Porn Pop Ups

[fish]

Rights while surfing the less sulubrious areas of the web for certain cracks...( I wasn't being nayghty i promise) I appear to have got a download which randomly fires a lesbian Porn window up when surfing. I can't see how to remove it any thoughts..

I'm running Service pack 2 upto date Norton and the latest spybot and these all come up clean. I can't see anything odd in th processes nothing is running in tasks and I wouldn't know where to atrt looking in the registry, any thoughts folks.

[Jay-Aim]

enjoy the show

[shadytree]

Lisa , if you let me know the website I might be able to spot the crack

sorry I'll get me coat

[fish]

I don't like people being in control of my PC thats all.

[Mrs Fish]

He has spotted plenty of cracks himself

>> Edited by Mrs Fish on Tuesday 2nd November 20:47

[Frik]

Ad-Aware?

[_dobbo_]

Or spy bot

[andygo]

Go to internet explorer - tools - internet options - temporary internet files - delete cookies and delete files.

This should clear your internet history and the cookie that is instigating the pop up.

[docevi1]

Frik and Dobbo have the right idea, you have spyware/malware what ever you want to call it.

Install, run both of those and then goto www.mozilla.org and download firefox - all these troubles don't exist with FF!

[JoolzB]

fish said:

I appear to have got a download which randomly fires a lesbian Porn window up when surfing.

If you find out where it fires up from can you post the details as I wouldn't mind having that installed.

[Godfrey H]

Fish you have mail.

[catretriever]

If that's a solution...could you send it to me also

many thanks

[ErnestM]

If all else fails - restore your registry from a time before the incept point of the pop-ups.

Use an anti-spyware product and after cleaning be sure that you have your firewall on "maximum shields" before revisiting the web equivelant of the land of Suzie Wong...


ErnestM

[Mrs Fish]

Apologies on behalf of Fish, if he hasn't replied to the suggestions its because he has been mad at work the past couple of days

[gemini]

I too get these but know how I got em
see you sat Lisa

[Mrs Fish]

Yeah, I'm looking forward to it.

[TUS 373]

How do we get the lesbian show installed then? Why would anyone want to remove it, its art.

[chim_knee]

I had a similar problem, again from searching for a particular crack (god, what an inappropriate term for this thread!). I had to remove it using a Start-up program monitor type program as spybot et al didn't touch it.

What happened was it changed my home page to a porn page (not lesbian unfortunately as I would have kept it), everytime I reset the homepage and restarted the PC it would go back.

The Start-up monitor showed me everything that was fired when Win2K started and there was a spurious one there - I took a look in the registry and saw that it changed the home page. I then simply removed it from the startup process (using the app) and therefore the registry.

If SpyBot et al doesn't fix it and you can't do what Ernest suggests - let me know and I'll mail you the app (it's free and small) or put it on my webspace for you to download.

>> Edited by chim_knee on Thursday 4th November 17:42

[Mrs Fish]

Cheers, I'll make sure he takes a look at this thread when he gets homw everyone.

[tommofocus]

Get a copy of a pop-up stopper, i use this free one

www.panicware.com/

goto downloads at top of page, look for free version, download just pop-up stopper as they ask if you want sound pack etc.

It works fairly well once you have Spybot installed and a decent Anti-virus program such as Sophos. Make sure you run antivirus scan every few days and make sure you keep spybot up to date.