OFFEROPTIMIZER

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JEFF BERNARD

My IE gets shut down randomly (and often)
by "xadso.offeroptimizer". Whatever this is, it is
impervious to my Norton antivirus, Earthlink spyware
blocker and cookie deleter. I have seen some web pages
discussing being "hijacked" and offer page after page of
mechanical data which I presume can be used by someone
more computer literate than I am to beat it. Any help?
Jeff
 
This may be caused by spyware/malware that's gotten installed on
your system. Use Ad-Aware and/or Spybot Search & Destroy to remove it.

Ad-Aware: http://www.lavasoftusa.com/ (but I see you've already tried this
one)
Spybot: http://security.kolla.de/
Good sites on how to install and use Spybot -
http://www.net-integration.net/reviews/spybot1.html
http://tomcoyote.com/SPYBOT/index1.php

More information here:
http://www.spywareinfo.com/
http://www.mvps.org/inetexplorer/Darnit.htm
http://www.doxdesk.com/parasite/ - runs a little script when loading page to
check for common parasites

If no joy, in IE go to Tools...Internet Options...Advanced tab, Browsing
section, uncheck "Enable third-party browser extensions", click Apply, click
Okay, reboot. If that solves your problem, then more troubleshooting is
needed to find out exactly which program, or Browser Helper Object (BHO) is
causing this problem. You don't want to leave it at that, as some BHOs are
useful or necessary - like Adobe Acrobat for reading .pdf files or an
essential component of Norton AV. Get BHODemon -
http://www.definitivesolutions.com/bhodemon.htm - read all about BHOs.
Disable all items, and then gradually replace one or two at a time to narrow
down the culprit.

If all the above fails, then the problem could be something new that the
spyware cleaners above don't have in their databases yet. In that case....
HijackThis direct download:
http://209.133.47.200/~merijn/files/HijackThis.exe
Tutorial on how to use HijackThis:
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/htlogtutorial.html
Then post it's output log to the forum here for analysis and feedback by the
parasite experts:
http://www.spywareinfo.com/forums/
Or the other HijackThis Logs forums listed here:
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/forums.html

Or try this program to get some of the most nasty malware:
CWShredder direct download:
http://aumha.org/downloads/cwshredder.zip

An alternate resource for all of this and more:
http://www.aumha.org/secure.htm
 
JEFF BERNARD said:
My IE gets shut down randomly (and often)
by "xadso.offeroptimizer". Whatever this is, it is
impervious to my Norton antivirus, Earthlink spyware
blocker and cookie deleter. I have seen some web pages
discussing being "hijacked" and offer page after page of
mechanical data which I presume can be used by someone
more computer literate than I am to beat it. Any help?
Jeff






go to internet option
privacy
web sites
add
offeroptimizer.com >press block
block the ad cookies and the pop up
will be gone
 
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