help stopping popups / banners etc ?

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Andy100

How do i get rid of the 'related information' banner at the bottom of some
webpages, it seems to be random and not just on certain websites. Also the
little pop up banner for those annoying 'your system seems to be infected,
please use xxxx brand spy remover'.

I have AdAware SE and SpyBot, neither of which seem to destroy whatever it
is that's doing this to my PC. I have ZoneAlarm PRO as anti-virus, but
whatever it is, is bypassing all of these programs !.

Also, sometimes when i open a web page (usually the ALDI website !) i get
the small box DOS prompt 'Installing C:/inst.exe' and it puts this file in
my C:/ folder (which i promptly delete !) and also a 124675.exe icon, which
is of a woman!, appears, which i also delete.

What is going on here, and what can i do to stop it, since the software i
have at the moment doesn't seem to be doing anything to stop this happening
and i don't want to have to pay for other software when i have payed for
ZAPro !.

Thanks
Andrew
 
How do i get rid of the 'related information' banner at the bottom of some
webpages, it seems to be random and not just on certain websites. Also the
little pop up banner for those annoying 'your system seems to be infected,
please use xxxx brand spy remover'.

I have AdAware SE and SpyBot, neither of which seem to destroy whatever it
is that's doing this to my PC. I have ZoneAlarm PRO as anti-virus, but
whatever it is, is bypassing all of these programs !.

Also, sometimes when i open a web page (usually the ALDI website !) i get
the small box DOS prompt 'Installing C:/inst.exe' and it puts this file in
my C:/ folder (which i promptly delete !) and also a 124675.exe icon, which
is of a woman!, appears, which i also delete.

What is going on here, and what can i do to stop it, since the software i
have at the moment doesn't seem to be doing anything to stop this happening
and i don't want to have to pay for other software when i have payed for
ZAPro !.

Thanks
Andrew
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Sounds like Alexa? Can you confirm this? Use the Microsoft Antispyware
BETA 1. Details from my website in the 'A Safe PC!' section.

P.S. Forget the banner and try another internet browser ;-)

Regards,
Ian Kenefick
http://www.IK-CS.com
 
On that special day, Andy100, ([email protected]) said...
I have AdAware SE and SpyBot, neither of which seem to destroy whatever it
is that's doing this to my PC.
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Turn off ActiveX and Jscript in your Internet Explorer, and if that
works, use a different browser, like Opera or from the Moziall family
(Firefox)

And I've never got problems with the www.aldi-sued.de like those you
described. What do you mean with ALDI? A german shopping mart chain?


Gabriele Neukam

(e-mail address removed)
 
On that special day, Ian Kenefick, ([email protected]) said...
We got ALDI in Ireland now too! It's great - and cheap...
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The ALDI maintainers are special. If anyone delivers bad products to
them and they got noticed by the customers, the stuff vanishes
immediately from the shelves. They keep the quality quite well.
anyways...
back to viruses :-)
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sure


Gabriele Neukam

(e-mail address removed)
 
for popup stoppers so far the best i tried and still have is from webroot :
popup washer

another good spyware killer: spysweeper and another similar program but more
complex but as good
: pestpatrol

the programs you mentioned, it might work good for you but i would not
recommend zonealarm. it may be good in a temporary basis, but highly
suggest you get another one. i dont know if you use it for a firewall wich
is oftenly used for that as a shareware for those who cant have the lynksys
and its similar firewall, and its mostly recommended to use the machine then
a shareware as a firewall because the shareware is to vulnerable from
attacks and portscanners and much easyer to breack through.
 
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