I am being attacked from all fronts!

Somebody please help me. For the past two days I've been overrun with unstoppable pop-ups, ads, and banners.
I am a novice and am completely overwhelmed. I've been told that hackers have broken in to my system, for what purpose eludes me.
This is the first site that has provided me shelter from the storm!
Can someboby please help me fight back!

Chances are you haven't been hacked, but you've prolly caught some spywear. I'd recommend downloading and running Lavasoft's "Adaware" and "Spybot Search & Destroy".

http://spybot.eon.net.au/

and

http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/

Yes, modern hackers are the internet's answer to those annoying perfume people in department stores, only here rather that spraying perfume in your face to make a sale, they slosh ads all over your screen. ;)

catch

PS. Yes, I am kidding. Sounds like you inadvertantly installed some form of adware as stated by endotoxin. (comet curso and bonzi buddy (?) are common suspects)

Oh dear lord, may I never have to deal with that purple ape again!

See, once upon a time I worked as a phonemonkey for a well-known and powerful internet service provider *coughcoughEARTHLINKcough*. Now for some odd reason, we techs were not allowed to support anything that was not communications related, EXCEPT for BonsiBuddy.

The fix for removing BB from a Win32 or VWin32 system is several pages long, involving numerous registry hacks and DOS-based systemfile deletes.

And this was necessary, as BB would patch and insert itself into the lowest levels of the OS. Literally everything. Hell, I remember trying to launch edit.exe from a command window, and that little ape popped up asking if I wanted to download the latest version of Bloated_Ascii_editor_.exe.

God I hated that ape.

Hi,

Remember to update SpyBot and AdAware before you run them. :)

Also try http://www.swatit.org and get/update/run SwatIT 2.1 (this takes a while but digs pretty deep)

And http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/index.html you want Hijack This.

It will show you what is running on your machine, but please be careful, it shows everything, not just scumware.

Also http://www.wilderssecurity .net

and get Spyware Guard and Spyware Blaster

Good Luck

That stupid ape was funny when you got it to say dirty things :)
And then 5 minutes later it was annoying as hell....Everybody looks like they got a piece of the puzzle covered...
A simple solution you might want to look at, is by going to your Control Panel>Add/Remove Apps/ and see if theres anything you don't recognize that may have been installed as spyware from other applications.
Another good application to stop popups on the net is the google toolbar, I find it handy every once in awhile....

Haha...bonzai buddy...*shakes head*

Well everything seems to be covered except if you are running a window OS then it might also be the messenger service covering your screen with pop-up messages. To kill it go to
Start-Control Panel-Administrative Tools-Services then scroll down to messenger, right click on it the click properties. Under start-up type select disabled. That should take care of the problem if its messenger doing the dirty work.
Good Luck!

Everybody else covered most of the stuff but since you are a complete newbie I will fill in the rest :D

In addition to the software stated above also get a good virusscanner and a personal firewall. And last but not least: Keep it all up to date. This also includes (but is not limited to) running Windows Update on a regular basis.

Not to beat a dead horse, but after you install the AV and spyware killers, boot up in safe mode then update and scan.

i guess try deleting all temporary internet files, cookines... that way atleast u will see some change in the unwanted mails that u are receiving....

As suggested by friends here... look out if there is a new program that has been added to ur system...

After screening and clearing the system with presumed trojan / software... with either adware or spybot....

I would suggest that u also download Zonealarm (Free Version) and then try controlling the traffic..... (Zone alarm is very simple to use.. just be careful to what all connections are u granting the access)....

Regards

If you have Xp you may notice pop ups still come thru. Even once spybot is run. This is because someone has hijacked your messenger (Not to be confused with Msn Messenger) to spam you. This messenger is normally used to send messages in house so to speak within an intranet. To disable these type of pop up. Go to control Panel then administrative tools choose/ click - Services within this pain find Messenger on the list. To the right of Messenger you will see four columns. Choose Start up type Left click the word in this column twice a properties pan pops up again look for the word Start up type click the arrow to the right of current selection a drop down list pops up choose disabled.

Again this will not disable your Msn Messenger this is a separate messenger service.

Good Luck all!

Don't forget "GAIN". FYI: They have changed their name to something but i can't remember what So BEWARE!

I would recommend Ad-Aware (http://www.ad-aware.com) and scann you entire pc with that. Also the google toolbar has a popup stopper that works fine for me.

DO NOT DOWNLOAD KAZAA OR IMESH!!! They are full of spy and ad ware.

Since this is already been really well covered, I can't say anything that would help you but I agree with endotoxin that it *is* funny to teach it to say dirty things....especially on other people's computers :p . I never had the thing installed on my own computer, but I'd mess with other people's and I knew from their experiences that I didn't want it.

Once upon a time, I saw a large text file that included several hundred annoying popup, porn, and spyware websites/IP addresses. The text file included instructions on how to copy it to your local hosts(?) file so that anytime a program demanded a popup, the machine checkd its own IP address and couldn't find it. Cut out ninety percent of the irritation I was getting. I believe it came with the "other" version of Kazaa...

If you think dat you've been attacked and your a complete newbie about that watz going on in your computer like what you read above try to do the following

1. Find a freeware that can clean and scan your computer for the trojan and etc..
2. Get a firewall to protect your computer!!!
3. Always update your anti-viruss every week!!!

here a link of cleaner and a firewall

http://vil.nai.com/vil/stinger/
http://www.agnitum.com/products/outpost/
http://www.moosoft.com/
http://www.symantec.com/nav/

try visiting the links above for more help

Ehm,
This is pointed to adware.
Try ad-aware which you can download from htpp://www.download.com
This will remove your adware progs, even keys in your registry.

Download attacker from www.foundstone.com. This will notify you if someone or something is trying to connect to a udp or tcp port. Would'nt be a bad idea to buy yourself a copy of zone alarm and pest patrol.

Hi all,

i'm totally new in this, so i hope i don't say anything wrong.

But i would also get lava soft Ad-aware 6 pro (for your problem) you can download this from Kazaa Lite at http://www.klitesite.com/ or get the official Kazaa, or just Lavaa Ad-aware 6.

I would not download zonealarm! I just had that product, and my system get unstable.

Kind regards

Frank