Pornographic Popup

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As you see from the subject line I am having an embarassing problem. I seen
to have something attached to my IE browser. I have taken several steps to
remove it such as: Spybot-Seach and Destroy/Turned of Messenger/Stinger/and
ran my McAfee program. It is not going away. I know it is attached to the
browser because it only shows up when I am surfing. The url of the pops up
is the (the-best-promos.com). Does anyone have any idea what I can do here?
Thanks for any help.
 
Donny, Thank you for answering my posting. I downloaded cwschredder and
toolbar cop. Neither program eliminated my problem. I restarted to see if
that would help. No go. I still have that stupid popup. Thanks again. I
really want to get rid of this stupid popup. Someone said they thought it
was a surf monkey. Does that make any sence.
 
Lynn said:
As you see from the subject line I am having an embarassing problem.
I seen to have something attached to my IE browser. I have taken
several steps to remove it such as: Spybot-Seach and Destroy/Turned
of Messenger/Stinger/and ran my McAfee program. It is not going away.
I know it is attached to the browser because it only shows up when I
am surfing. The url of the pops up is the (the-best-promos.com). Does
anyone have any idea what I can do here? Thanks for any help.
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You have a BHO attached to IE, the program below will show you all BHO's and
give you the option to disable them.
BHO Demon - http://www.majorgeeks.com/download3550.html
 
As you see from the subject line I am having an embarassing problem. I seen
to have something attached to my IE browser. I have taken several steps to
remove it such as: Spybot-Seach and Destroy/Turned of Messenger/Stinger/and
ran my McAfee program. It is not going away. I know it is attached to the
browser because it only shows up when I am surfing. The url of the pops up
is the (the-best-promos.com). Does anyone have any idea what I can do here?
Thanks for any help.
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Regardless of what anti-spyware tool you use, you need to boot into SAFE
MODE to run them - and you may have to run them several times.

This next part is a blanket response, but the links to the tools are
what you might want to use:

NEVER, NEVER, NEVER download files from an unconfirmed quality site -
the BUTTS sites are known to have unauthorized software on them and
that's just what we can print here.

Ignore anyone with butt in their website name as it's likely to be full
of sh!t - as is the poster of that site.

Only download software you can validate as uncompromised - in the case
of non-vendor site you have no guarantee that the files are unmodified
or uncompromised. Anyone providing a link to a non-vendors site with a
direct download should not be trusted, the vendors sites are the safest
place to download their application.

Always remember - only download files from Trusted Sites.

After you install any of these applications and update them, run them in
SAFE MODE to allow them to properly clean your system.

These sites are for downloading Anti-Spyware tools, in order that I
would use them myself:

AdAwareSE can be found here:
http://www.lavasoft.de/support/download/

SpyBot Search and Destroy can be found here:
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html

HiJack can be found here:
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html

Ewido Security Suite Trial can be found here:
http://www.ewido.net/en/download/

CrapCleaner can be found at the vendors site here:
http://www.ccleaner.com/ccdownload.asp

CleanUp can be found at the vendors site here:
http://www.stevengould.org/software/cleanup/download.html
or from another reputable source:
http://www.tucows.com/get/405276_152071

The following are two links to Antivirus software in order that I would
use them:

You can also download Symantec Trial version of their Antivirus software
from here:
http://www.symantec.com/downloads/

Download AVG Personal Free edition from here:
http://free.grisoft.com/freeweb.php/doc/2/

These are the actual vendors sites, not some unknown or authorized no-
name site. They also don't artificially increase the hits for sites that
get paid for the amount of traffic they can generate like one poster has
admitted to in this group.
 
This is caused by spyware/malware that's gotten installed on
your system. Use Ad-Aware, MSAS and/or Spybot Search & Destroy to remove
it.

Microsoft Anti-Spyware (beta)
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx
Ad-Aware: http://www.lavasoftusa.com/
Spybot: http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html
Good sites on how to install and use Spybot -
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/tutorial/index.html
http://tomcoyote.com/SPYBOT/index1.php

Also download a winsock repair tool, to have just in case cleaning up
anything found breaks it -

Winsock repair tools:
LSPFix- all versions of Windows http://www.cexx.org/lspfix.zip
Winsock2 Fix- Win98, ME
http://www.bu.edu/pcsc/internetaccess/winsock2fix.html
LavaSoft- all versions of Windows-
http://digital-solutions.co.uk/lavasoft/whndnfix.zip

More information here:
http://www.spywareinfo.com/
http://inetexplorer.mvps.org/tshoot.html
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.

Or if you have IE 6 SP-2 you can do this within the browser:
How to manage Internet Explorer add-ons in Windows XP Service Pack 2
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;883256

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://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/files/hijackthis.zip
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
 
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