- Apr 14, 2001
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My laptop was hit by the antispywareupdate crap a few days ago while on MySpace.
It changed my desktop to a blue screen with white and yellow text and a link to antispyware.net. A yellow triangle would appear in my systray and pop up warning ballons and internet popups would appear regularly.
This is not the old version that can be removed using the tools talked about with this spyware. None of them worked. No combination of them worked in any fashion.
I finally had to just reload XP.
My security settings were ideal, I had all windows updates and I was running Norton 2007 fully updated.
It came as a yellow active x notice below the IE toolbar and gray dialog box asking me if I wanted to run the active x. When I hit the red X to close the dialog box, that's when it hit.
If you get an yellow active x warning below the IE tool bar and a gray dialog box, the best bet is to just pull the plug. Because it didn't seem to load until I tried to close the gray dialog box.
Folks, this is coming from trusted sites through ads.
I'm sure this has been talked about, but this is something new. Nothing fixes it. I sent two days finding the fixes for this and they all failed, which means they found a way around the fixes.
How can these companies stay in business???
It changed my desktop to a blue screen with white and yellow text and a link to antispyware.net. A yellow triangle would appear in my systray and pop up warning ballons and internet popups would appear regularly.
This is not the old version that can be removed using the tools talked about with this spyware. None of them worked. No combination of them worked in any fashion.
I finally had to just reload XP.
My security settings were ideal, I had all windows updates and I was running Norton 2007 fully updated.
It came as a yellow active x notice below the IE toolbar and gray dialog box asking me if I wanted to run the active x. When I hit the red X to close the dialog box, that's when it hit.
If you get an yellow active x warning below the IE tool bar and a gray dialog box, the best bet is to just pull the plug. Because it didn't seem to load until I tried to close the gray dialog box.
Folks, this is coming from trusted sites through ads.
I'm sure this has been talked about, but this is something new. Nothing fixes it. I sent two days finding the fixes for this and they all failed, which means they found a way around the fixes.
How can these companies stay in business???