Help please. Annoying pop-up screen even when IE isn't open. Occurring every 1hr
 

Hi There,

I'm not a geek so please be kind to me :o , but I was hoping someone out there might know what could be causing this problem.

Something happened yesterday morning (I don't know what, sorry) but ever since I've been getting an IE window pop-up appearing every hour (the URL for this is http://content.netvenda.com/sites/fg...l?file=games14 ) - don't go there, just showing.

I went out last night so shut down pretty much everything, all of my internet apps, so outlook, IE, ICQ, YIM, MSN Messenger and when I came back there were 3 of the above mentioned pop-up on my screen.

I've rebooted and it's still appearing? What do I do?

Any ideas would be much appreciated.

(had to edit, should have read the forum notices first!)

OS: Windows XP, V5.1, service pack 1
Processor: AMD 2400
motherboard: Soltek SL-75FRV
RAM: 512k
HD: 80 mg, non partitioned

Browser: IE V6.0.2800


Thanks,
Julie

Go download AdAware (http://www.lavasoftusa.com/) and run it against your computer.

Chances are, you accidentally downloaded spyware that keeps on making popups appear on your computer.

Thanks Pragma, you're a star. :)

Also, get Sbybot. It'll find some things that Ad Aware doesn't catch.

No problem. Happy to help out people with computer issues.

1 vote for spybot, although ad aware is good stuff too

If its windows messenger service, i dunno if any of the spy programs check for that.

just turn it off you dont need it, do

go to the " start / run " menu
type- >
services.msc

then look for "messenger" service and disable it, nothing really needs it.
(right click it, select properties then set the startup type to disabled)
after you do that, right click 'messenger" again and select "stop" if it is still running

This is not the same as MSN messenger, so dont worry about disabling that

the new way of spreading spam, courtesy of MS.

If that fails get both Ad-aware and spy bot. they both catch stuff the other misses.

Heh, damn juan that was fast, i just realized that it could be clearer :) and was re-editing seconds after i posted it ;)

ad-aware caught something called rapidblaster which was an active process - cleaned it all up and robert's your mothers brother. All didn't realise how much porn I'd been looking at since last cookie cleanup!

I'll get spybot as well.

Thanks for the help :D

I would also scan you system for viruses now too.

I recommend using Ad-Aware and Spybot together, since one sometimes catches stuff that the other doesn't. Spybot can also block many future covert installations with its Immunize function.

Hey thanks charliex I kept running ad aware and it found everything but those msn boxes kept popping up

Don't forget spyware blaster.

http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html

SpywareBlaster

SpywareBlaster doesn't scan and clean for spyware - it prevents it from ever being installed.