Feckin computer adverts, I hate them!

[Steve748]

A new annoying thing has just started on my computer a few days ago and I don't know how to stop it

I go to a site or forum and bring up the page and then the screen goes blank and I look on the bar and it has started a new page with the word 'connecting' and if I leave it I get an advert for something like a car or something else fairly normal. Not a porn site or Viagra but usual well known names.

I cannot think of any because I usually manage to hit the X before it is fully loaded up.

I don't know how to get rid of it and all I can think of is that somewhere something has attached itself to something else I have downloaded. The only thing I have downloaded was a BMW 2009/1 sat nav onto a DVD via a torrent from Pirate-bay which stated as a link.

Has anybody else hada similar problem and if so how did you get rid of it?

[randomman]

Basically its from porn. Hey I look at porn all the time, nothing wrong with it. But accept it, you've been doing the same.

Next download AdAware (search in google) from a company called Grisoft and run it.

May be worth tryin to post this in the computer section as a lot of the boffins are allowed out to look at other forums.

Should help.

[69 coupe]

Eurgh, your infected!!!

Try googling malwarebytes then download and run.

[RDE]

You fool. You've activated Skynet. Thanks a bunch.

[davido140]

randomman said:

Basically its from porn. Hey I look at porn all the time, nothing wrong with it. But accept it, you've been doing the same.

well said that man! I wish I had the balls to tell my customers/friends/family that some times!

"aww Dave my pc is running really slow"

an hour of virus/spyware scanning later, 3000 infections cleaned up

[King Herald]

www.ccleaner.com will clean out all the poo in your system for free.


Adaware comes from http://www.lavasoft.com/products/ad_aware.php and does the same job as Ccleaner above, but slower.

Edited by King Herald on Wednesday 4th March 17:18

[hairykrishna]

King Herald said:

www.ccleaner.com will clean out all the poo in your system for free.


Adaware comes from http://www.lavasoft.com/products/ad_aware.php and does the same job as Ccleaner above, but slower.

Edited by King Herald on Wednesday 4th March 17:18

Or spybot;

http://www.safer-networking.org/index2.html

Get some anti virus while you're about it. Avast is good and free;

http://www.avast.com/

[Steve748]

davido140 said:

randomman said:

its from porn. Hey I look at porn all the time, nothing wrong with it. But accept it, you've been doing the same.

well said that man! I wish I had the balls to tell my customers/friends/family that some times!

"aww Dave my pc is running really slow"

an hour of virus/spyware scanning later, 3000 infections cleaned up

Hmmmm, don't think so! unless something has come attached to CD universe or Vidshop email. I stopped watcing porn online after my last computer imploded and stopped working with a lot of component failures, I think it had reached it's 5 year birthday. I got a nice new Sony Vaio and as it's downstairs in the front room and it's porn free!

Thank you for your suggestions, Ill give it a go!

[Steve748]

hairykrishna said:

King Herald said:

www.ccleaner.com will clean out all the poo in your system for free.


Adaware comes from http://www.lavasoft.com/products/ad_aware.php and does the same job as Ccleaner above, but slower.

Edited by King Herald on Wednesday 4th March 17:18

Or spybot;

http://www.safer-networking.org/index2.html

Get some anti virus while you're about it. Avast is good and free;

http://www.avast.com/

I foolishly bought Norton 360 with the new computer and thought it would prevent crap like this. The computer came with something pre-loaded up. I put the Norton on and had some problems. I took the lappy back to PC world and the guy there took the preloaded stuff off and I successfully loaded up the 360. The guy told me I had to remove one before loading up new stuff as you can't have two lots running, so will I have to take the Norton 360 off before downloading the free stuff?

Edited by Steve748 on Wednesday 4th March 17:39

[hairykrishna]

Steve748 said:

I foolishly bought norton 360 with the new computer and thought it would prevent crap like this.

fk norton. Causes more problems than it solves in my experience!

Also, use Firefox (or Opera) not Internet Explorer.

[Steve748]

I tried firefox and downloaded it first but I couldn't download any Adobe and had to go through IE to get it.

[hairykrishna]

Here's the plugin;

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browse/ty...

I use Firefox all day longfor reading pdf's. IE is pretty much as good these days but is still more ad ware prone.

[Taita]

Firefox + Adblock
Decent HOSTS file (top google result)
Avast / AVG as your AV
Weekly / monthly scans with Spybot / MalwareBytes.

3 monthly clean ups with CCleaner, as all it does is really clean up temp files etc.

[Steve748]

[quote=randomman] its from porn. Hey I look at porn all the time, nothing wrong with it. But accept it, you've been doing the same.quote]

I have le a couple ofd these sites load up and they are all something that require me to fill the form in, sign up for a compay and it's all well known some are Asda, BT, BMW, Tesco, Virgin Media ampongst others so don'tthink it's come via a porn site, somehow

[hairykrishna]

Steve748 said:

I have le a couple ofd these sites load up and they are all something that require me to fill the form in, sign up for a compay and it's all well known some are Asda, BT, BMW, Tesco, Virgin Media ampongst others so don'tthink it's come via a porn site, somehow

That's actually quite interesting. Normally pop ups installed without your consent are selling porn/pharmaceuticals. This is because those companies don't really give a st how the advert makes its way to you. Asda et al on the other hand won't pay people to install that kind of advert because it makes them look bad. Are you sure they're actually the websites of the companies in question? My immediate thought was that they're probably fake sites fishing for your credit card details.
Normally the 2 types of site most likely to infect you are dodgy porn or illegal software. It can come from more innocent places although normally you have to agree to install it ('agree' as in 'fail to notice the clause buried in the terms and conditions').

[Steve748]

Could be, I had another for an I-phone, when I get another I'll look at it a bit closer...............

[Steve748]

Just had another this time t's Amazon and there is nothing about it that looks any different from a 'normal' Amazon site

http://www.amazon.co.uk/b?%5Fencoding=UTF8&sit...

[Steve748]

There's a lot more in the address, like....siteredirect......aedagency....linkcode....creative...

Is it possible that these companies have signed up with a web company with the express purpose of advertising....

[hairykrishna]

It's the real amazon, and http://www.aedgency.com/ are a fairly reputable ad agency I think. It could just be someone who does affiliate marketing for them getting carried away. They'll be in trouble if it is.

Spybot will fix it.

[Steve748]

I recently bought a cd from Amazon in the USA and it's possible when I was filling the form out I got to the bottom and there's the usual...can we send you marketing stuff from time to time... and I forgot/ignored to tick the box and then when I went ack you ticked the box to opt out, or it could be from another source......not porn!