Mozilla Popups

Has anyone else started getting popups on Mozilla? Don't know if this is the correct forum for this or not but is their anything to do if you have been getting them.

 

Havn't had any problems out of mine or heard of any. If your having pop up problems then your most likely infected with some type Malware. If this is the case I would recommend starting general cleanup procedures.

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After doing ALL of the above if you still have a problem:


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well hmmmm I would have swore i was fairly clean (at least Ad aware had said so lol) but spybot found two items. Going back to the same page where I was getting the popup before I took off the two malware items is not yielding a popup now so LOOKS good.

The items found were wild tangent and Mini-bug.

As an inside I currently use the following recommended protections am I doing enuff:

Spygate Personal Firewall
AVG anti virus
Spyware Guard
Spyware Blaster
SecureIt
CCleaner

Regularly run and update Adaware and Spybot. Have run HiJack this occasionally every month or tow using the recommended guides on MajorGeeks as a checker.

Thanks for the help and further input.

 

If you like you can attach a current HJT log just to confirm your clean. Its up to you though!

 

here's the log

 

Your HJT log is clean!

Are you having any problems?

You should see this article on How to Protect yourself from malware!

 

I actually am following that guide pretty much all the way. Only used Mozilla since I started with this computer and use all the other recommended spyware protectors/firewalls etc. Some stuff still slips in though.

Maybe it was Dell they had my computer for the last week becuase my AC cord wasn't working maybe they went crazy lol.

Thanks for the help.

I ran the log through the help2go and it said to remove one thing so I removed it.

Thanks greatly. Hadn't noticed to many problems but had noticed popups which were unusual on Mozilla so I'll keep an eye out to see if they come back.

 

Those websites are NOT 100% accurate so be careful what you remove!

 

will do thanks for the heads up. do you want me to post what was removed and see if I should reverse it with Hijack this?

 

If I had to guess I would say it was the O18 entry below. This is legit, the file mshtml.dll refers to Microsoft HTML Viewer. Its a module containing HTML-related utility functions. Its part of MSIE and shouldnt be removed.

O18 - Protocol: shell - {3050F406-98B5-11CF-BB82-00AA00BDCE0B} - C:\WINDOWS\System32\mshtml.dll

 

hmmm you do this stuff before lol

 

Everyday, All day! LOL!

 

Ok its restored and thank you very much for all your help. When I go to my mother's house again I hope you have the day off last time Ad Aware only found 300 entries this time I'm gonna try to really get it clean, lol.

 

Yeah, thats not good! lol

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