Internet Explorer Queery: Virus Content

Tom Enright · Joined: 06 Aug 2007 Posts: 36

Okay, I give-up...

About every 5 clicks I make while surfing I get a pop-up. Not your
typical Netflix type pop-up but a whole new Explorer window which
tries to take me to another web site. Typically, but not limited to,
University of Phoenix and numerous sites which promise to wipe all
that non-existent pr0n off my computer.

McAfee can't fix it, reseting Explorer can't fix it, Microsoft can't
fix it and my generally piss-poor MS sys admin. capablities can't fix
it, disabling add-ons won't fix it....

Any ideas?

-Tom Enright

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John Rogers · Joined: 06 Aug 2007 Posts: 152

Tom Enright . we live in a world that has
walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Whose
gonna do it? You? You, Tom Enright ?

>Okay, I give-up...
>
>About every 5 clicks I make while surfing I get a pop-up. Not your
>typical Netflix type pop-up but a whole new Explorer window which
>tries to take me to another web site. Typically, but not limited to,
>University of Phoenix and numerous sites which promise to wipe all
>that non-existent pr0n off my computer.
>
>McAfee can't fix it, reseting Explorer can't fix it, Microsoft can't
>fix it and my generally piss-poor MS sys admin. capablities can't fix
>it, disabling add-ons won't fix it....
>
>Any ideas?

Do you use Spybot and/or Ad-Aware?

Also, get thee to Mozilla.

John Rogers
AU Class of 1985
The Al Del Greco of Atlanta

"You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very
well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive,
we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build
your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a
gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will
follow ours." (General Sir Charles Napier)

dam · Joined: 06 Aug 2007 Posts: 7

On Feb 21, 11:55 pm, Tom Enright wrote:
> Okay, I give-up...
>
> About every 5 clicks I make while surfing I get a pop-up. Not your
> typical Netflix type pop-up but a whole new Explorer window which
> tries to take me to another web site. Typically, but not limited to,
> University of Phoenix and numerous sites which promise to wipe all
> that non-existent pr0n off my computer.
>
> McAfee can't fix it, reseting Explorer can't fix it, Microsoft can't
> fix it and my generally piss-poor MS sys admin. capablities can't fix
> it, disabling add-ons won't fix it....
>
> Any ideas?
>
> -Tom Enright

Firefox is your friend (with the adblock plus add-in). I can't
remember the last time I saw a pop up window. Oh yea, it was when I
was using IE.

dam

Tom Enright · Joined: 06 Aug 2007 Posts: 36

On Feb 22, 12:46 am, John Rogers wrote:
> Tom Enright . we live in a world that has
> walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Whose
> gonna do it? You? You, Tom Enright ?
>
> >Okay, I give-up...
>
> >About every 5 clicks I make while surfing I get a pop-up. Not your
> >typical Netflix type pop-up but a whole new Explorer window which
> >tries to take me to another web site. Typically, but not limited to,
> >University of Phoenix and numerous sites which promise to wipe all
> >that non-existent pr0n off my computer.
>
> >McAfee can't fix it, reseting Explorer can't fix it, Microsoft can't
> >fix it and my generally piss-poor MS sys admin. capablities can't fix
> >it, disabling add-ons won't fix it....
> >
> >Any ideas?

> Do you use Spybot and/or Ad-Aware?
>
> Also, get thee to Mozilla.

This post was made via Mozilla.

I use Mozilla on my UNIX box at work, problem is that many web pages
do not work properly. I assume I won't have that trouble in Windows
XP?

-Tom Enright

> John Rogers
> AU Class of 1985
> The Al Del Greco of Atlanta
>
> "You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very
> well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive,
> we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build
> your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a
> gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will
> follow ours." (General Sir Charles Napier)

Bill Hileman · Joined: 16 Dec 2007 Posts: 20

"Tom Enright" wrote in message @q78g2000hsh.googlegroups.com...
> Okay, I give-up...
>
> About every 5 clicks I make while surfing I get a pop-up. Not your
> typical Netflix type pop-up but a whole new Explorer window which
> tries to take me to another web site. Typically, but not limited to,
> University of Phoenix and numerous sites which promise to wipe all
> that non-existent pr0n off my computer.
>
> McAfee can't fix it, reseting Explorer can't fix it, Microsoft can't
> fix it and my generally piss-poor MS sys admin. capablities can't fix
> it, disabling add-ons won't fix it....
>
> Any ideas?

