New form of Bad Pop Up's - help

[hammersley]

I'm getting a new form of Pop Up that doesn't have a way to easy eliminate them. What are these called and what can you do about them??????

 

[ToolManTimTaylor]

http://www.ad-aware.com



r download here

 

[hammersley]

Thanks a million - Tim

am loading the beast now = hope that stops this BS!

 

[snowracer69]

I like NoAds better than AdAware... it is only for popups, whereas I think Adaware also works as a firewall. I had problems with Adaware the couple of times I've tried to use it. Not so with NoAds... it just does it's job.

 

[lschultz]

I put adware on the puter here at the house and it stops 9. 999% of them. I think Steve had a link to it a while back.

 

[Royk]

So Larry, it allows 90. 001% through? Doesn’t sound too good to me!



Actually AdAware isn't designed to stop popups so much as it is to detect and delete "malware" from your system. It detects and removes spyware, advertising software, webpage hijacks (my personal “favorite”), etc. It can be run at startup of your PC and it will detect and remove all the bad stuff you picked-up last time you were online. AdAware is free. However I paid the extra $26. 95 for the Plus version which includes AdWatch. AdWatch prevents those bad things from getting on your PC in the first place, essentially leaving nothing for AdAware to detect and remove. You can read more detail about it at http://www.lavasoftusa.com/ .



I have a fantastic dedicated popup blocker at home. Unfortunately I’m at work right now and I can’t remember what it’s called. I have it load automatically along with AdAware when I start my PC. All I ever see is the splash screen for a few seconds as it starts, and then it hides itself in the background. I’ll try to remember to pay attention to the name of it next time it starts and I’ll post it here. One neat thing is you can set it to beep every time it blocks a popup. Kind of gratifying to hear those beeps instead of seeing piles of BS banners splashing themselves across your screen. Its like going to the advertisers!



Roy

 

[ToolManTimTaylor]

hammersley's Problem needs to be killed first with ad aware as he just may have (I guarantee it) a few Data miners that are baraging him with pop ups.



After all is clean go with Pop up dummy. I have had the absolute best of luck with them. This link is for that. I YET to have any popups to date.

 

[hammersley]

OK a little more help - please....

I downloaded POPUPDUMMY and it seems to work quit well - I also purchased AD-AWARE 6 ($29. 95) but I seem to still have some unusual popups. They seem to go away if I run AD-6 eachtime I turn on the PC. Hints as to what I'm doing wrong here?



BUT Please - I get an email telling me when someone responded to a message that's I'm tracking from the TDR - however NOW all of a sudden either POPUP or AD-6 makes a sound and I can't go to the TDR site... it's blocked somehow... . What do I have set wrong - any ideas?????

 

[ToolManTimTaylor]

Set the TDR in the safe zone area of POPUP dummy. Copy the link and paste it into that area as well as any other sites you frequently visit. You also can overide the protection by holding ctrl when clicking a link.

 

[slo-ryde]

Check the messenger service on your system. It's usually set to start automatically. Go to Start, Run, enter services. msc, scroll down to Messenger and check status.

 

[ToolManTimTaylor]

SLO is it the one that reads . .



Transmits net send and Alerter service messages between clients and servers. This service is not related to Windows Messenger. If this service is stopped, Alerter messages will not be transmitted. If this service is disabled, any services that explicitly depend on it will fail to start.



Messenger . . . why messenger if I may ask. Messenger in XP I allways thought was so when a program needed to be forced down the error reporting service had a way to report to the MSFT server.

 

[slo-ryde]

Originally posted by ToolManTimTaylor

SLO is it the one that reads . .



Transmits net send and Alerter service messages between clients and servers. This service is not related to Windows Messenger. If this service is stopped, Alerter messages will not be transmitted. If this service is disabled, any services that explicitly depend on it will fail to start.



Messenger . . . why messenger if I may ask. Messenger in XP I always thought was so when a program needed to be forced down the error reporting service had a way to report to the MSFT server.

Here's a link that does a fair job of describing what happens when the service is enabled:



http://www.itc.virginia.edu/desktop/docs/messagepopup/



The pop-ups are mostly a nuisance.

