Help Adware in my system and cant get rid off

amit_1

I have used around 10 different adware,spywear programs which include spybot,spydoctor,ad-aware,no adware, BST or something like that+other 1s they are all upto date all software find different things, i erase every thing they find. when i do a scan 1 hr later they find more things in my sysem so there is some file, program in my system which is smart enough not to be icked in scans. Every time i use the internet i keep get ad msg pop up cant get rid of them at all is doing my head in.+ I hav also scnned my system using Mcafee for virus but it found noting. Please help

Fran

Have you run these with system restore turned off and in safe mode?

Try Ewido

amit_1

what will happen if i run it in safemode?

Fran

The non-techie answer is that nothing can get at you while you're doing it.

bbb_uk

You say after an hour they come back again which would indicate that either you are visiting a website that is installing them again or spyware/adware is still running in the background.

If you do Ctrl-Alt-Del and click on Processes, can you see any process that you don't know what it belongs to/you don't think should be there?

amit_1

all i am vistng is yahoo,hotmail,msn etc no other websit + this website. I have 60+ processess running which is alot. i think i will scan in safe mode and let u no what happens

peter_the_piper

You don't say if you are running with a firewall, if not it is ESSENTIAL you get one, as yet I don't think the XP one is good enough, free ones links available on this site. I also suggest you get Spywareblaster to help preventing them in the first place.

T4i

amit_1 wrote:

I have 60+ processess running which is alot.

That is alot! Bet some of them say '-stupidname-toolbar.exe'

Have you got the M$ spyware? http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=90&p=&SrcDisplayLang=en&SrcCategoryId=&SrcFamilyId=321cd7a2-6a57-4c57-a8bd-dbf62eda9671&genscs=&u=http%3a%2f%2fdownload.microsoft.com%2fdownload%2f8%2f1%2f5%2f815d2d60-49b5-44dc-ae35-fca2f2c6f0cc%2fMicrosoftAntiSpywareInstall.exe

Update it after install and scan. Its quite good.

gk172

Look in your add/remove and see if theres anything installed that shouldnt be and remove what you dont want, also in spybot there is the option to change to advanced mode and change the settings to allow beta versions which i have done and when i run spybot it gets rid of stuff that wouldnt go prior to allowing beta version and then i immunise too.

veronarona

I'm not a techie but I wonder if you need "Shoot the Messenger". There is a prog in Windows called Windows Messenger that can be nabbed by baddies to plague you with pop-ups, and shootthemessenger switches it off, kaput in an instant.

http://grc.com/stm/shootthemessenger.htm

veronarona