re: Pop-Ups by the Billions!
Sunday, March 14, 2004 at 3:39 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by MrCharlie
(4141 messages posted)
Good deal!, I did check out and run the uninstaller myself and thought it was safe.
Most of them do work, glad to see you're back to normal. To prevent problems like
this, use the Immunize feature in Spybot and you should also install SpywareBlaster.
Good Luck - MrC
On Saturday, March 13, 2004 at 7:56 pm, Bob wrote:
>
>Sorry to bother you again. I did run the Uninstall offered by PurityScan. (That
made
>me nervous since they were the source of my troubles). Anyway, after running Spybot
>again, PurityScan no longer is identified. Simultaneously, the hawh.exe application
>no longer shows up in my startup...and the Popups have stopped. So maybe I'm fixed
>unless this thing "morphs". Thank you for your help and expertise. Bob
>
>
>On Saturday, March 13, 2004 at 9:42 am, MrCharlie wrote:
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>>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
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>>EvenMoreInfo
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>>
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>>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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>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
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>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
>
>>>
>>>>>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;
>
>>>
>>>>>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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