Posted on 12/06/2010 9:34:59 AM PST by piytar
Running Windows XP with Microsoft Security Essentials and Ad-Aware for protection. Getting random nasty (and I mean nasty) pron ads and links popping up. Sec Essentials and Ad-Aware scans show zilch. About to go through the misery of the Major Geek/Hijack This cleaning process, which takes hours (but does work). Thought I'd ask here first if anyone knew of a specific new pron virus/bot that's making the rounds. If so, it might help me clean it out quicker. Thanks!
PS I do searches for manufacturing for certain clients, so I end up on Chinese mfg sites a bit. (Trying to buy American, but done a search for mfg lateley? You get a LOT of hits in China et al.) Wonder if one of those was "dirty"? Does that help anyone id the virus/bot?
LOL, well, I don’t surf pron. But now it’s apparently surfing pron all on it own, which is rather annoying. Or it was doing that until I disabled the networking. The didn’t work well - computer is ggoooooiiiiiinnnngggggg ssssslllllooooowwwwwwllllly now.
Fortunately, it’s my designated computer for doing searches that might take me places I don’t know (e.g., China) or don’t trust (e.g., Dummies et al). Just going to use Disk Eraser to nuke it clean and then re-install. I.e., I’m giving up.
Thank God that I run my biz on a different and more up-to-date computer. (And I’ve got my Blackberry, too, which I’m using here.)
Hold on a minute. Try these two links first.
CC Cleaner. It’s free (although they ask for a donation).
http://www.piriform.com/?utm_source=ccleaner.com&utm_medium=redirect
And or Advance System Care ($17 a year well worth it).
http://download.cnet.com/Advanced-SystemCare-Free/3000-2086_4-10407614.html
You know, I use CC Cleaner on my main biz computer. Didn’t think of running it on the infected one. D’oh! Think I’ll do that tonight after biz is done. Def can’t hurt.
If that doesn’t work (and a couple other suggestions above, maybe), then it’s nuke it time...
Final thought. Check out this article about Browser security.
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/12/05/visited-porn-web-browser-flaw-secretly-bares/
bookmark for later disasters
And UPDATED CCleaner immediately followed by Disk Eraser nuking all “unused space” WINS! Not sure which did it, but problem GONE! Thanks to all for help/suggestions!!!
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