'Brought To You By The 180 Search Assistant'

[v8thunder]

Off!

Anyone know how I can get rid of this pop-up pain in the @rse? Basically, it's like having one of those annoying people who try to be your friend by drawing your attention to things they think you'll be interested in at the expense of what you're doing, living in your computer. And it's American

Too often I'll be browsing a web page or typing a message on PH or somewhere, and then the whole thing will grind to a halt while the '180 Search Assistant' tells me about fantastic deals on Ford Explorers in dealerships in the Missouri region. I'll realise that half my message never made it to the screen because the 180 deceded to offer me a holiday in England - WTF?

It seems thread-specific as well. When I was on Jap Chat talking about MK1 MR2s it kept offering me California-spec Camrys for $20,000. On PH threads about dating, it offers to find me partners in New York. On the clothes thread it decided to remind me that Neiman Marcus were having an old stock sale. Every time I visit my uni home page, it offers me an online degree from DeVry University in Santa Ana.

It sounds like Spyware but I've got a pretty solid firewall, spyware and popup blocker that's updated daily and it just doesn't notice it.

Anyone else plagued by the 180 Search Assistant? Know how to shut it up once and for all?

[2 Smokin Barrels]

v8thunder said:

Basically, it's like having one of those annoying people who try to be your friend by drawing your attention to things they think you'll be interested in at the expense of what you're doing, living in your computer.

That'll be V8thunder then

[chrishillcoat]

Have you run AdAware? If that doesn't shift it, then you might have to look through the registry...

[slinky]

Download and run Windows Anti Spyware, it's a free download from MS, currently in Beta, but we're using it on some kit in the office to evaluate it and it seems rather effective...

clicky linky

HTH,

slinky

[c c]

I find these two very useful in the never ending spyware war.

hijackthis


spysweeper

[Ferg]

slinky said:

Download and run Windows Anti Spyware, it's a free download from MS, currently in Beta, but we're using it on some kit in the office to evaluate it and it seems rather effective...

Hey Slinky,
That is a nice bit of software. Thanks for the link!!

[slinky]

have a tinker around some of the advanced features, there's all sorts of hidden gems in there...

slinky

[sadako]

Use combination adaware and spybot to kill it, it can regenerate itself if you try to delete it. Be careful what you click on in future and use firefox.

[mindgam3]

i had it on my old comp, adaware completely shifts the lil bugger, never to return

[Plotloss]

www.lavasoftusa.com/support/download/

www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html

Download both of these. Sorted.

[rsvmilly]

Best I've found at getting rid of these seems to be CWShredder;

www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html

[coach]

SPYBOT as well