Help, I'm infected

Skkorpion

Grey haired old Bird
LEGACY MEMBER
Supporting Member
Joined
May 9, 2002
Posts
11,026
Reaction score
5
Location
Sun City, AZ
I'm infected with 6 things McAfee doesn't find and Ad-aware finds but can't kill. They are hot_key popups that just keep popping up windows for ad killing software, big russian breast web sites, real-estate web sites, and everything from poll-taking to free coupons for grocery store use.

I have McAfee Firewall, Virus protection, and Privacy protection. I bought and downloaded ad-aware.

Five different people get their e-mail here on my lap top in my cabin and I can't tell them not to open any attachments or highlighted urls in their e-mails.

How do I get disinfected?
 

Nick C

Amazing
Joined
May 15, 2002
Posts
203
Reaction score
0
Location
Glendale, AZ
Make sure you have the lastet updates from Ad-aware.

Try to reboot your computer in safe mode (holding down f8 while restarting)
Run ad-aware in safe mode and see if it can remove it.

It seems to have worked for me.
 

az240zz

ASFN Lifer
Joined
Sep 11, 2002
Posts
3,314
Reaction score
542
Skkorpion said:
I'm infected with 6 things McAfee doesn't find and Ad-aware finds but can't kill. They are hot_key popups that just keep popping up windows for ad killing software, big russian breast web sites, real-estate web sites, and everything from poll-taking to free coupons for grocery store use.

I have McAfee Firewall, Virus protection, and Privacy protection. I bought and downloaded ad-aware.

Five different people get their e-mail here on my lap top in my cabin and I can't tell them not to open any attachments or highlighted urls in their e-mails.

How do I get disinfected?

You could try Lysol or 409 cleaner! :rolleyes:

Not a good advertisement for the great outdoors. Bring your laptop and it gets infected.

az240z
 

Staff online

Forum statistics

Threads
559,250
Posts
5,462,278
Members
6,337
Latest member
rattle
Top