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Title: getting popup adds with htc home only
Post by: Citabria on November 11, 2003, 08:23:02 PM

http://8ad.com/ad.php?code=game

this url comes up with varrying popup adds when i open htcs homepage

Title: getting popup adds with htc home only
Post by: Citabria on November 11, 2003, 08:24:31 PM

is this htc add or is my pc spammed with popups?

no other pages do this

Title: getting popup adds with htc home only
Post by: Tarmac on November 11, 2003, 08:33:57 PM

No popups here.

Time for you to run ad-aware, it sounds like.

Title: getting popup adds with htc home only
Post by: DrDea on November 11, 2003, 08:49:12 PM

Do you use Microcraps messenger? If so some crap eating scumbags foind a loophole in it that lets them run this stuff.Ironicly they also direct you to a web page or 2 that lets you buy software to get rid of it.Try some spyware software.Should find it.Kazza also installs spyware.
Doc

Title: getting popup adds with htc home only
Post by: Hornet on November 11, 2003, 09:18:05 PM

turning off windows messaging kills most of it

Title: getting popup adds with htc home only
Post by: Virage on November 11, 2003, 10:40:53 PM

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Originally posted by Citabria
...or is my pc spammed with popups?

no popups for me either.  Adaware may get it off for u.

Title: getting popup adds with htc home only
Post by: Modas on November 12, 2003, 07:35:55 AM

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Originally posted by Hornet
turning off windows messaging kills most of it

Where would one find that in windows XP pro?

Title: getting popup adds with htc home only
Post by: Estes on November 12, 2003, 07:44:41 AM

Go into control panel/administrator settings.  Then go into services and turn it off. I'm sure there is other ways to do it, but that way worked for me.

-Edit- Faster way to do that is to goto start/run services.msc then disable messenger.

Title: getting popup adds with htc home only
Post by: moot on November 12, 2003, 09:05:56 AM

windows messenger is only system prompt-style windows, not a full url like http://8ad.com/ad.php?code=game.
Had the same ad portal wormed into my messenger-disabled pc, never did find it and never saw it again since I formatted.

Title: getting popup adds with htc home only
Post by: Skuzzy on November 12, 2003, 10:58:08 AM

It's not us.  These programs get planted in your computer's IE temp directory and they associate with whatever happens to be there.
Once they do this, everytime you open that page, they run.  Nasty little bastiages.

Title: getting popup adds with htc home only
Post by: bockko on November 12, 2003, 01:42:17 PM

skuzzy, i have a squaddie battling a serious case of pop-ups...any recommendation for cleansing the ones you are refering to?

thks

Title: getting popup adds with htc home only
Post by: Seeker on November 12, 2003, 02:50:22 PM

microsoft's answer (http://www.microsoft.com/WindowsXP/pro/using/howto/communicate/stopspam.asp)

Title: getting popup adds with htc home only
Post by: Skuzzy on November 12, 2003, 04:31:23 PM

I have never had a computer get these popup problems, so I really cannot personally make a recommendation for getting rid of them.

However, I have said all along that the Messenger service must be disabled to help protect you from some of them.

I think Adaware and Spybot, when used in conjunction, might help, but I cannot swear to it.

Title: getting popup adds with htc home only
Post by: BigGun on November 14, 2003, 03:42:10 PM

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Originally posted by Skuzzy
I think Adaware and Spybot, when used in conjunction, might help, but I cannot swear to it.

I recently had problem with pop-ups, ran both of these programs, problem solved.

Title: getting popup adds with htc home only
Post by: Citabria on November 14, 2003, 05:03:20 PM

yeah ad-aware and spybot did the trick they killed off those bastard popups no problem

Title: getting popup adds with htc home only
Post by: spiffykraits on November 15, 2003, 11:13:36 AM

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Originally posted by Citabria
yeah ad-aware and spybot did the trick they killed off those bastard popups no problem

Spybot has an "immunize" setting which stops 'em getting in in the first place. Highly recommended.   If your curious the bad download blocker for IE does stop a lot in the immunize section, and with your option setting on that to display a dialoque when something trys to, you can see what they are. It's surprising how many sites have this spyware.

Title: Getting rid of messenger
Post by: NOJACK on November 23, 2003, 12:19:53 AM

I found this on a BB and it seems to work pretty well to get rid of messenger.  Copy it into run and hit enter and, Viola! Messenger seems to be gone.  Then I run msconfig and disable it in services.  Seems to work for me anyway.  What do you think Skuzzy?  NOJACK



RunDll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection %windir%\INF\msmsgs.inf,BLC.Remove

Title: getting popup adds with htc home only
Post by: wrag on November 24, 2003, 04:21:44 AM

One more that you may find useful is a preventor.  Keeps em off your machine all together!

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

I use all three!  

Even so every now and then one sneaks through so I keep up the updates and scan with AdAware AND SpyBot Search and Destroy almost everytime i go on the net!!!!!

Title: getting popup adds with htc home only
Post by: Sarge1 on November 24, 2003, 07:35:57 PM

same here , I run  all three adware6plus , spybot and spyblaster seems to keep all of them at check, and when your on sites keep ad watch-3 what you get with adware plus ..the pay version of adaware seems to pick up more.. I gave it to a friend that had the free one and when he ran the paid for one, it seem to find more than the free version. but thats what it looked like to me