I swear, this thing is fucking possesed!

Captain tycho · Post by **Captain tycho** » 2004-04-04 01:25am

Seriously. I am getting spyware up the galoot, and whenever I type text it randomly decides to capitalize and tab.
Oh, and before you all cry out 'GET MOZILLA!' I have it.

Along with Spybot S&D, Adware, 2 firewalls, HijackThis! etc etc etc....and yet, everytime I start up my comp I am slammed with 500 popups and about 2 dozen toolbars.

Plus, it is no longer reading floppies OR cd drives, no matter what the fuck I do! And this comp is not even a year old!

darthdavid · Post by **darthdavid** » 2004-04-04 01:36am

Get rid of one of the firewalls. You'll just fuck up your system with 2 of em. With the remaining one, dissallow IE to connect to the net. Update all anti-spy programs and run system scans. Look through your program files and registries yourself for obvious spyware. Clear out the cache on all your browsers as well as their cookies.

Crayz9000 · Post by **Crayz9000** » 2004-04-04 01:41am

Which firewalls do you have?

The best is probably Kerio Personal Firewall v.2.

First thing to do is to unplug the network cable from your computer. That will prevent the popup program from loading the popups when you boot. Then you'll be free to try and clean the mess up.

Pu-239 · Post by **Pu-239** » 2004-04-04 01:54pm

Captain tycho wrote:Oh, and before you all cry out 'GET MOZILLA!' I have it.

Then get Linux.

Captain tycho · Post by **Captain tycho** » 2004-04-04 02:12pm

Pu-239 wrote:
Captain tycho wrote:Oh, and before you all cry out 'GET MOZILLA!' I have it.
Then get Linux.

My company's server doesn't support Linux, and I need it for everything I do (work-wise). So thats out.

Solauren · Post by **Solauren** » 2004-04-04 05:36pm

Uninstall Explorer and Reinstall it

Howedar · Post by **Howedar** » 2004-04-04 05:49pm

Reformat the entire box. Then do it right the first time.

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Pu-239 · Post by **Pu-239** » 2004-04-04 05:57pm

Solauren wrote:Uninstall Explorer and Reinstall it

Not possible.

Captain tycho · Post by **Captain tycho** » 2004-04-04 06:39pm

Howedar wrote:Reformat the entire box. Then do it right the first time.

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I just deleted IE, and wa-lah, no more popups.

Stupid demon spawn...

Crayz9000 · Post by **Crayz9000** » 2004-04-04 06:58pm

Well, deleting IE breaks all sorts of things in Windows... although to completely remove it, you need to take care of MSHTML.DLL as well (although that will really break Windows).

What I would do at this point, since you've apparently already deleted iexplore.exe, is to go through the registry and start deleting every reference to iexplore.exe you find.

darthdavid · Post by **darthdavid** » 2004-04-04 08:00pm

If you can figure out how to get windows to work right w/o ie then clue me in 'cause that's the holy grail of computers for quite a few people.

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » 2004-04-04 08:18pm

Hehehehehehe. I use IE and have no spyware. Eat that.

Uraniun235 · Post by **Uraniun235** » 2004-04-04 08:49pm

darthdavid wrote:If you can figure out how to get windows to work right w/o ie then clue me in 'cause that's the holy grail of computers for quite a few people.

Depends on what version of Windows you want to run... if you want to run Win9x/ME without IE then you should look into Lite98.

Crayz9000 · Post by **Crayz9000** » 2004-04-04 09:04pm

Uraniun235 wrote:
darthdavid wrote:If you can figure out how to get windows to work right w/o ie then clue me in 'cause that's the holy grail of computers for quite a few people.
Depends on what version of Windows you want to run... if you want to run Win9x/ME without IE then you should look into Lite98.

Or just look up the article on CNN.com that tells you how to remove Internet Explorer yourself.

Captain tycho · Post by **Captain tycho** » 2004-04-05 12:01am

Crayz9000 wrote:
Uraniun235 wrote:
darthdavid wrote:If you can figure out how to get windows to work right w/o ie then clue me in 'cause that's the holy grail of computers for quite a few people.
Depends on what version of Windows you want to run... if you want to run Win9x/ME without IE then you should look into Lite98.
Or just look up the article on CNN.com that tells you how to remove Internet Explorer yourself.

Article?

*begs for a link*

darthdavid · Post by **darthdavid** » 2004-04-05 12:35am

Well seeing as i'm running 2000 pro...

Crayz9000 · Post by **Crayz9000** » 2004-04-05 03:03am

Captain tycho wrote:Article?
*begs for a link*

Google it, ya big baby. Here's a hint, it's the second result.

Captain tycho · Post by **Captain tycho** » 2004-04-05 10:00am

Crayz9000 wrote:
Captain tycho wrote:Article?
*begs for a link*
Google it, ya big baby. Here's a hint, it's the second result.

...which is for windows 98.

I found out how to remove IE from XP myself, just a little bit ago..

Vertigo1 · Post by **Vertigo1** » 2004-04-05 05:21pm

Captain tycho wrote:Seriously. I am getting spyware up the galoot, and whenever I type text it randomly decides to capitalize and tab.
Oh, and before you all cry out 'GET MOZILLA!' I have it. Along with Spybot S&D, Adware, 2 firewalls, HijackThis! etc etc etc....and yet, everytime I start up my comp I am slammed with 500 popups and about 2 dozen toolbars. Plus, it is no longer reading floppies OR cd drives, no matter what the fuck I do! And this comp is not even a year old!

Have you scanned for any infections with an anti-virus program? Tried searching Spywareinfo for similar symtoms?

Uraniun235 · Post by **Uraniun235** » 2004-04-06 01:54am

Captain tycho wrote:...which is for windows 98.

If you had bothered to read my post, you'd have seen this:

Uraniun235 wrote:... if you want to run Win9x/ME without IE then you should look into Lite98.

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