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Cookie Invasion - Virus? Please Help!

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  • Poosmate
    Poosmate Posts: 3,126 Forumite
    I'll download that ccleaner now and delete them with that. There are a hardcore of about 16 that I can't delete but hopefully ccleaner will do the job!

    I'll let you know how I get on.

    Thanks

    Poo
    One of Mike's Mob, Street Found Money £1.66, Non Sealed Pot (5p,2p,1p)£6.82? (£0 banked), Online Opinions 5/50pts, Piggy points 15, Ipsos 3930pts (£25+), Valued Opinions £12.85, MutualPoints 1786, Slicethepie £0.12, Toluna 7870pts, DFD Computer says NO!
  • closed
    closed Posts: 10,886 Forumite
    edited 31 March 2011 at 12:38AM
    then follow this skipping step 3 for now, it should take 10 minutes

    https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/2436849

    link for ccleaner is in step2

    post a fresh hijackthis log when you have finished
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  • Poosmate
    Poosmate Posts: 3,126 Forumite
    I've done ccleaner and it deleted all of the cookies. I let MSN.com back on (took off the restricted list) and the cookies are poring in again! The lights are going ten to the dozen!!!

    On the plus side, my pc is about as fast as it was when new! lol

    I may have to block MSN again. I'll have a look where they're coming from.

    Poo
    One of Mike's Mob, Street Found Money £1.66, Non Sealed Pot (5p,2p,1p)£6.82? (£0 banked), Online Opinions 5/50pts, Piggy points 15, Ipsos 3930pts (£25+), Valued Opinions £12.85, MutualPoints 1786, Slicethepie £0.12, Toluna 7870pts, DFD Computer says NO!
  • Poosmate
    Poosmate Posts: 3,126 Forumite
    All MSN cookies "Img catalgue MSN Video" cookies won't delete again. All the other MSn cookies deleted but again I have a hardcore of about16 that are not deleting.

    The downloading cookies has stopped now.

    I'll do that disable msn messenger thing now.

    Poo
    One of Mike's Mob, Street Found Money £1.66, Non Sealed Pot (5p,2p,1p)£6.82? (£0 banked), Online Opinions 5/50pts, Piggy points 15, Ipsos 3930pts (£25+), Valued Opinions £12.85, MutualPoints 1786, Slicethepie £0.12, Toluna 7870pts, DFD Computer says NO!
  • closed
    closed Posts: 10,886 Forumite
    Keep asking this, close your browser, does it stop or not?
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  • Poosmate
    Poosmate Posts: 3,126 Forumite
    Yes it stops when I have my browser closed.
    One of Mike's Mob, Street Found Money £1.66, Non Sealed Pot (5p,2p,1p)£6.82? (£0 banked), Online Opinions 5/50pts, Piggy points 15, Ipsos 3930pts (£25+), Valued Opinions £12.85, MutualPoints 1786, Slicethepie £0.12, Toluna 7870pts, DFD Computer says NO!
  • closed
    closed Posts: 10,886 Forumite
    edited 31 March 2011 at 1:03AM
    uninstall your toolbars, steps 7 and 10 in the guide

    then follow the rest of the advice (unless you've already done it) above from the beginning of your thread.
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  • Poosmate
    Poosmate Posts: 3,126 Forumite
    Just deleted all the cookies again and they all actually deleted. Yay! Seem to be getting somewhere now.

    I did the thing with the msconfig and rebooted and a message popped up saying the Utility Manager put the system in diagnostic mode because I had changed some of the startup procedures. Is this normal? And is it ok?

    I came on to MSE by opening a programme through a shortcut I have on my desktop not through MSN which is my set homepage on my Internet Explorer shortcut icon and hardley any cookies have downloaded. I still have MSN on unrestricted.

    I will access MSN through a tab in this browser and see what happens.

    Then I'll do post #33.

    Poo
    One of Mike's Mob, Street Found Money £1.66, Non Sealed Pot (5p,2p,1p)£6.82? (£0 banked), Online Opinions 5/50pts, Piggy points 15, Ipsos 3930pts (£25+), Valued Opinions £12.85, MutualPoints 1786, Slicethepie £0.12, Toluna 7870pts, DFD Computer says NO!
  • closed
    closed Posts: 10,886 Forumite
    It's normal

    uninstall msn toolbars, and anything associated, and setting your homepage to google might be advantageous
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  • Poosmate
    Poosmate Posts: 3,126 Forumite
    OK now that's interesting! I did as I said above and the download rate is normal - i.e. lights not going potty! And no msn cookies appeared in Temp Int Files yet!

    The second part of this test is now to open MSN from that internet explorer shortcut on my desktop and see what happens then.

    I'll let you know what happens.

    Poo
    One of Mike's Mob, Street Found Money £1.66, Non Sealed Pot (5p,2p,1p)£6.82? (£0 banked), Online Opinions 5/50pts, Piggy points 15, Ipsos 3930pts (£25+), Valued Opinions £12.85, MutualPoints 1786, Slicethepie £0.12, Toluna 7870pts, DFD Computer says NO!
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