www.betterservice.info pop-up

Hey all,

Getting a pop-up telling me to go to www.betterservice.info. Already tried HijackThis, CWShredder, manually scanning the registry, and Norton. Any suggestions? It's on an XP and I'm not too familiar with them so I don't wanna break it :0P Thanks.

Cat

It's there in the HiJack this..... post the scan as a text file with any identifying information obfuscated and let's see if we can't weed the little bugger out of there....

Try to use Firefox explorer, It's great and it blocks popups, its very fast browsing, in my opinion much better than internet explorer.
Give it a try :)

"Firefox Explorer" ... that must be a new one

i know its not Firefox Explorer. Its Mozilla Firefox, but its a web browser, thats why i sayd Explorer. Im sorry if i caused any confusion here

or you could just use spybot s&d or some other spyware scanner and scan for spyware. CWS doesn't scan for all spywares you know. And sadly :( Norton doesn't find every single spyware. Then, go to http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/ and get Spyware Blaster to prevent future infections. :)

i would give 'ad aware' a chance. the program is free and available at http://www.lavasoftusa.com/

once installed, update your definition files.

reboot into safe mode (hold in f8 key after post completes on reboot).

run a full system scan and see what you come up with.

Boring, but here goes:

Spybot Search & Destroy

http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html

AdAware SE Personal Edition

http://www.lavasoftusa.com/support/download

Ewido

http://www.ewido.net/en/

A-Squared

http://www.emisoft.com/en/software/free/

Get them all, update them then boot into SAFE MODE (F8) and run them. Do the same with CWS Shredder and your AV.

Then run the Hijack This scan that Tiger~ suggests.

When you have it all cleaned out, as already suggested:

Spyware Blaster

http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html

Win Patrol

http://www.winpatrol.com

RegistryProt

http://www.diamondcs.au.com


And run the "immunization" option in Spybot S & D

I would be inclined to turn java cacheing off and clear out your browser cache, history (and java cache if you are using it) after every online session and BEFORE re-booting.

EDIT: I see

:D VanEck beat me to part of it :)

*al1aprize races into the room, bumps the thread, and runs off to do whatever his crazy intentions suggest*
;) Good Luck solving your problems ;)