re: Pop-Ups by the Billions!
Saturday, March 13, 2004 at 9:42 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by MrCharlie
(4141 messages posted)
Here's a bunch of info on it and also there's an uninstaller available, let me know
how you make out and what worked. HJT will be saved automatically in notepad when
you hit the save button, you may have your file associations mixed up, but anyway
try the other things and if need be here's HiJackThis
and Instructions
MrC
INFO
Uninstaller
MoreInfo
EvenMoreInfo
On Saturday, March 13, 2004 at 8:48 am, Bob wrote:
>Hello. As you suggested, I scanned with HiJack This. It won't save the log successfully.
>When I try to save, for some reason Kodak Imaging opens to "read" the file...and
>it can't. I have Notepad open and ready to go, but can't get any further. Of a very
>related matter: There is an item called PurityScan that has recently arrived and
>has been identified by Spybot. I delete it with Spybot, but it is found again when
>I run Spybot again...apparently not really deleted. My recent problems began when
>PurityScan arrived. Spybot lists it as: PurityScan: Software HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\PurityScan
> It's referred to as a Registry Key. PopUPs now even occured when I have the Internet
>shut down!! Thank you for helping. Bob
>
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>On Friday, March 12, 2004 at 5:45 pm, MrCharlie wrote:
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>>Download and run a scan of your system using HiJackThis.exe.
>>Scan your system then hit the save button, save it in notepad. Then copy and post
>>the log back Here. Be patient and I will look at it. MrC
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>>On Friday, March 12, 2004 at 7:11 am, Bob wrote:
>>>I have picked up something and now my computer sends numerous (and I mean numerous!)pop-up
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>>>ads. Of course, the primary ad offers to sell a pop-up prevention download. Clever.
>
>>>The various names and companies offering downloads and such are: iDownload;QuickSheild;
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>>>UnitedSoftware; CoolBar.com; Adserver. I've run my updated CWShreader, SpyGuard
>>and
>>>the useful Spybot. I have a cable connection. Any thoughts?
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