 

[slo-ryde]

Here's the spin from Microsoft on the Messenger service and possible security issues...



http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS03-043.mspx

 

[Deezul1]

by disabling Messenger I have eliminated almost all popups on mine and several other puters. Everything else still works good

 

[BigCarl64]

There are also some nasty trojans that are being planted by various websites. Some even hi-jack your hosts file and rewrite some windows critical . dll files and they cannot be removed by any of the popup/spyware programs currently available. It has to be manually removed by using the windows recovery console. Check out the VX2 trojan, very nasty. You will get redirects and popups from hell. You will need to use this program to find the files you need to delete.



VX2Finder

 

[Royk]

Here is a link to the popup blocker I mentioned earlier.



http://www.kolumbus.fi/eero.muhonen/FS/Download.htm



Roy

 

[Elite1]

I was getting hammered as well by these pop-ups... . thanks for the info.

 

[jarsong]

Originally posted by Royk

So Larry, it allows 90. 001% through? Doesn’t sound too good to me!



Actually AdAware isn't designed to stop popups so much as it is to detect and delete "malware" from your system. It detects and removes spyware, advertising software, webpage hijacks (my personal “favorite”), etc. It can be run at startup of your PC and it will detect and remove all the bad stuff you picked-up last time you were online. AdAware is free. However I paid the extra $26. 95 for the Plus version which includes AdWatch. AdWatch prevents those bad things from getting on your PC in the first place, essentially leaving nothing for AdAware to detect and remove. You can read more detail about it at http://www.lavasoftusa.com/ .



I have a fantastic dedicated popup blocker at home. Unfortunately I’m at work right now and I can’t remember what it’s called. I have it load automatically along with AdAware when I start my PC. All I ever see is the splash screen for a few seconds as it starts, and then it hides itself in the background. I’ll try to remember to pay attention to the name of it next time it starts and I’ll post it here. One neat thing is you can set it to beep every time it blocks a popup. Kind of gratifying to hear those beeps instead of seeing piles of BS banners splashing themselves across your screen. Its like going to the advertisers!



Roy

Yep, this REGISTERED version of Ad-Aware is all you need. I also run a google tool bar that has a simple pop up blocker. Spyware/popups are something of the past for my PC's. Best $26 buck I've spent in a long time. Also remember to update Ad-Aware detection files and set it to use customized scan instead of the smart scan so it scans ALL files on the HD. Read the manual to learn how to do this if your having trouble figuring it out. I have yet to have Ad-Aware miss on my PC's and friends PC's, this includes the free version linked in this thread. Even though I have the "Real TIme" ad watch function enabled I still run a full scan once a week. Usually find 1 or 2 innocent objects like a cookie.

jarsong

 

[Eventer]

There are several things you can do (all the software is free) that will stop nearly 100% of problems on your computer.



1) Hardware firewall with a router and NAT (Network Address Translation)



2) Software firewall - ZoneAlarm



3) Spybot Search & Destroy - new version coming soon



4) Ad-aware



5) Pest Patrol (The free version finds but does not fix problems. )



6) Anti-virus. I am using AVG (www.grisoft.com). It doesn't drag down your PC like Mcaffee or Norton do.



7) Like slo-ryde said, Messenger. If you take a look at www.blackviper.com you can find a list of all the services that do not need to be running (Disabled) and why. Messenger was designed to allow an admin to send you messages. It has been corrupted by others to send ads to your desktop. By blocking all unwanted services you are also increasing your security by minimizing the chances of an infection.



8) Firefox (www.mozilla.org) browser. If you use IE dump it. It is nothing but a haven for pop-ups and pop-unders. Firefox is stable in the 0. 8 version and has a built-in pop-blocker that works very well.



9) Extensions for Firefox - Get Adblocker (Tools | Options | Extensions then click on "Get Extensions"



10) Frequently check for updates for 2 - 6 above and especially Windows. Do this at least weekly.



11) Check out Linux. (My personal favorites are Red Hat Linux and SUSE Linux)