Comments for Adware Detection

Comment on Possible adware? IE keeps showing me unfamiliar sites as bookmarks? by Steve B

Steve B — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 23:38:44 +0000

This sort of crap is often included with some ‘shareware’** software you installed … the authors of such software get paid to ‘advertise’ … so it’s not (really) a virus and your virus scanner won’t flag it …

Get ‘Hijack This’ (the free one) and examine all the MSIE ‘add-ons’ .. (typically the add-on will show up as HKCU or ‘Toolbar’ ) and delete the offender ….

Next time, avoid installing anything that is ‘ad supported’ .. (or better, get Firefox, since most of the ‘free stuff’ still only targets MSIE)

**Adobe & Dell etc. are also guiltily of this sort of crap behavior, BUT they only advertises other Adobe / Dell etc. stuff .. so you know who to kill

Comment on Possible adware? IE keeps showing me unfamiliar sites as bookmarks? by Alan

Alan — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 09:10:18 +0000

With both Norton Internet Security and Norton 360, free e-mail and chat support is available as well as free phone support.

They also have auto fix technology which will diagnose and fix common problems.
Use this dedicated support – you’ve paid for it.

Also, worth noting times these things have happened by looking at Temporary Internet Files :
Internet Explorer, Internet Options, Browsing History, Settings, View Files.
Look down Internet Address and Last Accessed to see URL of site, with time/date.

Need to know if others may have access to computer, what type of connection (wireless?).

Worth using Norton Support first.

All the best.

Comment on Possible adware? IE keeps showing me unfamiliar sites as bookmarks? by Cardinals = Dominance

Cardinals = Dominance — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:28:19 +0000

i wud go to malwarebytes.org download malwarebytes anti malware for free and run the scan and remove to take that crap off

Comment on Possible adware? IE keeps showing me unfamiliar sites as bookmarks? by kkilpa

kkilpa — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 07:30:36 +0000

Install Panda Cloud antivirus and install Malwarebytes antimalware. Scan with both.

Comment on Unresolved adware or spyware problem? by Wan K

Wan K — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 19:14:45 +0000

Find the location with spybot and remove it manually make sure system restore is turned off when deleting you can turn it back on when finished.

Comment on Unresolved adware or spyware problem? by Cluster

Cluster — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 08:40:19 +0000

Also use avg, with these they all do different tasks mate and avg, might get rid of it for you.

Comment on Unresolved adware or spyware problem? by Don W

Don W — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 12:59:26 +0000

Here you go:

Comment on Adware/Spyware Problem? by dhruv g

dhruv g — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 22:34:20 +0000

download malware bytes and update it and then run a quick scan.

Comment on Adware/Spyware Problem? by David

David — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 08:06:27 +0000

yahoo anti spy is not enough to eliminate the infection
download malwarebytes and smitfraudfix
scan in safe mode
make sure that you’re command prompt is enable
download ultimate washer to enable command prompt

Comment on Adware/Spyware Problem? by Mr.C

Mr.C — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 14:09:10 +0000

Get Mc Afee.
System Mechanic
You can take care of adware and spyware and many other viruses
with this these CDs.