Popups are beginning to annoy me..

Hi everyone,

I'm pretty good at removing and tracking down spyware/viruses and things as a general hobby. However, this popup I keep recieving has me stumped. I've read some pre-steps to take before posting here and went through them all.. I never used HijackThis, so I'm going to take your word not to touch anything and leave it to the pros!! ... I do however see a few shady things.

I've attached my log file..


Here is what I think I should fix, just from the little research I did.. Lets see whether I was correct or If I would of crash my whole system... .. Actually, I'll just leave it to someone to direct me on what to remove, if anything....

I appreciate your time, and thank you in advance!!

Cheers

 

Here are the 3 of the 5 requested scans.. Please review, problems were found...

 

Last two requested scans.. Let me know the next steps to the process!!

Thanks Again.

 

Using add/remove programs which can be accessed from the control panel, uninstall the following:

Download and install Sun Java Runtime Environment 5.0 Update 9


Download

- Pocket KillBox


Run HijackThis. Click the 'Do a system scan only' button.

Place a checkmark in the box next to the following lines:

Click on the 'Fix checked' button. Wait for HijackThis to finish; close HijackThis.

Now run Pocket Killbox:

Paste the below filenames into KILL BOX one at a time. Check mark the box that says "Delete on Reboot" and checkmark the box "Unregister DLL" (If available) Click the RED X and it will ask you to confirm the file for deletion say YES and when the next box opens prompting you to reboot now...click NO...and proceed with the next file. Once you get to the last one click YES and it will reboot.

If Killbox does not reboot or you get a Pending Operations type error message just reboot your PC yourself.

Now boot into SAFE MODE

Open Windows Explorer navigate to and DELETE the following: (Some of these may have already been deleted by Pocket Killbox)

If you have Windows XP delete the contents of C:\WINDOWS\Prefetch.


REBOOT to Normal Mode.

Let me know how things are running now

Post a fresh HijackThis log, a fresh newfiles log and a fresh activescan log.

 

I went through the process and everything went smoothly.

Question:
First, can I ever download PartyPoker again??


Also, after I was finished your steps I figured I should toggle my Windows System Restore. This way if a restore point was created it wouldn't of saved all these viruses again. However, when I go in to turn it back on I get


An exception occurred while trying to run "C:\Windows\system32\shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL "C:\Windows\System32\sysdm.cpl",System"

But I know after I deleted the contents from the Prefetch folder, I toggled System Restore and then rebooted my computer.

As long as everything else works fine I'm not too worried about my system restore..

Thanks for the help though!

 

Are you still experiencing popups ?

How close were you?

You can install partypoker again if you like, but I am always wary of poker games. Many of them use popups and adware as a source of revenue.

you should work thru the below link:
How to Protect yourself from malware!

 

It has been 3 days and still no popups.. I appreciate your help. I also learned some new things!

Thanks man

 

No problem.

Happy Surfing!