Spyware Popups

[bluescope]

QUESTION :

Is it only me or is anybody else seeing popup ads for spyware on the IIS home page ?

:shrug:

[GrampianStars]

Download "SpywareBlaster
and a virus check "Avast"

no more problems

[bluescope]

Done ... and it seems to have had an effect ... although I was running SpyBot as I posted this thread and it found a couple of nasties that have been eradicated ... so they may have been the problem. Every bit helps though !
I just wanted to confirm if it was me or the IIS site that had the problem.

Cheers

:thumbsup:

[iceman]

There is absolutely no spyware or popups anywhere on the IceInSpace site.

[Kevnool]

I got to agree no popups nor any nasties here the site runs fine....cheers kev.

[Dennis]

Likewise - never had any pop ups on Ice In Space.

Cheers

Dennis

[vindictive666]

no problems here as well ;)

[renormalised]

No problems at all...you've probably been infected from a another site you've visited.

[cjmarsh81]

Popup ads for spyware are probably related to smitfraud or similar. Most spyware programs will not remove them or they will keep coming back. There is a dedicated smitfraud removal tool - google for it.

If it keeps coming back, you may want to run hijackthis as well and see what services are running on your system.

[White Rabbit]

Keep away from the "naughty sites" and you wont have a problem with spyware ;).

[bluescope]

I'm glad that's the case Mike ... I wasn't trying to say that IIS was the source I was trying to alert members because it only seemed to happen when I logged in to IIS.

I think the particular little nasty likes to jump into advertising spaces on websites and advertise itself. I have reported it to Microsoft and downloaded anti virus/anti spyware programs to deal with it.

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p.s. I think that the source may have been an installation cd for a webcam I bought for my daughter from Hong Kong .... I installed it to make sure the camera worked and since then the problems started.

[bluescope]

Cheers everybody for your comments .... I used to use my Win98 desktop for dialup internet and never had a problem with viruses etc because nobody cared about the old operating system I guess. Vista is a more attractive OS I suppose for those hackers and creeps that like to cause mayhem.

:thumbsup:

[bluescope]

I haven't done anything like that for a long time .... and not on this computer anyway :lol: I'm getting a bit too long in the tooth nowadays.

:thumbsup:

[White Rabbit]

;)