Yes, it sounds like you got exactly the same problem I had about a year ago.
Download and install Windows Live OneCare. It was the only thing that
straightened out my computer. Note that if you have other
spyware/anti-virus you'll need to uninstall them. WLOC combines both and
also a firewall. None of my systems have been infected since installing
that software.

James Gibson · Joined: 06 Aug 2007 Posts: 20

On Feb 22, 12:46 am, John Rogers wrote:
> Tom Enright . we live in a world that has
> walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Whose
> gonna do it? You? You, Tom Enright ?
>
> >Okay, I give-up...
>
> >About every 5 clicks I make while surfing I get a pop-up. Not your
> >typical Netflix type pop-up but a whole new Explorer window which
> >tries to take me to another web site. Typically, but not limited to,
> >University of Phoenix and numerous sites which promise to wipe all
> >that non-existent pr0n off my computer.
>
> >McAfee can't fix it, reseting Explorer can't fix it, Microsoft can't
> >fix it and my generally piss-poor MS sys admin. capablities can't fix
> >it, disabling add-ons won't fix it....
>
> >Any ideas?
>
> Do you use Spybot and/or Ad-Aware?

And being the key. I find both of those find spyware that the other
one misses.

>
> Also, get thee to Mozilla.

Yes, I agree. Now only if I could get the people at work to agree
with me. Mozilla is our list of banned pages, so we are forced to use
only approved IE.

Ike · Joined: 24 Jan 2008 Posts: 6

Bill Hileman wrote:

> "Tom Enright" wrote in message
> @q78g2000hsh.googlegroups.com...
>
>>Okay, I give-up...
>>
>>About every 5 clicks I make while surfing I get a pop-up. Not your
>>typical Netflix type pop-up but a whole new Explorer window which
>>tries to take me to another web site. Typically, but not limited to,
>>University of Phoenix and numerous sites which promise to wipe all
>>that non-existent pr0n off my computer.
>>
>>McAfee can't fix it, reseting Explorer can't fix it, Microsoft can't
>>fix it and my generally piss-poor MS sys admin. capablities can't fix
>>it, disabling add-ons won't fix it....
>>
>>Any ideas?
>
>
> Yes, it sounds like you got exactly the same problem I had about a year ago.
> Download and install Windows Live OneCare. It was the only thing that
> straightened out my computer. Note that if you have other
> spyware/anti-virus you'll need to uninstall them. WLOC combines both and
> also a firewall. None of my systems have been infected since installing
> that software.
>
>

Yes.

From a very recent occurance, complete with a homepage hijacker that
NOTHING else would find or cure, IAWTP!

Ike · Joined: 24 Jan 2008 Posts: 6

dam wrote:

> On Feb 21, 11:55 pm, Tom Enright wrote:
>
>>Okay, I give-up...
>>
>>About every 5 clicks I make while surfing I get a pop-up. Not your
>>typical Netflix type pop-up but a whole new Explorer window which
>>tries to take me to another web site. Typically, but not limited to,
>>University of Phoenix and numerous sites which promise to wipe all
>>that non-existent pr0n off my computer.
>>
>>McAfee can't fix it, reseting Explorer can't fix it, Microsoft can't
>>fix it and my generally piss-poor MS sys admin. capablities can't fix
>>it, disabling add-ons won't fix it....
>>
>>Any ideas?
>>
>>-Tom Enright
>
>
> Firefox is your friend (with the adblock plus add-in). I can't
> remember the last time I saw a pop up window. Oh yea, it was when I
> was using IE.

Hmm. Your day may be coming sooner than you think.

A bunch of Firefox users jest ran across problems with the Scout network.

