Annoying Popup

Starting recently, I am constantly annoyed by a seemingly random popup. Every 10 minutes or so, my browser (Netscape 8.1) opens and a website opens up with weird names like "www.blow-outsale.com/blahblah", "ad-w-a-r-e.com", and "http://www.realcoupon-s.com/normal/XBDYUS.html". Also, there are popups that pop up on the desktop and don't even open up my browser. These have "Close [x]" on the top. When I'm playing a game or surfing the web, this can be very annoying. Also, Windows has little popups on the taskbar that says "Your computer is infected with spyware." which I think comes from a spyware program itself.

I downloaded a program called AntiVir which got rid of a lot of viruses (trojans), but still did not get rid of any of these annoying popups. I downloaded Ewido and have completed a full system scan. Amazingly, it has found 496 infected files.

These advertisements that pop up are yet to be gone, and I can not find a solution to it. Does anyone have any other recommendations?

 

One issue looks to me like spam coming through Windows Messenger Service.

Here's how to disable it,

http://www.itc.virginia.edu/desktop/docs/messagepopup/



snowbound

 

That is not the type of popup I am receiving. I tried the procedure on your link, but the Messenger Service was already disabled.

The types of popups I'm getting are full-page browser advertisements. Also, I'm getting desktop popups that have no title nor window for that matter.

Any other ideas?

P.S. I thought it may have had something to do with some odd processes running in the background, but I've terminated all unusual processes via ediwo and the task manager.

 

it may be overkill, but u could try going thru the General Cleaning Instructions sticky. failing that, post a hijackthis log at the SpywareInfo forums

 

http://img459.imageshack.us/img459/1559/popup8iu.png

This is a picture of one of the advertisements that pops up on my desktop. Some are circles, some are shapes of things such as cell phones.

The other types are full-page advertisements which are opened in a new tab, with, like I said before, have very odd URLs.

Edit: Sorry, I hadn't seen your post, WSFuser. I'll go check out that link. Thanks.

 

those are some fancy pop-ups

 

U definitely have some malware issues. Was Ewido able to get rid of the entries it found?

As WSFuser posted, a HijackThis log analysis would be the best way to go. Here's another site with very good experts in HJT,

http://gladiator-antivirus.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=10517



snowbound

 

download spybot and adaware SE update them and scan.