nasty pop-ups and slow performance..

Discussion in 'Malware Help (A Specialist Will Reply)' started by herb, Jun 6, 2007.

  1. herb

    herb Private E-2

    i am getting lots of popups and my computer is slow as mollases. i scanned it with a nice little program called spyware begone and i had CWS interent browser hijacker thingy... i click clean then after a while i restart my computer.. do a scan and it shows up again!!!! VERY annoying,confusing, frustrating, and above all i just want my computer back to its original state..


    all help is muchly appreciated...

    thanks
     
  2. chaslang

    chaslang MajorGeeks Admin - Master Malware Expert Staff Member

    Welcome to Major Geeks!

    Uninstall this program now! It is not high on the recommended list of tools and had been on the rogue tool list for quite some time before being delisted. It was know for problems like you are still seeing and for reporting many other false positives. It still is not a tool we would recommend.

    Please follow our standard cleaning procedures which are necessary for us to provide you support. Also there are steps included for installing, renaming, running, and posting HijackThis logs as attachments.
    • Run ALL the steps in this Sticky thread READ & RUN ME FIRST Before Asking for Support
    • Make sure you check version numbers and get all updates.
    • Very Important: Make sure you tell us the results from running the tutorial...was anything found? Were you unable to complete any of the scans?...Were you unable to download any of the tools?...Did you do the on-line scans as suggested? etc.
    • After doing ALL of the above you still have a problem make sure you have booted to normal mode and run the steps in the below link to properly use HijackThis and attach a log:
    Make sure you also rename HijackThis.exe as suggested in the procedures. Use analyse.exe for the new name. This is very important due to some new infections going around.
    • When you return to make your next post, make sure you attach the following logs and that you have run these scans in the following order too:
      • CounterSpy - only for Windows XP, 2K, & NT users
      • AVG Antispyware log - ONLY IF NEEDED you were not able to run CounterSpy. - only for Windows XP, 2K, & NT users
      • Bitdefender - from step 6
      • Panda Scan - from step 6
      • runkeys.txt - the log from GetRunKey.bat
      • newfiles.txt - the log from ShowNew.bat
      • HijackThis
    NOTE: You can only attach 3 files in a single message so it will require that you use two messages to attach all of these logs!
     

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