Posted: 10/12/2008 12:20:14 AM EDT
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Was just surfing ARFCOM on Mozilla 3.0, Mozilla started to run REAL slow. Had to click on a button like three times to get things to respond. So, I opened up an ARFCOM window in Internet Explorer. This is where everything goes to hell. Entire computer starts running slow, and I start getting popups like mad. First time in months this has happened. I open the task manager, and Mozilla is taking 500,000k to run. It also changes my desktop background from a nice picture of KevinB's AR ( the one with the Magpul CTR stock, KAC URX rail, S&B optic ), to a blue screen with an option to 'click here for spyware removal'. Then somehow my automatic updates for XP turns off. Then, Internet Explorer starts opening itself to a 'internet speed checker' popup-type window. Efforts to close it freeze the computer, and efforts to un-freeze it by opening the task manager make it worse. Restarts do no better. So I bought the full version of Ad Aware and downloaded it, and it finds a bunch of infections and removes it. 'Cool,' I think. But just when I think everything is fine, I restart the system and it happens all over again, more popups, more of those 'Internet speed checker' windows. No pron related ones, just general bullshit. So I run Ad Aware in a deep scan, it catches a bunch more, and it has slowed things down, but I'm still getting the occasional self-opening window, Mozilla is running slow as a mother, and I'm out $65. What the hell is there left to do? I need a nuclear option here folks. Not tannernite, but something that will purge this computer of all evil. For the record, its a Sony VIAO FJ-270 that has worked flawlessly for me for over two years. Please help! S/F |
Don't ask me how I know.
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Another asshole (Not You) hacker that enjoyes destroying other peoples property and right to happiness. Your computer is infected with a virus, worm or trojan. Your problem is not Ad-ware related other than the virus downloading and opening ad-ware on your computer. You downloaded something and opened it allowing it to execute and infect your computer. It could have been anything from a picture, a movie to a Java script Popup you clicked on. Did you have Anti-Virus software installed? Your next option is to use McAfee or Norton AV to scan for viruses. Go to their site. They usually have a way to download a basic DOS based virus tool to use when your computer boots. It doesn't allow Windows to boot and will scan for viruses and clean them. Also, do not try copying files to diskettes or CD's or anything else or connecting the computer to a network. Viruses will be transfered. Good Luck. |