Ad bot problem

[Rivers]

My dumbass cousin got a virus or adbot of some sort from "i-lookup.com" and I got rid of most of its stuff except I cant change the homepage and the toolbar always comes back on the IE. Theres a lot of pop ups involved as well and I tried quite the bit of things and I still can't shake it out. Anyone heard of this before or have any other suggestions on what to do? Thanks.

[Asian Invasian]

wow jeez same exact thing here i need some help too :thumbs: so i used system restore and i dunno i guess it worked :thumbs:

[SALvation]

Did you guys install and run adaware?

[Rivers]

Originally posted by SALvation@Apr 6 2004, 04:21 AM
Did you guys install and run adaware?
Sure did Sal, deep and quick scans and ran some other program. Even Norton2004 and I was able to kill most of it, just not that annoying bar on the IE and the homepage thing. I even went into safe mode and deleted suspicious windows files and searched out "ilookup" and "popup" and still nothing.

[JIMINATOR]

get netscape. unaffected by that sh1t. my bro has the same thing, it bypasses spybot and adaware, and can't help him over the phone.

otherwise a fresh install or repair install of windows should fix it.

if you enjoy pain, look at this thread:
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Miscellane...Q_20907816.html (http://www.experts-exchange.com/Miscellaneous/Q_20907816.html)

[Asian Invasian]

Originally posted by JIMINATOR@Apr 5 2004, 11:13 PM
get netscape. unaffected by that sh1t. my bro has the same thing, it bypasses spybot and adaware, and can't help him over the phone.

otherwise a fresh install or repair install of windows should fix it.

if you enjoy pain, look at this thread:
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Miscellane...Q_20907816.html (http://www.experts-exchange.com/Miscellaneous/Q_20907816.html)
:rofl: id rather stick witht the virus :P

[SALvation]

Download this:

http://www.worldstart.com/weekly-download/...-cleaner4.3.htm (http://www.worldstart.com/weekly-download/archives/reg-cleaner4.3.htm)

and it will let you clean up your registry from any weird keys.

[DiTomasso]

Originally posted by SALvation@Apr 6 2004, 02:26 PM
Download this:

http://www.worldstart.com/weekly-download/...-cleaner4.3.htm (http://www.worldstart.com/weekly-download/archives/reg-cleaner4.3.htm)

and it will let you clean up your registry from any weird keys.
works great, i am using the Jv16 power tools :thumbs: :wave:
Regcleaner is included.

[Asian Invasian]

Originally posted by SALvation@Apr 6 2004, 07:26 AM
Download this:

http://www.worldstart.com/weekly-download/...-cleaner4.3.htm (http://www.worldstart.com/weekly-download/archives/reg-cleaner4.3.htm)

and it will let you clean up your registry from any weird keys.
ah ok thnx sal :thumbs:

[Caged Anger]

go to this site, http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?page=home

it's called spybot - search & destroy. Been usin it for a month and it got rid of a lot of probs. completely free and maybe it can help you.

[Asian Invasian]

alright ill check that out too :thumbs:

[PJ'l_Master]

i use spybot, and ad aware together... :devil:

[Caged Anger]

that's good to hear. I always wanted to get another one, jus to check if spybot was spyware in disguise.

[Caged Anger]

that's good to hear. I always wanted to get another one, jus to check if spybot was spyware in disguise.

[Rivers]

I used spybot and adaware together and it didn't work. Jim was right about Netscape not being effected by that kind stuff. :shifty:

[Rivers]

I used spybot and adaware together and it didn't work. Jim was right about Netscape not being effected by that kind stuff. :shifty: