I'm 'bout ready to throttle myself

[Markz]

For 3 months now I'm getting stupid pop-ups coming through IE (I use firefox!) It's so irritating they freeeze the computer for 2 mins and just f*ck me around.

I have already used, Hijack this, Spybot, Anti-Virus scan and I even tried to get clever on it's ass...nothing happened.

For the love of all that is unholy help!!


(P.S long time...whats up??)

 

[Italian Outsider]

If it's what i'm thinking,you should try to remove manually the .exe that generates them; and the .exe that re-generates the previous one.99% of the time works.

 

[Markz]

Could you elaborate?

 

[Italian Outsider]

Well, i need some details to be sure what you got,can you get a screenshot of the pop-up?
I think you got a classic ''advertisement'' program, not really a virus, a sort of.Since it's not dangerous,just annoying, some of the anti-whatever don't even recognise it as a threat, or they kill it only partially.To kill it you have to find the executive of the program, which generates the pop-up, and possibly another executive, which re-generates the other executive if deleted;

To find the executive, open task manager, see the running executives and try to recognise the pop-up generator(strange names,descriptions).
If you are 100% you got it, open the folder where it is, and delete it.Do some tests to see if you still got pop-ups, if so, you deleted the wrong executive(which may cause troubles, so be careful before deleting).If not restart the pc and do some tests again, if the executive is back, there is a re-generator.To kill it use the same way.

Vista has some ''tools'' that may help,but i'll leave them as last resource.

 

[Markz]

I fixed now, thanks.