open web sites at random times.
>
>It spawns a IE session with only ... as the identifier, then it opens and
>ad.
>It has some intelligence since it wont open more than 3 ads at a time and
>sometimes will resize the window of my current app so I can't ignore the ad.
>
>How do I trace it down and kill it?
>It's not through my service provider.

 Try Ad-aware (www.lavasoftusa.com).. it locates and removes ad-ware that's
infected your system. Extremely useful.

Re: web popup virus?

#384

Author: Mathew Carter ( Home Scene )
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 23:48

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i had this sort of thing last week, it ended up being a trojan horse

i downloaded a trojan remover program and it cleaned it up fine

Mathew Carter
www.homescene.com.au

"Hiroko" <jnapier@spam@21stcentury.net> wrote in message
news:9v3bqo$m0h$1@bob.news.rcn.net...
> I seem to have a virus that pops open web sites at random times.
>
> It spawns a IE session with only ... as the identifier, then it opens and
> ad.
> It has some intelligence since it wont open more than 3 ads at a time and
> sometimes will resize the window of my current app so I can't ignore the
ad.
>
> How do I trace it down and kill it?
> It's not through my service provider.
>
>

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