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Originally posted by Cerek the Barbaric:
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Originally posted by Larry_OHF:
Spybot and Adaware will not help you with this problem entirely. You got this by downloading Bearshare. Right? Ok...to remove it, first get that program I told you about called "Hijack This". It will remove certain inbedded craps that keep it inside your PC. Next, go to add/remove programs and remove SaveNow and Weathercast. Third: Use Adaware to remove the remaining pieces. Then reboot and you will be clean. I have to do this everytime I upgrade bearshare.
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Sorry man, it didn't work. I downloaded Hijack This before, but couldn't find it, so I just downloaded it again. It popped well over 100 files. I deleted 96 that I was sure were trash. Then I went to Add/Remove Programs. SaveNow and Weathercast were nowhere to be found. [img]graemlins/wow.gif[/img] I still did the Adaware and Rebooted. But as soon as I started Browsing the Internet again, there came all the same popups, one after another (as many as 3 at one time [img]graemlins/madhell.gif[/img] ).
I DO have the Google Bar in place and it blocks LOTS of Pop-Ups, but SaveNow seems to be immune to it's efforts. Looks like it might be time to give Mozilla and the other one a try. [/QUOTE]You can also do a search on your computer and sort by modify date. Look back at the history of the newest files. More than likely, a file was executed and is continuing to execute. If you delete the file, it will stop the popups. Unless you run the program that put that file on your system in the first place. I had one in a prefetch folder. I put REM at the beginning of all the filenames that I noticed within the timeframe the popups started and it disabled it. A firewall from that point should be able to help prevent new ones from infecting you.