Punks in Ontario Posted December 31, 2013 Share Posted December 31, 2013 I keep getting popups that my antivirus is blocking followed by little popup ads in the bottom corner of my screen almost every time I open a new tab. And here on the forum I have red underlined words with links to ads ( like I can look glamorous with a babe on my hip and make $360/day.) I've tried running scans, power eraser and I still can't find the stupid thing. :cursing: I'd love some ideas to try. I know this board has some varied and amazing talents. Is this one of them? (looking for a begging and pleading emoticon, but not finding any). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoughCollie Posted December 31, 2013 Share Posted December 31, 2013 Try downloading, updating, and running Malwarebytes. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click on the free version. http://www.malwarebytes.org/lp/lp4/?gclid=CPaUsrv02rsCFSVgMgodDHkAKw Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Punks in Ontario Posted December 31, 2013 Author Share Posted December 31, 2013 I thought Norton did this. I've never had any problems until about 3 days ago. Wouldn't have been so bad, but our other PC just died of a virus (don't ask). They show up in chrome which I usually use, and firefox. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Punks in Ontario Posted December 31, 2013 Author Share Posted December 31, 2013 Try downloading, updating, and running Malwarebytes. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click on the free version. http://www.malwarebytes.org/lp/lp4/?gclid=CPaUsrv02rsCFSVgMgodDHkAKw Trying that now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 31, 2013 Share Posted December 31, 2013 It's been a long time since I ran windows, but we used three antispyware programs: ad-aware, spybot, and spywareblaster. I think at one time we needed hijackthis to get rid of all the nasties, but we never had to reformat over adware and we even survived a serious Gator infestation. I'm going to be nice instead of evangelical, but in a pinch, you can always boot from a live CD like Knoppix or Simply Mepis (my favourite newbie distro) temporarily to save your files and/or go online to find out more about how to save your windows installation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vonfirmath Posted December 31, 2013 Share Posted December 31, 2013 I LOVE Malwarebytes. AFter I got hit by something twice in 2 weeks that my Anti-virus didn't catch, I bought a Malwarebytes license for each of our 3 computers and we've had nothing slip through since yet. (2010 I believe) ETA: Both times the free version of Malwarebytes FIXED the infection... once I could get it loaded and running. The particular attack we had tried to prevent that! But I was tired of dealing with it and would rather not have the infection in the first place. To keep Malwarebytes always running you have to buy a license. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wapiti Posted December 31, 2013 Share Posted December 31, 2013 Malwarebytes got mine off. If that doesn't work, search your hard drive for "adpeak" and I'm trying to remember the name of the related one.. spark-something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Punks in Ontario Posted December 31, 2013 Author Share Posted December 31, 2013 I'm still running the scan. This will take a loooong time. Thanks so much for all the help. I'll let you know how it turns out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 31, 2013 Share Posted December 31, 2013 What does the pop up say? Is it redirecting pages when you try to go somewhere? The site www.bleepingcomputer.com lists lots of viruses and the steps to removing them. They saved my computer big time a while back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LizzyBee Posted December 31, 2013 Share Posted December 31, 2013 Try downloading, updating, and running Malwarebytes. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click on the free version. http://www.malwarebytes.org/lp/lp4/?gclid=CPaUsrv02rsCFSVgMgodDHkAKw Thanks! I am running this too! We have an adware infection on our desktop computer and I wasn't sure what to do about it. ETA: 263 malicious files and folders were found and deleted. YAY! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mergath Posted December 31, 2013 Share Posted December 31, 2013 I've never had much luck with most of the freebies like Malwarebytes or AVG. If I suspect some kind of infestation, I go right to Combofix. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Punks in Ontario Posted January 1, 2014 Author Share Posted January 1, 2014 Malwarbytes got most of it!!! :hurray: :hurray: I had to finish a bit manually, but at least I knew what I was looking for. Thanks you sooo much for the help. I'll refer back here if I still have problems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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