Dual Webers Suck Posted May 20, 2004 Report Share Posted May 20, 2004 Earlier today, for some reason or another, a Lycos search bar icon came onto my desktop, which lead me to believe I had spyware on my computer. I ran a freshly updated AdAware, deleted something like 116 files (Wow! I downloaded NOTHING intentionally since the couple days before when I last ran AdAware.), and I proceed to go to Google. Search for something, I get a popup ONLY when I search, and it's a page advertising whatever word I happen to search for. I tested it with other search engines, and they all do the same thing. I ran AdAware again, and it caught nothing. I ran SpyBot and it found some more stuff, but it didn't fix my problem. I looked in MSConfig, and nothing out of the ordinary is loading. Can ANYBODY tell me how to get rid of this?! I apologize in advance for any spelling or grammatical mistakes, and if the paragraph needs spaced better. I'm tired, sorry. smile.gif Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam1647545489 Posted May 20, 2004 Report Share Posted May 20, 2004 try rebooting Adware erases stuff sometimes when you reboot also. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nate1647545505 Posted May 20, 2004 Report Share Posted May 20, 2004 try add/remove programs, see if anything comes up there... might want to check your internet settings and reset em all back to default... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nitrousbird Posted May 20, 2004 Report Share Posted May 20, 2004 Also download from download.com Spybot - Search and Destroy. Run the updates on that. It can usually catch a few things Ad Aware won't. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xxxShaftxxx Posted May 20, 2004 Report Share Posted May 20, 2004 Download trojan hunter and run it. It has a free 30 day evaluation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpaceGhost Posted May 20, 2004 Report Share Posted May 20, 2004 Use Pest Patrol, Adaware and others do not get rid of LOPs, Pest Patrol Does. I can serve you a zip file of it if you want to download it from my server. I will not be able to do that until tonight. e-mail me @ bbotte@insight.rr.com and I can give you the address and instructions. [ 20. May 2004, 10:43 PM: Message edited by: WRallyBlue02 ] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wease Posted May 20, 2004 Report Share Posted May 20, 2004 My daughter got on my PC the other day and did God knows what. I had popups and a host of other things going on. I tried AdAware, then SpyBot, and I still had problems. Then I went to www.download.com and downloaded Bazooka Adware and Spyware Scanner 1.12. It won't remove the spyware, but it does find everything that's still on your PC. If you click on what it finds, it will take you to a web page that tells you how to manually remove it. 2 hours later, after messing with registry entries, I was completely spyware free and back to normal. graemlins/thumb.gif So if either of those don't work 100%, try Bazooka and do it manually like I did. Good luck... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest StackDump2003 Posted May 20, 2004 Report Share Posted May 20, 2004 I ran a spyware sweep on a buddies pc... 1207 different pieces of spyware!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dual Webers Suck Posted May 21, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 21, 2004 I appreciate everybodys help. PestPatrol got rid of it for me. Wease, I will download those programs anyways just in case something else ever pops up and I can't get rid of it. Thanks again everybody for the help! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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