spyware & toolbars in internet explorer

Fred Woogle · Post by **Fred Woogle** » November 21st, 2005, 20:02

Hey,

I havn't opened internet explorer since I download friefox, day after I got my pc, but I opened it by acident earlier, to a fair few pop-ups and a toolbar, which my spy-ware programs don't pick up (Spybot S&D, ad-aware, microsoft anti-spyware) can anyone reccomened any way to get rid of this, or a program?

Thanks
Ty

Post by **TezzRexx** » November 21st, 2005, 20:07

Format hard drive

or

Step 1: Fetch hammer
Step 2: smash smash smash
Step 3: Rinse
Step 4: Repeat
Step 5: ...
Step 6: PROFIT.

Fred Woogle · Post by **Fred Woogle** » November 21st, 2005, 20:15

TezzRexx wrote:Format hard drive

Crazy mofo, where do I put everything I found on the floor?

Post by **TezzRexx** » November 21st, 2005, 20:16

Ty aka Sir Die Aloty wrote:
TezzRexx wrote:Format hard drive
Crazy mofo, where do I put everything I found on the floor?

BACK ON THE FLOOR!!

or

Write to DVD(s)

Fred Woogle · Post by **Fred Woogle** » November 21st, 2005, 20:18

TezzRexx wrote:
Ty aka Sir Die Aloty wrote:
TezzRexx wrote:Format hard drive
Crazy mofo, where do I put everything I found on the floor?
Write to DVD(s)

Where are they cheap?

Post by **ProfHawking** » November 21st, 2005, 20:23

1st rule of computing - keep your system drive/partition seperate to your data.
And - if you have the space, keep a ghost image of a good install on the storage.

If its proper nasty spyware, you might never get your machine back to normal

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » November 21st, 2005, 20:26

I've just been playing with a app called spyware doctor and it seems to detect things that adaware and spybot S&D missed, but you have to pay if you want it to actually fix things rather than just tell you about them.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » November 21st, 2005, 20:26

Ty aka Sir Die Aloty wrote:
Where are they cheap?

http://www.ukdvdr.co.uk/

also, i second what profhawking says, remember you can also set where your my documents folder lives (so it's not on your OS drive/partition)

Fred Woogle · Post by **Fred Woogle** » November 21st, 2005, 20:31

can someone teach me how to do that please?

thankls guys

Fred Woogle · Post by **Fred Woogle** » November 21st, 2005, 20:34

ProfHawking wrote:If its proper nasty spyware, you might never get your machine back to normal

its the only stuff I have noticed on there, and its only in IE, Spybot S&D detected stuff when I had an IE window open. So hopefully that will solve it, I can no longer see the bar.

Thanks
Ty

Woo Elephant Yeah · Post by **Woo Elephant Yeah** » November 22nd, 2005, 9:42

If you want to remove toolbar's from I.E., then the only free product out there which is good at doing this, is Microsoft Antispyware Beta.

If you don't believe me, download it from the MS site, and give it a go.

Because it knows exactly what it "should" have, it's extremely good at removing toolbar related spyware from your I.E.

Let me know how you get on

EDIT : linky

Fred Woogle · Post by **Fred Woogle** » November 22nd, 2005, 15:13

already run it.

I managed to clean it out, but steam, seems to re-activate it, and give me pop-ups it self. arghhhhh

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » November 22nd, 2005, 15:36

Ty aka Sir Die Aloty wrote:already run it.

I managed to clean it out, but steam, seems to re-activate it, and give me pop-ups it self. arghhhhh

Steam uses IE as it's html rendering engine, so any IE issues will happen in steam too.

Fred Woogle · Post by **Fred Woogle** » November 22nd, 2005, 16:48

Dr. kitteny berk wrote:
Ty aka Sir Die Aloty wrote:already run it.

I managed to clean it out, but steam, seems to re-activate it, and give me pop-ups it self. arghhhhh
Steam uses IE as it's html rendering engine, so any IE issues will happen in steam too.

okies

- thanks

I don't want to format

Post by **deject** » November 22nd, 2005, 16:56

HIJACK THIS FOR THE WIN!

Fred Woogle · Post by **Fred Woogle** » November 22nd, 2005, 17:05

Spyware Blaster FTW

It has blocked it or something, so no pop-ups or toolbar in IE :D

Now I need to restart in safe mode and delete the files

Fred Woogle · Post by **Fred Woogle** » November 28th, 2005, 16:57

It didn't work

so I had to format, horible horrible, never again