A whole month wthout PH due to what ???
A whole month wthout PH due to what ???
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LMC

Original Poster:

918 posts

244 months

Saturday 24th April 2010
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This is not a question, just a rant really.

About a month ago I came on PH and a survey box popped up. Seemingly relevant to the site I started to complete it. Then it wouldn't load to another page to finish. It just spun so I closed it.

From that moment on I have not been able to access PH frown Every time I tried, I got a non loading page with cnet.surveys.com "trying" to load. Then in general browsing, I was being redirected to other sites (no porn thankfully...)

Noadware found a browserspy in my registry and "deleted" it. Only it didn't, because the problem remained and when I scanned again it would find it again ! And "delete" it, again.

Malwarebytes antimalware found nothing, Zonealarm found nothing. A couple of other things found nothing.

I tried different browsers; Firefox, Google chrome, IE and Opera. All had faults. None would autocomplete a search, all opened a new window when you clicked on a link. All opened a new page with stuff like ask.com.

Bloody infuriating ! One night about 2 weeks ago I paid for and tried to d/load Norton 360 (yes I was that frustrated). My browser would not load the final page to finish the d/load. It seems to do this with other sites ie Microsoft, I think the rogue file was protecting itself...

A tech guy from Norton had control of my laptop remotely, but he couldn't complete the d/load either. I am waiting for my Norton 360 to come through the post (he gave me an extra year subs for my bother smile

Tonight, I ran Noadware again, and this time it did something different other than just finding this browserspy in my registry; it killed all my browser shortcuts and now the spy seems to have gone.

I can't tell you the number of times this craptop has been within a hair's breadth of a horrible demise. My main reason for telling you all this is because I can ! It's so good to get back on smile

ps I did a search before typing this but couldn't find anything similar.

Blue Meanie

73,668 posts

286 months

Saturday 24th April 2010
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It's a new method to keep people away. Those silly enough to partake in pop up surveys get an automatic ban for a month.

LMC

Original Poster:

918 posts

244 months

Saturday 24th April 2010
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I know, I deserve all I get smile

The_Jackal

4,854 posts

228 months

Saturday 24th April 2010
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Please do everything you can to get Noadware off your machine.
Look beyond the fake marketing adverts pretending to be independant reviews and you will see it is practically a piece of malware itself. What fools people is that they did a good job at pushing their fake sites to the top of the Google results when you search for Noadware review.

Look at the Cnet review of it.

Slagathore

6,225 posts

223 months

Saturday 24th April 2010
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I had this a while back. I googled it and found it was something to do with scripts?

There's an add on for firefox called noscripts, or something similar. That sorted it out.

Didn't really understand the technical stuff, but it was something to do with scripts that were running in the browser.

DocJock

8,722 posts

271 months

Saturday 24th April 2010
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>Firefox
>AdBlockerPlus add-on
>Open pistonheads
>'Blockable scripts on page' - check the box for said script

Worked for me.

Fletch79

1,643 posts

228 months

Sunday 25th April 2010
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I'd suggest a scan with Adaware (the free one) and spybot search and destroy (again free)

The both look for slightly different things so it is worth doing both

Spybot can also immunise your pc against some of the stuff

LMC

Original Poster:

918 posts

244 months

Sunday 25th April 2010
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Thanks for the help guys smile

Its still doing funny things with Firefox, I can only get on here with IE. I'll try the above.

AlexC1981

5,857 posts

248 months

Monday 26th April 2010
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Try clearing all the cookies and history from all your browsers too.

dudleybloke

20,553 posts

217 months

Monday 26th April 2010
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use adblock plus and flashblock addons for firefox.
also download and run ccleaner.