I seem to have a problem with the same pop-up offering me a US greencard… I have windows defender, which is supposed to take care of spyware, and a good anti-virus program, which i know can’t do anything about spyware.
I use firefox and uninstalled IE but still manage to get IE pop-ups. Firefox is set to block pop-ups. My windows security center thingy is on all the right settings. When I use windows defender to scan my computer it says there are no problems. I’m also getting re-directed to sites that say my computer is infected with zillions of spyware worms and must download their software to fix the problem. But… once you do that, in order to get rid of all the problems they say your computer has, you must first BUY the program.
Any suggestions? I really don’t want to have to re-install windows to fix this…
I’m trying out the following right now, all of which are free:
Avast, AVG Anti-spyware, Ad-aware, and Spybot. You could try each of those in turn until one of them gets it. One usually does if another can’t.
(I have an autodialer trojan, wincji32.dll, that just won’t go away because it is apparently resident in memory even in Safe Mode, and I’m still working on killing it, which is why I’m trying all the above. It no longer pops up but scans are still finding copies of it, so I’m still working on it.)
Oh, and don’t go to any websites I frequent – then you’ll be safe.
[quote=“Dragonbones”]I’m trying out the following right now, all of which are free:
Avast, AVG Anti-spyware, Ad-aware, and Spybot. You could try each of those in turn until one of them gets it. One usually does if another can’t.[/quote]
I’ll rubber stamp everything Dragonbones is saying plus I tried yahoo anti-spy the other day that ferreted out a trojan horse the others couldn’t pick up. It’s free as well. toolbar.yahoo.com/
I seem to have a problem with the same pop-up offering me a US greencard… I have windows defender, which is supposed to take care of spyware, and a good anti-virus program, which i know can’t do anything about spyware.
I use firefox and uninstalled IE but still manage to get IE pop-ups. Firefox is set to block pop-ups. My windows security center thingy is on all the right settings. When I use windows defender to scan my computer it says there are no problems. I’m also getting re-directed to sites that say my computer is infected with zillions of spyware worms and must download their software to fix the problem. But… once you do that, in order to get rid of all the problems they say your computer has, you must first BUY the program.
Any suggestions? I really don’t want to have to re-install windows to fix this…[/quote]
Could you possibly take a screenshot of the pop-up?
I don’t think this is the problem at the moment, but you might want to try going to the go to Start (>Settings) > Control Panel, then double-click on Administrative Tools. Now double-click on Services.
Find Messenger and double-click on it. Click Stop, and also in Startup Type, choose “Disabled”. Then click OK. That Messenger function can be responsible for unwanted pop-ups.
I’m not sure it is spy-ware, sounds like just a popup window to me. Are you sure your pop-up blocker is on ?
In Firefox 2, it’s Tools->Options->Content, and check the exceptions too.
Ask Stu, I’m always right. Sometimes.
[quote=“AAF”]This is the message that came up after the pop-up was blocked.
…[/quote]I think this is unrelated to the pop-up. It just means there’s something encrypted on the page.
I might have misunderstood the message I read earlier. It stays free, but users are just being urged to update to AVG 7.5: theregister.co.uk/2006/11/21/avg_stays_free/
Sorry for the disinformation.
[quote=“bushibanned”]Woo hoo! Spybot has solved and fixed the problem! AVG anti-apyware didn’t detect anything.
Thanks for all the help and suggestions! [/quote]