sport989 Posted September 1, 2003 Share Posted September 1, 2003 I get one of their 'helpful' pages 'popping up' instead of the "you are not authorized......." notice. Somehow it has intruded itself on my computer. It does not create any obvious problems, but I resent the fact it is there and uninvited. I keep trying to locate a file for it on my computer but so far no luck. Anybody else familiar? Link to post Share on other sites
GreenTillDeath Posted September 1, 2003 Share Posted September 1, 2003 Doxdesk says it's spyware. Have a link on me: http://www.doxdesk.com/parasite/InternetOptimizer.html Link to post Share on other sites
Strychnine Posted September 1, 2003 Share Posted September 1, 2003 Hmmm....I have a feeling of what your talking about. But, there's a sure-fire to see if it's adware or spyware. It's called A.S.S. Ad-aware Spybot SpywareBlaster Garenteed to figure out what's going on. I thought of that little acronym all by myself! Link to post Share on other sites
GreenTillDeath Posted September 1, 2003 Share Posted September 1, 2003 Dude, when I think of ass, I'm not thinking about spyware at all bro, unless she's wearing Lavasoft brand lingerie. Link to post Share on other sites
Strychnine Posted September 1, 2003 Share Posted September 1, 2003 Admit it, Lithium, you and everyone else in these forums uses and loves A.S.S. Link to post Share on other sites
wormfarmer Posted September 1, 2003 Share Posted September 1, 2003 A good bit of A.S.S can help you a lot. Love the stuff. Link to post Share on other sites
GreenTillDeath Posted September 1, 2003 Share Posted September 1, 2003 (edited) I don't use the second S. I only run my AV and firewall all the time. I only have a 400Mhz chip. I run all the good utilities on Windows that I know of, but I run the scans manually when I'm offline. Maybe someday I'll splurge and cough up the loot for a real 2.4+ Pentium or Athlon PC, but I'm getting some broadband and learning Linux first. NO XP FOR LB! Edited September 1, 2003 by LithiumBliss Link to post Share on other sites
Inprofile Posted September 1, 2003 Share Posted September 1, 2003 Hi and......................... :welcome: We had someone with a similar problem: Read This. The only way to remove it fully will be to d/load and run this programme: HJT. Just Copy & Paste the results back here. Link to post Share on other sites
Strychnine Posted September 1, 2003 Share Posted September 1, 2003 I don't use the second S. I only run my AV and firewall all the time. I only have a 400Mhz chip. I run all the good utilities on Windows that I know of, but I run the scans manually when I'm offline. Maybe someday I'll splurge and cough up the loot for a real 2.4+ Pentium or Athlon PC, but I'm getting some broadband and learning Linux first. NO XP FOR LB! Well, Lithium, SpywareBlaster doesn't need to scan for spyware/adware. The only time I run it is to update it. All it does is put little registry entries into your, well, registry that stop the spyware/adware from even coming onto your system. So it doesn't really take up any processing power. Of course, it sometimes lets something slip by and that's why I have Spybot and Ad-aware. So SpywareBlaster is the first form of defense, followed by scans from Spybot and Ad-aware. It's the perfect team! If you don't use one of the members of A.S.S, your A.S.S won't work properly! And that can be BADDDDD news! Link to post Share on other sites
radio Posted September 1, 2003 Share Posted September 1, 2003 there's lots of good advice here, and I'm not going to edit anything.... just don't let the use of that acronym leave this topic Link to post Share on other sites
Strychnine Posted September 1, 2003 Share Posted September 1, 2003 (edited) Ahhh.....I was hoping when I break 1000 posts I could change my Member Title to "A.S.S Creator". Oh well. I'll do as you wish. Edited September 1, 2003 by Strychnine Link to post Share on other sites
sport989 Posted September 4, 2003 Author Share Posted September 4, 2003 Lithium: thank you! The doxware site had a solution that seemed to fix the problem just fine. It was a bit tricky, using DOS prompts etc, and the spyware was (as you might expect) well disguised. Link to post Share on other sites
GreenTillDeath Posted September 4, 2003 Share Posted September 4, 2003 No prob, I'm always glad to help. Just go run the HijackThis program to be sure it's all gone. The link to it is in Inprofile's post a few up in the thread, under the acronym HJT. Click and post up your results in a new thread. Call it My HijackThis Scan or something like that. Someone will read it for you and let you know if you're clean. :beer: Link to post Share on other sites
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