Dear god.

[Chainsy]

Ok, run down of the current situation. Browsing the web on Firefox, 2 normal sites up, modacity, and coceptart.org. Well the browser freezes for like 5 minutes until I get ctrl alt delete up and end the process. Of course, being the lazy whore I am, when it asks if I want to restore session, I click yes. It comes up and 3 tabs appear. Two are the normal site, the third, was a list of codes, and focusing on xing out of this tab, a box appears saying acrobat could not complete the task, I hurriedly click ok, and the shit hits the fan. Every 10 to 20 seconds, a pop up will appear, not in a stupid window, but in the actual browser, using the tabs. It also effects my internet explorer, but only very rarely, they mostly come up from firefox tabs. Well, thinking it is no big deal, I go to system restore-- to find it turned off. So now I have no previous checkpoint to restore to. My next option is to go to my antivirus, which I scan and find 12 viruses total, 11 of them deleted and one nasty trojan that could only be blocked. So with the help of kirby, I went into safemode and went into system 32 and got rid of the trojan manually. Thinking all is well I restart the computer. First thing I see is a fucking pop up! Now I go into ad-aware, thinking this is adware, and I scan, find all these cookies and shit, and delete them. So after another virus scan, I come up clean, I restart the computer again. Well by now I am very frustrated, as I do not have the fastest computer in the world, and with the constant windows open, it was majorly slowing down my computer, making these scans take 2 hours. And, of course, the first thing I see are pop ups. My computer literally overloaded yesterday when I went out for 2 hours, because so many pop ups came up by themselves over that time, my computer could not handle them. Can someone please give me some advice on how I could get rid of these pop ups!?!?

[ShadowSpartan]

I would suggest just wiping out your hard drive. That's the only way to make sure it is 100% clean of viruses.

[LlamaMaster]

I got raided with viruses similar to yours a few days ago, but I took action immediately and I ***think*** I have it under control. I just did I full scan with AVG, but yours seems alot more serious. May god/science be with you.

[Chainsy]

Ugh, you see, I got that same reply about 2 months ago when I was infected, but eventually found a way to get it stabilized. If it comes down to it I will clear it, but I tend to make sure in every way possible that there is not another way.

[ShadowSpartan]

To be honest, it would be a lot faster to just wipe your hard drive. Just think of how much time you have spent on doing scans so far, and how much more time you will have to spend on them. That time would be better spent on backing up your files you need, then reinstalling windows. That is just my opinion though, do whatever you want.

[Chainsy]

Well here is something interesting, while on safe mode, if I open firefox, the pop ups appear, but if I open IE, no pop ups.
On normal mode the pop ups continue to appear over and over, regardless if I have a broswer up or not.
On safemode they only appear if I have the firefox broswer up.
Any ideas?

[Limited]

BHO's?

That sucks, I was surfing the internet other day, went on google and accidently clicked on a wrong link, turns out it was a netsky virus and had the whole palava of having to delete that. Stay vigilante, you dont always need to wipe hard drive, if you do, dont put any old files onto the recently wiped, otherwise they might be infected and you dont actually clean it.

[Chainsy]

I tend to usually ride out the virus and find some way to stop it, so indeed I will.

[Kalub]

I farted.



Dude, your best bet is to run a Hijackthis, and then just have a log parser tell you what the fuck is running. Then go from there. Don't let your anti-virus "search" when the answer is right in front of you, who knows, it may not even find it.

[Chainsy]

Ok, virus scanner found it, some adware sitting in documents and settings in junk folder where I send .rars such as map files. Have to go into safemode and manually delete it though.

[rossmum]

I occasionally get popup spam when I close IE while it's loading a page, but I just task manage that shit to death.