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ironfly
Joined: 28 Aug 2008
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Location: Chicago
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Mon Sep 21, 2009 8:41 am |
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In the last week or so I keep getting redirected to ad pages, ad pop-ups that lock up the page or get error messages. especially when I try to get to my PMs.
it seems to be the worst with IE but happens with Firefox and chrome too.
happens the least with chrome. it's happened at home and at work. |
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doesntski
Joined: 05 Jan 2007
Posts: 267
Location: A nade toss from micro$oft
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Mon Sep 21, 2009 11:20 am |
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yeah i get the redirects and pop-ups too...
no errors or locks tho
thought it was just bad cookies or something 
i use firefox exclusively  |
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ironfly
Joined: 28 Aug 2008
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Location: Chicago
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Mon Sep 21, 2009 7:00 pm |
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I use FF at home but at work we use several web queries that only work in IE (bad coding) and I have alot of excel macros that open web pages and of course excel being a MS product it only will open in IE.
never really liked chrome but atleast it's pretty small and clean, uses alot less cpu than IE or FF. |
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ODUS
Joined: 07 May 2006
Posts: 515
Location: s/e of disorder
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Mon Sep 21, 2009 7:03 pm |
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ironfly
Joined: 28 Aug 2008
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Location: Chicago
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Mon Sep 21, 2009 8:53 pm |
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found 2 rootkits on my old computer. not sure where they were picked up but it was recent. I redid the drive last week, including a partial low level format (first 300MB & last 100MB) so the boot sector and temp files were clean.
the joys of owning computers! |
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ODUS
Joined: 07 May 2006
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Location: s/e of disorder
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Tue Sep 22, 2009 1:28 pm |
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what kind of anti-malware/ant-virus software do you use? I have had excellent results using Spyware Blaster and Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware.  |
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ironfly
Joined: 28 Aug 2008
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Location: Chicago
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Tue Sep 22, 2009 4:54 pm |
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active is Symantec Corporate
also have Spybot, RegRun Reannnimator, HiJackThis, and Partizan Rootkit Killer.
antivirus and antispyware won't catch rookits which is why Symantec didn't find anything. found them in HiJackThis but couldn't get rid of them but the rootkit killer got them.
think I figured out where the rootkits came from. my daughter was trying to watch Yu-Gi-Oh vidoes. I had bookmarked some safe streaming sites but she Googled it and went to some other site. |
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S@rg3
Joined: 21 Feb 2009
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Location: Dallas
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Wed Sep 23, 2009 9:55 am |
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Never had any problems with yalls site. I have never had a PM so....... |
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ironfly
Joined: 28 Aug 2008
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Location: Chicago
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Thu Sep 24, 2009 9:30 pm |
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another redirect but can't complain about this one
sent me to VidShadow.tv and played videos of girls in bikinis  |
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ODUS
Joined: 07 May 2006
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Thu Oct 08, 2009 1:11 am |
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Any more problems?  |
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ironfly
Joined: 28 Aug 2008
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Thu Oct 08, 2009 9:26 pm |
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it's been good recently |
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ODUS
Joined: 07 May 2006
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Location: s/e of disorder
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Thu Oct 08, 2009 11:20 pm |
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| Never had any problems with yalls site. I have never had a PM so....... |
I think you have
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Alright, so hopefully the ads were the problem  |
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S@rg3
Joined: 21 Feb 2009
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Location: Dallas
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Fri Oct 09, 2009 9:22 am |
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Oh, ya. It has been a while. Well, i have never had a popup or redirect that i can recolect. |
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I use Firefox and the add-on, adblock plus 1.1.1