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How do I stop this bastard?
For a while now I've been getting pop-ups from a site called www.ad-w-a-r-e.com and if I leave it it eventually ends up linking to more pop-ups and other sites that end up leaving dialers and more spyware on my computer. Yesterday I left my computer for about 30 seconds and when I came back I had a new dialer on my computer just because of that pop up.
I have tried ad-aware, SpyBot, HijackThis, Kill Box, CWShredder and The Cleaner and not one of them is finding what is causing it. I also tried a pop-up stopper yesterday which did nothing (despite download.com giving it a 5/5 rating )So anyone got any ideas on how to get right of it? |
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Oh and I also have AVG Anti-Virus which can't find it either.
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IRREPLACEABLE
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When I used Windows 2000 I got this pop up that was similar, it infested my PC with loads of shit, and it links you to a site to stop it, where you have to pay $29.95 to download a program. So they basically try and charge you that money to stop them putting stuff onto your PC.
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The Satanic Mechanic
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I suggest a combination of Sygate personal firewall, McAfee Antivirus, Adaware SE, Spybot, Mozilla Firefox and a good pop up stopper.
Oh, and if all is lost, reformat.
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Adminstigator
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clear your cookies.
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Crows Before Hoes
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http://housecall.trendmicro.com/
then http://www.lavasoft.de/ (get Ad-aware SE, it detects things that the older ad-awares didn't) |
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