I have tried everything

ic2 · 10-08-2005, 19:52

Can anyone help me stop these windows appearing on web sites (screen shot attached). I have tried security settings in IE (i even get them in Mozilla) plus numerous other things.

Does anyone else suffer or is it just me?

regards

IC2

Roy MM · 10-08-2005, 19:55

No screen shot

have you got a pop up stopper installed and enabled?

ic2 · 10-08-2005, 19:56

Sorry user error, file now attached. I am running google toolbar and IE popup blockers but does not seen to help. Any suggestion on what I should be running to stop this thing?

regards

IC2

Millay · 10-08-2005, 20:11

I would run ms anti spyware and some of the other ones, seems a strange one.

ic2 · 10-08-2005, 20:12

Hi,

running MS antispyware, Webroot spysweeper & spybot but nothing found. It is driving me nuts.

IC2

MadGamer · 10-08-2005, 20:15

Have you tried Ad Aware SE Personal?

ic2 · 10-08-2005, 20:25

Hi,

yes had a copy and ran it, just highlighted some tracking cookies?

IC2

10-08-2005, 20:35

Quote:

Originally Posted by ic2

Hi,

yes had a copy and ran it, just highlighted some tracking cookies?

IC2

OK, so it's not a virus or backdoor or spy ware - as far as the detection software can tell.

Check out your browser settings - i.e. ALL of them. Perhaps something has tweaked your browser settings and either set this location as a default, or something like that.

If you're confident with tweaking the registry you might also check out any entries that have 'doubleclick' (they really ought to be placed in front of a wall and riddled with bullets!) in them. You can probably delete most entries containing that string without any worries.

ic2 · 10-08-2005, 20:54

thanks tried that but no joy...........totally miffed. Even disabled scripting in IE security settings.

IC2

MetaWraith · 10-08-2005, 20:57

i'd just add *doubleclick* to your popup and content blockers that'llget rid of it

AndrewJ · 10-08-2005, 21:08

But would give him a annoying Windows popup thing unless he disables that which then means on certain sites which it popup's something you need you cannot check.

Perhaps you should run Hijack this and perhaps one of the intelligent chaps ( zingle where are you?? ) can help..

iron25 · 10-08-2005, 21:15

Although running some kind of spyware software is a good thing, they don't always pick up recent spyware. I would check the run entries in the registry to see what's getting started when windows boots up and I would also look at task manager to see what processes are running. It might be worthwhile posting a screenshot of the running processed from task manager. That way we can see if anything dodgy is running.

marky · 10-08-2005, 21:18

i run ms antispy and yahoo antispy both find things the other doesnt

thats it i'm

myself

ic2 · 10-08-2005, 21:26

Guys,

thanks, I had an old programme called XoftSpy that I installed (searched for best pop up blockers on the web) and its stopped it. Do not understand what this does against all the others but it sure does work.
I have attached my task manager screen shot anyway.

regards

IC2

iron25 · 10-08-2005, 22:24

I had a quick look at the processes and nothing really looks out of place. There's several items that don't need to be running but that's a different story

Perhaps it's worth checking the windows services to see if anything dodgy is running as a service