Bombed with Pop-ups!

[Galant]

Okay, before shouting Adaware, Spybot etc. - I've tried them.

Yesterday on my work computer I got blitzed with pop-ups. COuld be something to do with a was engaging in some downloads and inadvertently gave permission to an ad company.

We've figured out that the pop-ups are related to an online site called 680180, or something similar.

Spybot doesn't do squat, nor the others. Something obviously got installed, and now I can't use IE without getting bombarded. Hence, I'm reaching you via Mozilla Firefox.

Any ideas?

[da_ging]

first download this and see if it fixes it if not*

http://www.spychecker.com/program/coolwebshredder.html

*download this do a scan and show us the log file

http://www.spychecker.com/program/hijackthis.html

[DaBeeeenster]

http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/

[ajbrun]

Get a popup blocker. When I was looking for one, I found LOADS that came with toolbars, but I didn't want another toolbar, because that meant less space. I eventually found something called popthis! It's free (although there's a payed version too with more features, and it lives in the tools menu. The status (popups allowed or not) can be changed easily by opening it and ticking a box.

Link to a site to choose to download free/payed version

[Shogun]

You tried hijack this? It should show up anything that is running and should be able to kill it from there. If you can get it and show us a screenie of what is listed im sure we could find the bad one Also clear out your temp internet files as that fixes it sometimes with me.

[ajbrun]

But no program that "cleans" your PC gets rid of EVERYTHING! Yes, you need one of those, but a popup blocker will help too.

[Rob]

TRY THIS!

[rough_neck]

Have you tried CWShredder?

[MD]

I know its a dumb question but you have checked add/remove programs for the item I take it?

Also check in C:\WINDOWS\Downloaded Program Files and make sure there is nothing there you do not recognise.

Alternatively....If you are running Windows XP, go to start >> run >> msconfig, go to the start up tab and take a look and see if you have any totally blank lines with a tick on the left hand side, fi you do take the tick out and reboot. These are usually malicious stuff.

m@