A whole month wthout PH due to what ???
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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
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
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
ps I did a search before typing this but couldn't find anything similar.
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
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
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
ps I did a search before typing this but couldn't find anything similar.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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