Adware Help!!!!!

[NIGHTfall_240sx]

ok check this out.. for some reason and some unknown how i got this weird adware on my pc.. i never seen anything like it but it scares the sh1t out of me! its not a popup or anything, its recorded. out of the middle of no where i hear sh1t. like a radio advertisment! I just got one for Careerbuilder.com i am going to call them later and speak with the advertising department. but i am sick of this, this adware scares the fukk outta me at least 1 time a day and i still have no idea how i got it. any help or anyone else with the problem?

[NIGHTfall_240sx]

Nevermind, my friend told me what it is.. it is DeadAIM, a program used to modify AIM. He told me he gets them now and then too. man i wanna kill that ad

[milo]

download adaware

[Cyberkreig]

adaware is lame Get Spybot - Search & Destroy.

Dont believe me, run adaware then run spybot and see how much AA didnt get.

[NIGHTfall_240sx]

have it didnt do anything about the deadaim

[Nathan]

I had spyware open my cd drives the other day and open huge pop up windows that when closed, shut down any other IE windows Adaware killed it...

[offtheline]

Yeah Cyberkreig is right. spybot search and destroy is the best.

[BuudWeizErr]

No it's not. Ad-Aware 6 gets everything. I use both and with the newest update files, I can scan with Spybot, and then Ad-Aware and it will find stuff Spybot didn't, but scan first with Ad-Aware and Spybot won't find anything.

I did it to test them both side by side and I will keep using Ad-Aware. Ad-Aware > *

[JDM]

Yah, Ad-aware 6 is alot better then 5.

[Trppen37]

Download both since their both free...I use Ad-Aware 6 for sh*t Spybot misses and use Spybot for sh*t Ad-Aware misses..

[Cyberkreig]

i downloaded Adaware 6. You guys were right it pickedup several reg entrys and 1 or 2 files that Spybot missed. So i take it back.. but i Spybot sill > Adaware 5

[KoukiS14]

adaware is lame Get Spybot - Search & Destroy.

Dont believe me, run adaware then run spybot and see how much AA didnt get.

I was a huge AdAware sack rider until I got Spybot. . I second you on the Spybot tip. . it found much more than AdAware did.

[Trppen37]

get ad aware 6....ive been getting more from ad aware than spybot lately both of course upgraded with the latest updates..

[KoukiS14]

just use both

[MetaOrbit]

Nevermind, my friend told me what it is.. it is DeadAIM, a program used to modify AIM. He told me he gets them now and then too. man i wanna kill that ad

DeadAIM isn't causing it. AIM now has ads with Audio, so if you have DeadAIM and it hides the ads on the buddy list, you can't see the ads, but you can still hear the audio portion.

Freaked me out too, until I figured out what it was.

[dima]

Use Linux man. For now nothing gets to it

[cls12vg30]

Quote »Download both since their both free...I use Ad-Aware 6 for sh*t Spybot misses and use Spybot for sh*t Ad-Aware misses..[/quote]

Exactly I use both as well. And I've had a couple nasty pieces of spyware that neither one would get, even when I deleted the registry entries the DLL rewrote them immediately, couldn't delete the DLL because there was a hidden browser helper object that locked the DLL and didn't show up anywhere...So as a last resort, download and run "HijackThis!" It doesn't scan in the same way as Adaware and SpyBot, it runs almost instantaneousy. You have to be careful because a lot of the stuff it will list is stuff that should be there and you should leave alone. I only recommend HiJackThis! if you have an idea what you're looking for.

Incidentally, I work in a corporate IT department and last week I was called by an employee whose IE was crashing and was getting massive popups. I ran AdAware on her PC, it found 627 objects! Highest count I've ever seen! Then SpyBot nabbed a few more..I manually uninstalled some other crap, it was a mess. But that woman is the reigning spyware champion at my company, nobody else has beat 627.