Important!!! Programs that install themselves to my computer

Edwin Xie · Mon 20/09/2004 02:47:41

Ok, this is really important, programs keep getting into my computer and install themselves. It happened right after I click the link to the old productions forum in the ezboard in the sticky in the Completed games Annoucements. Please tell me how to resolve the problem. Please! This is is a very bad issue and I do not have enough time to think over how I wrote this.

auhsor · Mon 20/09/2004 02:54:56

Ok, what type of programs are installing? Are you using Internet Explorer?

Oh and the old ezboard forums are quite dead. Not much reason to stay there.

Edwin Xie · Mon 20/09/2004 03:29:31

They're ad-bots! And I am using internet explorer

Evil · Mon 20/09/2004 03:39:02

Ad-Aware baby.

Barbarian · Mon 20/09/2004 05:25:12

As mentioned already in another recent post:

You should try SpywareBlaster (A good free utility that protects your system against most known spyware that tries to invade through browsers):

Check it out at:
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html

Remember to update it after installing to get the most recent protection.

And do you have an anti-virus program running as well as using a firewall?

auhsor · Mon 20/09/2004 10:37:12

I would recommend reading through LGM's little step by step guide: http://lilgryph.sitesled.com/docs/tweaky-clean.rtf If you follow all the directions on that, then that would most definately get your computer running alot better.

Moox · Mon 20/09/2004 20:51:35

Never hit yes on those accept this applet popups

wyr3x · Mon 20/09/2004 21:03:48

ad-ware ... or DeepFreeze ... baby ? (

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Isegrim · Mon 20/09/2004 22:40:00

Some other things that help preventing that crap from re-installing:
1) Disable ActiveX whenever it's not essential
2) Disable JavaVM or at least get rid of the Microsoft one and replace it by the Sun Java VM
3) Set up a firewall
4) (as already suggested) use Mozilla/Firefox

Mr Flibble · Mon 20/09/2004 22:48:28

Quote from: LostTraveler on Mon 20/09/2004 20:51:35
Never hit yes on those accept this applet popups

Never hit 'no' either. Close it from the taskbar.

BlackMan890 · Mon 20/09/2004 22:52:38

i happened to us

in my country, i have to pay 1 dollar for each 28mb i download, then there was this program that installed it itself to our computer, and that program took over 1000 mb!!!!
we had to pay over 35 dolars for it, so call yourself lucky

Mr Jake · Mon 20/09/2004 23:03:58

how the heck did you not notice a 1000MB download.....

Edwin Xie · Tue 21/09/2004 06:49:57

These things have been messing up Internet Explorer lately. I have tried LGM's guide before so I have Spybot S&D to delete those adware but.....Internet Explorer. These things have been adding that toolbar. What I need to know is how to get rid of these things. Once and for all. And stop them from coming back. There were no applet pop-ups. I just clicked on that link and then it started downloading huge amounts of ad-bots without my permission. Strange huh? We better ask AGA since he posted the link.

Barbarian · Tue 21/09/2004 07:49:08

Get and run Smartkiller cleaning tool and CWShredder from:
http://www.siena.edu/antivirus/spyware/cws.asp

From Internet Explorer, click Tools then Internet Options, then Security tab, then highlight Internet icon, then Custom Level button. Go through and check the various settings, and set option to either Disabled, Prompt or Enabled (if it's something you're not sure of, then Prompt is usually a good setting to try).

Ad-Aware is a good free utility that scans for and safely removes most known spyware and sometimes finds things Spybot Search and Destroy misses (and vice-versa):
www.lavasoft.de

Run and enable the Spywareblaster program I mentioned previously as well.

Good luck.

Mr Jake · Tue 21/09/2004 09:47:41

I clicked the link, no downloads for me, you already have some sort of trojan/spyware/ad-ware.

QuoteWe better ask AGA since he posted the link.

I hope you aren't accusing him of anything......

auhsor · Tue 21/09/2004 10:23:10

I clicked on the link and there was a popup that was blocked by firefox and some sort of javascript popup thingy, which you can just close, which incidently advertised some spyware cleaning sites. It must be just be something already on your computer causing these problems.

There was another thread just very recently which might have links to sites that can help: http://www.agsforums.com/yabb/index.php?topic=16756.0

Edwin Xie · Sat 25/09/2004 07:50:59

Ehh, the main problem is that these things messed things up and I used spybot search and destroy and found 60 entries and after I deleted all the entries, still internet explorer is messed up. I can't check my e-mail either. Something is really messing me up.

Mr Jake · Sat 25/09/2004 08:08:28

IE is messed up? thats because it is IE.

Perhaps you should of had/get a virus scanner?

Edwin Xie · Sat 25/09/2004 18:59:02

I tried to use the 3 recovery disks this computer came with and it was like hitting the reset button on my computer which resetted every setting this computer has....but I am afraid that it would come back. Last night I tried to post here but there was a mysterious message that said that LSA Shell has run into a problem and the 30 second time till restart thing which I believe were symtoms of the Sasser virus. Sorry if this is off topic but things have been messing my computer up lately.

Edwin Xie · Mon 27/09/2004 03:38:28

AHH! They got me again!!!!!And I mean the adbots.