Pop Ups giving Internet Explorer a virus

From: Chris (dyrnwynx_at_cox.net)
Date: 02/27/04 

Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 14:24:40 -0800

Sounds like what you have is adware. I would recommend
downloading ad aware 6.0 from download.com. To
accomplish this, you may need to boot your system in safe
mode with network support(Tape F8 as it starts up until
the menu comes up, then select safe mode and hit enter).
Try to use your internet from there. If that fails, use
a friend's pc to get ad aware 6.0 and copy the install
files to disks or a CD.

Bear in mind that you may inadvertantly take out your
internest settings by destroying the adware. The only
way I've found to restore them is to go in under your
network settings and remove everything, then use the
regedit to remove your wsock settings. Windows rebuilds
those settings and will reset any changes made.

If you don't want to do something that drastic, perhaps
you should try restoring IE to the previous installation
(If any).

Hope that helps.

>-----Original Message-----
>I recently downloaded Smiley Central. Ever since there
>are several pop up ads that won't go away. They prevent
>me from using Internet Explorer now. I can't even get
it
>to come up. One of the pop ups was selling a product to
>get rid of pop up ads, and they even made my Disk door
>open up on my computer. It said it was selling
something
>to prevent spyware. Now when I try to open Internet
>Explorer, the ad is all I see. It also makes my
computer
>freeze. What should I do? I can't open up Explorer
>without seeing that ad and without my computer
freezing.
>This is bullying people to buy their product and I
really
>resent it.
>
>The above post appeared in December. I'm sorry but my
group access
>only lets me respond by cut-and-paste. I can't post on
the thread.
>
>This sounds like the atoque pop-up. It is a lot like a
virus. It's
>generated off a file in the C:\Windows\System folder.
The problem is
>that each time you start up your browser, the file will
copy itself to
>a new file name and erase the old one. You have to look
for a
>recently modified application file in the format
XXXXXXXX.exe with the
>X's randomly generated alpha-numeric characters. If
you're not sure if
>it's the right one, make note of the file name, use your
browser a few
>times and check to see if it's gone and a new one is
there. Try
>renaming it first to see if it takes care of the
problem. If it does,
>then erase it.
>
>HTH,
>Joe Edwards
>.
>

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