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for the love of God somebody help me

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IKeelU

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This annoying porn pop-up keeps appearing even when I'm not using internet explorer! Normally, you just close them and they don't bother you anymore, but this one keeps asking me to download something. When I cancel, it asks me to download something else, then brings me to another site, etc... So far, the only way to close it in one shot is to enter the windows task manager and end the process IEXPLORE.EXE. Now even this I wouldn't mind doing if it didn't cause my games to minimize.
BTW, I scanned my hard drive using norton AV 2002 and the latest virus definitions so I know thats not it. :|
 
go to add-remove programs and see if some random prog you don't recognize was recently installed.

get a popup removal utility.

get a trojan scanner, not just antivirus.
 


<< This annoying porn pop-up keeps appearing even when I'm not using internet explorer! Normally, you just close them and they don't bother you anymore, but this one keeps asking me to download something. When I cancel, it asks me to download something else, then brings me to another site, etc... So far, the only way to close it in one shot is to enter the windows task manager and end the process IEXPLORE.EXE. Now even this I wouldn't mind doing if it didn't cause my games to minimize.
BTW, I scanned my hard drive using norton AV 2002 and the latest virus definitions so I know thats not it. :| >>



I've got the same problem, but I think I know what did it to my computer.. Some thing called
'escorcher' which claims to be a free antivirus program that puts ads on your computer.. My
ads aren't porn, but they're just as irritating.

Apparently I inadvertently agreed to download it one time.

Now I can't figure out how to get rid of it, tried Ad-aware, etc...

I don't want to just block the hosts, because I'd rather get rid of the code that's doing this..

Ugh.
 
I came across this problem once on a clients computer. He had agreed to download something from a casino web site and from that day forward his computer would try to download the 6MB file over his modem every time he booted. The little ah heck was wedged in there pretty good. The executable that was initiating the download wasn't named anything similar to the name of the casino or the name of file it was trying to download.

He was using Windows98 so first I disabled all his startup items by going into the System Configuration Utility (Start>programs>accessories>system tools>system information>system configuration). Then I went down the list and activated each of the unknown items on the startup list one at a time and rebooted until I found the culprit. At that point I deleted the file, which happened to be hiding in the windows/system32 folder. The little ah heck was flagged to be loaded at startup in the registry so I had to do a regclean as well.
 
If none of it works, try using msconfig (start, run, msconfig) and go to the last tab (startup) and uncheck anything that doesnt seem right.
 
OK, I tried a trojan remover and it found nothing, so I used msconfig. Under the services tab, I found Machine Debug Manager from an unknown manufacturer. Does anyone else have this? (I would stop it only the pop-ups appear randomly and infrequently, so I wouldn't know if it worked). Under the startup tab, can anyone tell me what these things do (or if they have them too):
RUNDLL32
qttask
ctfmon

 
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