Ike · Joined: 24 Jan 2008 Posts: 6

Goro wrote:

> On Feb 21, 9:55 pm, Tom Enright wrote:
>
>>Okay, I give-up...
>>
>>About every 5 clicks I make while surfing I get a pop-up. Not your
>>typical Netflix type pop-up but a whole new Explorer window which
>>tries to take me to another web site. Typically, but not limited to,
>>University of Phoenix and numerous sites which promise to wipe all
>>that non-existent pr0n off my computer.
>>
>>McAfee can't fix it, reseting Explorer can't fix it, Microsoft can't
>>fix it and my generally piss-poor MS sys admin. capablities can't fix
>>it, disabling add-ons won't fix it....
>>
>>Any ideas?
>>
>>-Tom Enright
>
>
> Yes, i had something similar infect me recently. In addition, the
> spyware downloaded and installed an "antivirus" software scanner... I
> ran spybot and it found about 30 pieces of malware and cleaned it up,
> but wasn't 100% confident that it was all removed.
>
> Then a really interesting thing, apparently there was something that
> both spybot and AVG missed b/c it launch rundll32 which would try to
> set a registry setting for it to run. I set spybot to blacklist it,
> but it would just try again.

Seems to be the flavor of the month.

James Gibson · Joined: 06 Aug 2007 Posts: 20

On Feb 22, 7:58 am, Tom Enright wrote:
> On Feb 22, 12:46 am, John Rogers wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > Tom Enright . we live in a world that has
> > walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Whose
> > gonna do it? You? You, Tom Enright ?
>
> > >Okay, I give-up...
>
> > >About every 5 clicks I make while surfing I get a pop-up. Not your
> > >typical Netflix type pop-up but a whole new Explorer window which
> > >tries to take me to another web site. Typically, but not limited to,
> > >University of Phoenix and numerous sites which promise to wipe all
> > >that non-existent pr0n off my computer.
>
> > >McAfee can't fix it, reseting Explorer can't fix it, Microsoft can't
> > >fix it and my generally piss-poor MS sys admin. capablities can't fix
> > >it, disabling add-ons won't fix it....
>
> > >Any ideas?
> > Do you use Spybot and/or Ad-Aware?
>
> > Also, get thee to Mozilla.
>
> This post was made via Mozilla.
>
> I use Mozilla on my UNIX box at work, problem is that many web pages
> do not work properly. I assume I won't have that trouble in Windows
> XP?

Yes, for the most part. When I had a dual boot linux/PC at my last
job, Mozilla Firefox worked great in XP and was flaky in Linux. Make
sure you download Mozilla Firefox and not just the Mozilla browser.
That one doesn't work well. Still, I've found a few pages that
Firefox can't handle, such as the ADP portal site where I need to
access benefits documents from my employer.

Edward M. Kennedy · Joined: 03 Dec 2007 Posts: 75

"Tom Enright" wrote

> Okay, I give-up...
>
> About every 5 clicks I make while surfing I get a pop-up. Not your
> typical Netflix type pop-up but a whole new Explorer window which
> tries to take me to another web site. Typically, but not limited to,
> University of Phoenix and numerous sites which promise to wipe all
> that non-existent pr0n off my computer.
>
> McAfee can't fix it, reseting Explorer can't fix it, Microsoft can't
> fix it and my generally piss-poor MS sys admin. capablities can't fix
> it, disabling add-ons won't fix it....
>
> Any ideas?

Once you clean it up, try using two different computers/logins/browsers.
It really doesn't matter whether you have two different computers, profiles,
or browsers, so long as you keep 'em straight.

I have one at work that has java script, pop-ups, cookies, just about
everything turned off. I could click on the nastiest link in the world,
and nothing would happen. I use this browser for personal browsing.
(At home I have an old copy of Netscape 3.04 Gold set up that way. All
I want over a phone line is text and pictures.)

For work related stuff, and a few sites I know rock solid safe, I use
another browser that has everything turned on.

You can also do a combination of the two -- use the safe browser to do
most of your navigation, but if you get to a "safe" site with whistles
and bells you want to activate, cut 'n paste the Earl into the browser
that can run those things.

