Spyware & Bogus Advertisement :cry:

Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2003 7:01 am

Hello,

I know my computer has been infected with spyware. Whenever I logon to the internet no matter what website I visit I receive this "showbehind" popup. At first I thought this popup came from the website that I've visited since many websites do the popup behind webpage. Well, I know for certain I do not have any popup codes on my website therefore when I logged online the first website I visited was mine. Lord behold, there goes that "show behind" popup. I did some research on the internet about spyware to find that one of the well known spyware is the "unwanted popups". Now here goes the bogus advertisment. I search the web for "free" spyware detect & remove software. I found one that I thought was free and could get the spyware files off my computer. I downloaded it, I installed it, I executed it, it scanned my computer gave me a list of at least 18 files that was possible spyware and yes indeed one of those files was the "show behind" dll file located in my system folder and registration. What a joke this software turned out to be. Free my a$$ Evil or Very Mad

the only thing free about this software was the scan. In order to remove the files I had to purchase the software for $100. Yikes!! BOGUS ADVERTISEMENT. I said to devil land with this software I removed it from my computer and guess what? Every freaking time I logon the internet, this popup appear from the software I installed & removed telling me about some ALERT spyware detected. Well good lord, the spyware is theirs. Yes the showbehind popup is there but now I have to deal with their popup as well. What this software did was removed everything but one file (their spyware popup telling me about another spyware file) ha ha ha. What a joke. Today I downloaded another spyware program (crossing fingers) I sure hope this one can get the job done without costing me $100.

Captain Joined: Nov 05, 2003 Posts: 353

SpyBot! Download and run it.
If you normally downloading things from internett almost every day, make the ruel that you run spybot every day.

Captain Joined: Sep 16, 2003 Posts: 380

Try Ad-Aware:

http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/

I've been using it for a while now. It's free, updated regularly and detects/removes just about everything.

HTH,

gschoper

Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2003 9:27 am

Yup, its Ad-Aware for me too.

Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2003 4:46 am

Thanks guys! I download ad-aware and it removed all those spyware files. I like this software. Thanks for recommending it.

Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2003 2:58 pm

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Nuke Cadet Joined: Nov 30, 2003 Posts: 1

Guy here i had used many kind of spyware and other software......adaware too but it still did't work at all....the advertisment keep on poping out wat should i do now???? Sad

Nuke Cadet Joined: Jan 04, 2004 Posts: 1

I downloaded ad-aware and it has detected and deleted the hidden pop up program, but everytime i restart my computers the pop ups re-appear and ad-aware finds the same files and deletes them again. is there anyway to permanently delete them.