The best thing to do would be to use Mozilla Firefox http://www.mozilla.org I've been using this for months and I've had no spyware, I run ad aware and use Ie, and in about a week it's crawling with spyware. GET FIREFOX

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I know those goods and they're a gift from heaven .

Thx to the makers of them , and to the poster of this thread

alright so I downloaded and ran all four of those programs and I still have a couple of stupid things called Home Search and Extended Search that I can't get rid of in the add/remove program thing and won't leave after running these programs!

i prefer adaware and bps spyware remover. its effective for me.

also, upgrade to windows xp sp2

woah...spybots everywhere..thanks guys for the help !

And TFP comes through for me once again! Thanks.

microsoft antispyware beta

Another important thing, especially if you have broadband internet, is the use of a hardware/NAT firewall. It won't help with nastys that install themselves through IE/Firefox, but it will help against virus & popups sent in other ways (Windows Messenger, for example).

I just downloaded ad-aware and it found 49 objects.

I'm not really sure how this works, I took the free version so does this mean i have to do manual updates? Manual scans? and does it work like anti virus and blocks anything that try's to get onto my system? Or do i have to scan like 5 times a day to keep my system cleaned?

Thanks.

I don't think that any spyware scanners will block spyware. Spybot-S&D comes with its "Resident" which watches your registry for changes to startup programs. The best way to keep your system spyware-free is to not use IE, use a firewall, and watch what sites you go to and what you download.

Thanks..I thought this was a program that i needed to keep open at all times.

I have nothing bad to say about IE, This is the first time ever i have had spyware remover on this system (New) and never had it on my old computer (roughly 5 years)..And i have never really had any problems at all.

I just thought i would get spyware remover just to be safe as this is a new system.

Even on my old system i went atleast 2 years without anti virus and just a firewall, Then decided i should get some anti virus..got home scanned the whole system and it was clean :D

Anyone else notice some sites have found ways around Firefox's popup blocker? Ive been getting a few popunders here and there recently.

all of those programs are so cool!!! unfortunately they can't remove the spyware on my pc right now

I still keep getting pop-ups. I have wondows xp sp2, ad-aware se, pop-up stopper pro, and adware away. What else do I need? Everytime i place counter-strike, pop-ups keep coming up and i still don't know how to stop them. Is my computer hacked?

You may have some malware running that

a) doesn't get cleared/detected by your anti-spybot stuff
b) is actually a virus. have you downloaded an AV program?

Your only recourse in some cases is to rebuild the computer from scratch.

Also, are you running from behind a firewall? If so - you don't have the DMZ turned on for your computer, do you? Some people do this to make gaming easier...but what it really does is put your computer -- naked, so to speak -- directly out on the net.

Yeah, as Firefox gets more popular, people start working on ways around teh popup blocker.

Using flash to launch a new window seems popular.

I feel good. I just cleaned my computer of any VD's with adware, spyware and pop up blockers.
lifes good with a faster computer.

I recently had something like this. I had some nasty stuff that kept regenerating "ebates" registry entries. And some program called elitehzd32.exe kept embedding itself in my system process. Ad-Aware, Spybot, and HijackThis were powerless. I had to reformat... the day after reformatting. That was a record for me.

Every 10-15 seconds, an ad would popup. Made games unplayable.

I tried that site, and it was so slow I had to stop. It took 5 minutes to scan 60 files. Maybe I need to try at a different time of day?

http://housecall.trendmicro.com/ works best with internet explorer.. its the only time i ever use IE! the 6.0 beta version will clean viruses and spywares.

had the same problem, installed full mcafee suite and no problems

wow! nice info! I just wished I would have read this topic a week ago. had to do a factory restore of a pc at the office last week due to the popups and homepage hijacking, even after running adaware, and spybot s&d. thanks for the tips, will definitely come in handy next time...

My mother's computer is now protected. Thanks!

Hi-Jack This works great if Adaware or Norton cant detect the spyware. Just choose what shouldnt be running

I've found spybot, adaware and even hijack this to be ineffective against my recent incredibly stupid act. Long live ewido.

Hi eveybody,, hope somebody can help me.. lately when surfing around the web and well truthfully around some adult sites, I go to click on a link and it will take me to a different site, but the page url iswww.accessbestpharmacy.com, but the actual website that loads is something different, so that when clinking on links in that site it will always bring up a google search for just random things.. I've used sypot, adaware, hijack this,, but seems to find nothing. Although when i used spybot, it found some www.accessbestpharmacy.com urls, but i delted them.. they never came back but i'm still having the same problem.... anybody else have this??? thanks for the help

(Sigh) After years of being careful, I let my guard down and installed software from a questionable source and now I am greeted daily by some porn pop-up (even while IE and Firefox are closed)

Thanks for this thread... hope I can scrub this one out...

Jason

Im having similar problems as jusolson00.
for me ad-aware doesnt seem to want to finish running. that or it pauses halfway for an extremely long time...

even with tfproject.org, i have to type that into the search, then click the link. f i type it into my address bar, it says page not found.
Advice would be appreciated!

my homepage got hijacked a while back and after a frustrating effort to fix it I just deleted the shortcut to IE onthe desktop and drag/dropped the homepage link to Comcast to the desktop where the IE shortcut used to be.

may be a ghetto solution but it works for me...any reason why it's a bad solution ?
the hijacker was this :
es://shdocpl.dll/blank.htm < don't click on this !

this this has come up again and again recently:

A new program to fight against malware of all kinds.

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