--Tedward

Chagney Hunt · Joined: 06 Aug 2007 Posts: 6

On Feb 22, 10:27 am, "Edward M. Kennedy" wrote:
> "Tom Enright" wrote
>
> > Okay, I give-up...
>
> > About every 5 clicks I make while surfing I get a pop-up. Not your
> > typical Netflix type pop-up but a whole new Explorer window which
> > tries to take me to another web site. Typically, but not limited to,
> > University of Phoenix and numerous sites which promise to wipe all
> > that non-existent pr0n off my computer.
>
> > McAfee can't fix it, reseting Explorer can't fix it, Microsoft can't
> > fix it and my generally piss-poor MS sys admin. capablities can't fix
> > it, disabling add-ons won't fix it....
>
> > Any ideas?
>
> Once you clean it up, try using two different computers/logins/browsers.
> It really doesn't matter whether you have two different computers, profiles,
> or browsers, so long as you keep 'em straight.
>
> I have one at work that has java script, pop-ups, cookies, just about
> everything turned off. I could click on the nastiest link in the world,
> and nothing would happen. I use this browser for personal browsing.
> (At home I have an old copy of Netscape 3.04 Gold set up that way. All
> I want over a phone line is text and pictures.)
>
> For work related stuff, and a few sites I know rock solid safe, I use
> another browser that has everything turned on.
>
> You can also do a combination of the two -- use the safe browser to do
> most of your navigation, but if you get to a "safe" site with whistles
> and bells you want to activate, cut 'n paste the Earl into the browser
> that can run those things.

Dudes and dudettes,

Do learn to use the extensions developed for Firefox. "NoScript" in
particular is useful. You can selectively allow which script to be
able to run on your browser. Between "NoScript", "AdBlocker", and some
gray matter between the ears, I've never been infiltrated by adwares
or trojans transmitted via web even though my only other line of
defense is Symantec Antivirus.

Tony Lima · Joined: 06 Aug 2007 Posts: 3

On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 20:55:06 -0800 (PST), Tom Enright
wrote:

>Okay, I give-up...
>
>About every 5 clicks I make while surfing I get a pop-up. Not your
>typical Netflix type pop-up but a whole new Explorer window which
>tries to take me to another web site. Typically, but not limited to,
>University of Phoenix and numerous sites which promise to wipe all
>that non-existent pr0n off my computer.
>
>McAfee can't fix it, reseting Explorer can't fix it, Microsoft can't
>fix it and my generally piss-poor MS sys admin. capablities can't fix
>it, disabling add-ons won't fix it....
>
>Any ideas?
>
>-Tom Enright

SuperAntiSpyware. Plus AdAware, AVG anti-spyware and
anything else you can find. Install 'em, run frequently.
Even our SonicWALL router doesn't keep it all out. - Tony

Jim Gysin · Joined: 06 Aug 2007 Posts: 98

dam sent the following on 2/22/2008 6:20 AM:
> On Feb 21, 11:55 pm, Tom Enright wrote:
>> Okay, I give-up...
>>
>> About every 5 clicks I make while surfing I get a pop-up. Not your
>> typical Netflix type pop-up but a whole new Explorer window which
>> tries to take me to another web site. Typically, but not limited to,
>> University of Phoenix and numerous sites which promise to wipe all
>> that non-existent pr0n off my computer.
>>
>> McAfee can't fix it, reseting Explorer can't fix it, Microsoft can't
>> fix it and my generally piss-poor MS sys admin. capablities can't fix
>> it, disabling add-ons won't fix it....
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> -Tom Enright
>
> Firefox is your friend (with the adblock plus add-in). I can't
> remember the last time I saw a pop up window. Oh yea, it was when I
> was using IE.

Don't forget NoScript.

--
Jim Gysin
Waukesha, WI

jimbrowndoc · Joined: 06 Aug 2007 Posts: 42

On Feb 22, 7:38 am, "Bill Hileman" wrote:
> "Tom Enright" wrote in message
>
> @q78g2000hsh.googlegroups.com...
>
> > Okay, I give-up...
>
> > About every 5 clicks I make while surfing I get a pop-up. Not your
> > typical Netflix type pop-up but a whole new Explorer window which
> > tries to take me to another web site. Typically, but not limited to,
> > University of Phoenix and numerous sites which promise to wipe all
> > that non-existent pr0n off my computer.
>
> > McAfee can't fix it, reseting Explorer can't fix it, Microsoft can't
> > fix it and my generally piss-poor MS sys admin. capablities can't fix
> > it, disabling add-ons won't fix it....
>
> > Any ideas?
>
> Yes, it sounds like you got exactly the same problem I had about a year ago.
> Download and install Windows Live OneCare. It was the only thing that
> straightened out my computer. Note that if you have other
> spyware/anti-virus you'll need to uninstall them. WLOC combines both and
> also a firewall. None of my systems have been infected since installing
> that software.

I had it the same time Bill did. Our computer was under warranty yet,
so the wifey called Dell, the lady there took over our computer and
cleaned lots of stuff out. Thats about all I can recall.

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