Adware.

[Bobby Sands]

Recently a shit load of ad ware and trojan horses have been put on my computer.Could they be from this site with them pop ups?I also downloaded AIM the other day.Could it be off that?

Is so annoying.My computer is infested.I ran the anti-virus just now and it got rid of some stuff but there is still stuff there..

 

[Rukas]

Nope, none of the pop ups install anything. If you clicked on them, went to their pages and installed shit there, then yes, maybe, Im not responsible for what is on the other pages.

Most likely however you got it from porn sites.

 

[Illuminattile]

Recently a shit load of ad ware and trojan horses have been put on my computer.Could they be from this site with them pop ups?I also downloaded AIM the other day.Could it be off that?

Is so annoying.My computer is infested.I ran the anti-virus just now and it got rid of some stuff but there is still stuff there..

As long as you downloaded AIM from a reputable site, it's not that either.

Anti-virus programs aren't built to remove spyware. You need an anti-spyware program. Download one (or preferably all) from the list in the Tech Talk Knowledge Base.

 

[Bobby Sands]

Well i havent been on porn sites in a while now.All these pop ups and being redirected to ad ware web sites just started happenin the day b4 yesterday.

 

[Cooper]

If it ask's you to install something from a pop-up...say n'o'

 

[Bobby Sands]

It never has.It installed itself.

 

[Cooper]

things don't 'install themselves'

 

[Bobby Sands]

Well Trojan Horse.Installers install other software on ur computer without ur consent.Thats what i meant.

I got a few spyware programs.I ran them,and the amount of fuckin shit that was on my computer.scary.There was one password stealer trojan horse or whatever which im particularly worried about.

Every time i run the spyware programmes,they detect stuff that it didnt detect on the previous scan.Why is this.I did the 2nd scan straight after the first.

 

[Dante]

buy a mac, or don't run mystery programs. easy cheesy.

 

[Cooper]

the second option is proably most cost effective.

 

[Bobby Sands]

I dont run mystery programs.Its ok now anyway most of the spyware seems to be gone although if im looking at a web page,it sometimes will change to some ad website.thanx for the help.

 

[Rumsfield]

Lavasofts Ad-aware Personal is free and a good program to have.
IMO-alot better then norton and the other more well known virus scans.
Mostly everyone at my company uses Ad-aware and here at home I find it picks up on alot of spyware that norton doesn't...go figure.

or....you can just take Dante's advice and just don't run mystery programs.

About twice a month my father will call me about some kind of computer related problem he's having......usually its just spyware picked up by looking at porn, odd emails being opened(people just delete them for cryin out loud), those ever lovable pop-up add's(no offense streethop).....and sometimes just downloading multimedia related stuff and opening them to try and play them will instantly install spyware/viruses without any notification to the "casual" computer user.

stay up to date on your scandisk, disk defrag, virus definitions, and every so often check what processes/tasks you have running when things start going crazy on your computer.

ok, im done now...lol

 

[Bobby Sands]

Yea,thanx,i got ad-aware.There is still some shit thats not being detected.but most of its gone.