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"I Hate Pop-ups" pop-up ad
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Dan
02/06/04
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I constantly get one pop-up. It's a small window (approx 4" x 4"), called "I hate Pop-ups" has a stop sign on it and I guess is an ad for something that will stop pop-ups
(although I wouldn't need to stop pop-ups if this damn ad didnt keep popping up!!)
when I get home from work there is sometimes 8-10 of these windows, exactly the same
anyone else have this? how do I get rid of it? Is it something that has 'latched-on' to my computer? I've ran Spybot and it doesnt seem to get rid of it.
any advice??
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ed
02/06/04
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"I Hate Pop-ups" pop-up ad
funny spybot doesnt catch it however I hear about illegitimate clones of spybot and ad-aware that people have downloaded and have installed spyware I wonder if that is the situation. Check your running processes/programs for anything suspicious.
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Dan
02/06/04
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"I Hate Pop-ups" pop-up ad
I did a little research on this and it seems that the pop-up could be related to Coolweb.
I think the CW-shredder might take care of it, I'll give it a try.
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ed
02/06/04
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"I Hate Pop-ups" pop-up ad
good luck with it !
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Mark
02/06/04
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"I Hate Pop-ups" pop-up ad
Guys, I read Dans' post and see something about a "Stop Sign" ! Sh.., hope it isn't Stop-Sign !!! BTW Dan, Stop-Sign (known as eanthology) is a freakin' pest. Do a quick search for "eacceleration" files on your computer, and look in Control Panel (Add/Remove Programs) for any signs of eanthology. Please come back and say you haven't found that piece of sh..!!!
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todor
02/09/04
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"I Hate Pop-ups" pop-up ad
I would give anything to see the author of this one in jail for a long, long, long time!
Please, let me know if you have found how to get rid of "I HATE POPOUPS" pests. (the computer virus or the humans that invented it)
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Mark
02/09/04
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"I Hate Pop-ups" pop-up ad
Todor, you could have a variant of Coolweb (spyware). You need to download a tool called CW-shredder. Here's a link for it :
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html
Scroll down to "Official Downloads" and get CW-shredder. Unzip it, run it, UPDATE IT, then close all other programs and click "Fix". Reboot.
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dan
02/12/04
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"I Hate Pop-ups" pop-up ad
tried the CW-shredder, it said my system was compeltely clean.
still cant seem to get rid of this pest. must be latched on to my computer somewhere, b/c even when I do not have an open internet window the ad still pops up, 10x's over.
any other suggestions? todor have you had any luck?
thank you for all your help so far.
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dan
02/12/04
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"I Hate Pop-ups" pop-up ad
Found this in an archived thread, hope it helps:
To manually remove eanthology programs, please follow the steps below:
1) Open eanthology Manager, and deactivate all of the features:
- Click Start > Programs > eanthology > eanthology Manager.
- Click on the Stop Sign Icon.
- Click on all tabs to deactivate each feature.
- Close eanthology Manager.
2) Press CTRL-ALT-DEL once to bring up Task Manager:
- For Windows 95/98/ME: Look for "defscangui.exe" and press "End
Task".
- For Windows XP/NT/2000: Click on "Processes" tab, search for
"defscangui.exe" and press "End Process".
***Note***
If defscangui.exe is not found, skip to number 3.
3) Click Start, then Settings, and then Control Panel.
(In XP: Click Start > Control Panel.)
4) Double-click Add/Remove Programs.
5) Under the Install/Uninstall(or Add/Remove) tab, click eanthology.
- Click the Add/Remove button(Select the programs you wish to
uninstall for newer versions: ) and click OK to approve the uninstall.
6) Also repeat the above step for eanthology Download Receiver.
7) Reboot your computer.
8) Click Start, Programs, and then right-click on eanthology, and then
choose the "Delete" option. Click "Yes" to confirm deletion.
If you have any problems with the above directions, please send an
email to mailto:support@eacceleration.com for action.
If you got this scumware from downloading other scumware like kazaa or Imesh then what do you expect?
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snowman
02/12/04
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"I Hate Pop-ups" pop-up ad
Dan is it messenger spam:
Try this :
http://grc.com/stm/shootthemessenger.htm
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Todor
02/19/04
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"I Hate Pop-ups" pop-up ad
I found that if I kill the process "rundll32.exe" om my task manager the "I HATE POP-UPS" windows stop popping-up. This is not a good fix because the next time I turn on my computer the "rundll32.exe" is there again along with the pop-ups. At least I can stop them for the current session. Here is a link to another forum that discusses "rundll32.exe"
http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/17245/
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s
02/19/04
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"I Hate Pop-ups" pop-up ad
todor :
run a scan at housecall, it detects popmon.
Popmon has been known to give those "i hate pop-ups"
http://housecall.trendmicro.com/
You could also check for :
iefeatures or MSrdk.xml
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