Tech: Virus, or something...

Subject: Tech: Virus, or something...
From: Blissfully Ignorant
Date: 02 May 05 - 12:08 PM

Hello, i have popups chasing me everywhere i go and a strange thing has appeared on the toolbar.

Subject: RE: Tech: Virus, or something...
From: Peace
Date: 02 May 05 - 12:09 PM

Describe the strange thing.

Subject: RE: Tech: Virus, or something...
From: GUEST
Date: 02 May 05 - 12:13 PM

probably mal-ware or spyware. Download and use something like ad-aware or spybot search and destroy.

Subject: RE: Tech: Virus, or something...
From: Blissfully Ignorant
Date: 02 May 05 - 12:16 PM

It's like a strange new bit on the toolbar, it's only there sometimes....the thing has been slow for a while too. I'm runnin a scan thingy:)

Subject: RE: Tech: Virus, or something...
From: Peace
Date: 02 May 05 - 12:19 PM

Take GUEST's advice.

Download and use something like ad-aware or spybot search and destroy.

PS You on IE or Mozilla?

Subject: RE: Tech: Virus, or something...
From: Blissfully Ignorant
Date: 02 May 05 - 12:21 PM

IE, i think....i'm incredibly stupid when it comes to stuff like this. Technology hates me, and i regard it with suspicion....:)

Subject: RE: Tech: Virus, or something...
From: Peace
Date: 02 May 05 - 12:24 PM

When your machine gets a cleaning, change your search engine to Mozilla Firefox. It works as well and is also free. It does a good job itself of blocking pop ups.

However, I have little more to add. The guys and gals who really know this stuff will be able to give you step-by-step info.

Subject: RE: Tech: Virus, or something...
From: Blissfully Ignorant
Date: 02 May 05 - 12:27 PM

Thanks, guys! :)

Subject: RE: Tech: Virus, or something...
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 02 May 05 - 12:30 PM

Re Technology hates me, and i regard it with suspicion....:)

This is just a cop-out, nominalization, to use the technical term. Two people have told you to download spybot and ad-aware. If you don't know how to do that, then you can ask how.

Sorry to sound cranky, but asking for help and then dodging the answers is just a Game People Play.

Subject: RE: Tech: Virus, or something...
From: Peace
Date: 02 May 05 - 12:31 PM

Bad day, huh?

Subject: RE: Tech: Virus, or something...
From: Blissfully Ignorant
Date: 02 May 05 - 12:33 PM

Jesus, sorry if i pissed you off...here, have a cup of tea and chill out! :)

Subject: RE: Tech: Virus, or something...
From: Peace
Date: 02 May 05 - 12:47 PM

Tea leads to flatulence, IMO.

Subject: RE: Tech: Virus, or something...
From: Bill D
Date: 02 May 05 - 01:02 PM

well, I hate to say this, and I don't mean to sound TOO grumpy, butit's gonna be very hard to make suggestions when confronted with terms like "scan thingy" and when you don't know stuff like the NAME of your browser.

This technology is here, and it's a big part of our lives. We need to grasp a basic understanding or terms, locations, etc....or actually get someone to come in a set you up as close to a 'safe' setup as possible, and show you...hands on....what buttons to push and whot NOT to do. If you just plug in a computer and go, with no protective devices, it's only a matter of time until something does nasty things to it. It's sad that it has to be that way, but it's just like locking the doors of your car and holding your purse safely....

and as my Daddy used to say, "You ain't gonna learn this any younger" *wry grin*.....


do you know ANYONE who can take a look at the system locally and make suggestions?

Subject: RE: Tech: Virus, or something...
From: Blissfully Ignorant
Date: 02 May 05 - 01:44 PM

Well, i have done what you suggested and it seems to be okay now. THankyou! :)

"You ain't gonna learn this any younger" ?
If i grew any younger, i'd have to start wearing a plunge bra to get into bars again. And when you wear a plunge bra in a bar, you get strange men hitting on you :)

Subject: RE: Tech: Virus, or something...
From: Bill D
Date: 02 May 05 - 02:57 PM

".. when you wear a plunge bra in a bar, you get strange men hitting on you :)"

funny, I never had any problems....maybe it was the hair on my chest ;>)

Hope it keeps working well!

Subject: RE: Tech: Virus, or something...
From: Blissfully Ignorant
Date: 02 May 05 - 03:00 PM

Thanks:)


In some of the bars round here, a hairy chest might prove to be quite a turn on.

Subject: RE: Tech: Virus, or something...
From: mandoleer
Date: 02 May 05 - 03:59 PM

Get BHO Demon and WinPatrol as well. They run in the background and keep watch for odd things happening (to put it in a very technical way). And don't pay any money for anti-spyware stuff. Some of the paid-for spyware removers do a very good job of removing other people's spyware and them put their own in. Or on a 'free trial' they find all sorts of stuff that's not there so that you will pay for their software which will successfully 'remove' it. Stick to LavaSoft AdAware, SpyBot Search & Destroy and the other two I've mentioned. Send them a donation if you can, but they don't insist on it.

Subject: RE: Tech: Virus, or something...
From: mack/misophist
Date: 03 May 05 - 12:48 AM

Odds are you know or related to a burgeoning techie who would be delighted to install Firefox for you and clean up your other problems. If so, remember to have them update java, flash, etc. With luck, they might even be able to explain what they did.