How do you purge evil from your PC...

GasX

Lifer
Feb 8, 2001
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when AVG, spybot and Ad-aware aren't enough?

my brothers PC has been taken over by some sort of evil pop-up demon...
 

Farfrael

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Mar 6, 2002
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the greatest exorcism : format
And after that, maybe stop using ie as a browser ?

LOL @ fermium
 

neutralizer

Lifer
Oct 4, 2001
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Get rid of pop-up demon with a program called "hijackthis," either that or get a popup blocker.
 

VictorLazlo

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Jul 23, 2003
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Let the smoke out.

Did you try housecall? Works better on viruses than spyware, but you never know:
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When I have spyware that Ad-Aware doesn't catch, I got through all the running processes, and search the web for any I don't immediately recognise (also look closer at the ones you do recognise, because it could be spyware pretending to be a valid process). If you search google groups for a file, and that file is associated with spyware, you will usually find out right away.
 

GasX

Lifer
Feb 8, 2001
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ah... hijackthis - that is what I was trying to remember the name of...