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Annoying Spyware Wont go away!

Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
Okay this is getting beyound a joke.

I keep getting these's pop ups every so often and i've installed Ad-ware run that it picked up 3 things i run spybot it picked up afew stuff and i've got webroot spysweeper and that got rid of the rest.

The thing is it KEEPS POPING UP!!

And i dont know what to do!

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  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    you mean .... vistas built in spyware/adware cleaner doesn't work?

    *shock shock horror*
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    You can take your shock horror back because im not using Vista yet.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Just format c:

    But probably if you've got system restore turned on, some spyware has been saved into your system restore bits and the virus scan is repeatedly detecting it.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    ShyBoy wrote: »
    Just format c:

    Not yet:)

    Will do that and run all the scans Cheers
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    CoolMe wrote: »
    You can take your shock horror back because im not using Vista yet.

    I was going by your vista thread, and the sig under your post :p

    My humble apologies, of course
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Accepted, well in afew days i'll be running Home Prem:hyper:
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    CoolMe wrote: »
    Okay this is getting beyound a joke.

    ...

    The thing is it KEEPS POPING UP!!

    And i dont know what to do!

    Install a decent OS. I've not had an unwanted popup in years... :)
  • smitherzsmitherz Posts: 968 Part of The Mix Family
    CoolMe wrote: »
    Okay this is getting beyound a joke.

    I keep getting these's pop ups every so often and i've installed Ad-ware run that it picked up 3 things i run spybot it picked up afew stuff and i've got webroot spysweeper and that got rid of the rest.

    The thing is it KEEPS POPING UP!!

    And i dont know what to do!

    It would be good to know what popups are actually coming up on your machine?
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Install a decent OS. I've not had an unwanted popup in years... :)

    I've never had a problem with pop-ups on XP until now.:flirt:

    The pop-ups are gone and just random ones
  • smitherzsmitherz Posts: 968 Part of The Mix Family
    Is SP2 installed? inc all updates? this can effect the amount of popups you have !
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I'm a very uptodate man my friend
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    CoolMe wrote: »
    I'm a very uptodate man my friend

    Lol, I can imagine you using that as a chat up line :p
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    ShyBoy wrote: »
    Lol, I can imagine you using that as a chat up line :p

    :no:
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    ShyBoy wrote: »
    Lol, I can imagine you using that as a chat up line :p

    When he does pull, and decided to settle down and have kids, I can see the firstborn being called 'Vista'. The one from the broken condom will be called 'bad eXPerience', and the one resulting from IVF will be called '2000' :).
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    oh my lord.
  • smitherzsmitherz Posts: 968 Part of The Mix Family
    :lol: nearly pissed myself
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