Finally- Battman claims victory over the adware!

[dbattman 0]

After five days, multiple virus scans, adaware, spybot, yahoo! anti-spyware, about a dozen others recommended in various anti-malware forums I have finally located and deleted the pesky sumbitch that pops up those stupid IE ads when I'm online.

Hijackthis! rocks.

[stewey voice] Victory is mine! [/stewey voice]

Needless to say if I ever meet one of the people that write these things I might just pop him in the nose.

Edited: doh! wrong forum.

[Royd 0]

Stay out of those porn sites.

[two40 0]

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After five days, multiple virus scans, adaware, spybot, yahoo! anti-spyware, about a dozen others recommended in various anti-malware forums I have finally located and deleted the pesky sumbitch that pops up those stupid IE ads when I'm online.

Hijackthis! rocks.

[stewey voice] Victory is mine! [/stewey voice]

Needless to say if I ever meet one of the people that write these things I might just pop him in the nose.

Edited: doh! wrong forum.

how did you do it? my brother gets IE ad pop ups every so often.

[dbattman 0]

Run Hijackthis! and it will step you through everything in the registry. If you see funny boject handlers and a strange program in the startup registry you don't recognize Bingo!

You can also download about a 54,000 line host file to redirect most popup ad attempts to your localhost.

AVG Antispyware has a good 'processes' and 'connections' section that will let you see if anything is connecting or listening on ports.

You can also try to 'Dance the Security Tango' at securitytango.com.

[tonyhays 86]

Or use firefox...i very rarely get popups with it.

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