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Fake Spyware popup
Oct 16^th, 2008 at 10:01pm

Picked this effen PITA today....it landed on my toolbar and pops up a fake "Your computer is infected" etc. box that I cannot dump. It pops up every few minutes and before I wreck my keyboard and grind my teeth to a nub, I'm wondering if there is something I can download or do about it? From what I read, I'm not alone with this thing.

I need something in English so I can kill the thing. My skills are nothing to write home about as you know. Is there something I can do about it? Bear in mind that I don't know much about this stuff and anything close to computerese will be Greek to me.

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Melissa CH.com Moderator CH.com Alumnus Offline Don't give up! Posts: 7238 Central WI, USA Gender:	Re: Fake Spyware popup Reply #1 - Oct 16^th, 2008 at 10:03pm Charlie, you gotta stop reading the Daily KOS. JUST kidding!
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Charlie CH.com Alumnus Offline Happy to be here Posts: 18971 Jamestown, NY Gender:	Re: Fake Spyware popup Reply #2 - Oct 16^th, 2008 at 10:15pm KOS? Charlie
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Melissa CH.com Moderator CH.com Alumnus Offline Don't give up! Posts: 7238 Central WI, USA Gender:	Re: Fake Spyware popup Reply #3 - Oct 16^th, 2008 at 10:23pm this place Charlie: Multimedia File Viewing and Clickable Links are available for Registered Members only!! You need to or
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Charlie CH.com Alumnus Offline Happy to be here Posts: 18971 Jamestown, NY Gender:	Re: Fake Spyware popup Reply #4 - Oct 16^th, 2008 at 10:39pm Thanks Mel. It was "news" to me I don't look around blogs all that much or even news sites every day. I read the Times on line of course.... Charlie
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Melissa CH.com Moderator CH.com Alumnus Offline Don't give up! Posts: 7238 Central WI, USA Gender:	Re: Fake Spyware popup Reply #5 - Oct 16^th, 2008 at 10:42pm Charlie, there are some really freaky blogs out there! I find them interesting though. Always neat to see through the eyes of another, but I gotta watch just how much I read of it though. Don't wanna become off balance, know what I mean?
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Reply #6 - Oct 16^th, 2008 at 10:59pm

Oh, I've seen some beauties too. When I first got on line I looked around to see how much I might make on all my German war collectibles. Looking into that brought me to a lot of Nazi, Klan and conspriacy lunatics. That I'm familiar with so many of them made it kinda fun.....but..... Whew. I "learned" a lot. What zoo! Some of the militia types and white supremacists that I know look like a Boy Scout camp meeting compared to the net. Stunning. Fun though.

Transvestite Taxidermist sites go only so far though.... Cool

Charlie

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superhawk2300 CH.com Hall of Famer Offline Posts: 901 New Berlin, WI Gender:	Re: Fake Spyware popup Reply #7 - Oct 17^th, 2008 at 12:04am If you are running XP, and system restore has been enabled you probably can restore your pc to a previous state that works in a few easy steps and only as few minutes of time. Start -> Help and Support ->Pick a Task -> Something about restoring your computer to a previous state. Anyday but today should work just fine
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Bob P CH.com Hall of Famer Offline Shut up Bob! Posts: 4573 Clio,California Gender:	Re: Fake Spyware popup Reply #8 - Oct 17^th, 2008 at 7:19am I picked some "AV2008" thing last week that sounds like what you may have. I ran a sweep with Spysweeper and it picked up the offending program and removed it.
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Melissa CH.com Moderator CH.com Alumnus Offline Don't give up! Posts: 7238 Central WI, USA Gender:	Re: Fake Spyware popup Reply #9 - Oct 17^th, 2008 at 9:30am Charlie wrote on Oct 16^th, 2008 at 10:59pm: Transvestite Taxidermist sites go only so far though.... Charlie REally? I thought there'd be more of them.
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Re: Fake Spyware popup
Reply #10 - Oct 17^th, 2008 at 9:46am

Charlie wrote on Oct 16^th, 2008 at 10:59pm:

Transvestite Taxidermist sites go only so far though.... Cool

OK, this belongs on another board, but you guys started it...

A taxidermist from Canada is travelling through rural Arkansas when he decides to stop in a local bar for a beer. The locals are very suspicious of outsiders, and one of them finally approaches the stranger.

"Hey, you ain't from around here, are ya?"

"No, I'm from Canada", the taxidermist replies.

"Canada? So, whaddaya do down there in Canada?"

"I'm a taxidermist."

"A taxi-dermist? What's a taxi-dermist?"

"We mount animals."

The local turns to his friends and announces, "It's OK fellers! He's one of us!"

Cheesy

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Jim
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Re: Fake Spyware popup
Reply #11 - Oct 17^th, 2008 at 6:34pm

superhawk2300 wrote on Oct 17^th, 2008 at 12:04am:

If you are running XP, and system restore has been enabled you probably can restore your pc to a previous state that works in a few easy steps and only as few minutes of time.

Start -> Help and Support ->Pick a Task -> Something about restoring your computer to a previous state.

Anyday but today should work just fine

I reset to: October 12, 2008 on my puter but it's still there. It's only been here since the 15th.

RATS!

Charlie

....... Thanks though but I need to try something else.

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Reply #12 - Oct 17^th, 2008 at 8:15pm

Bob P wrote on Oct 17^th, 2008 at 7:19am:

I picked some "AV2008" thing last week that sounds like what you may have. I ran a sweep with Spysweeper and it picked up the offending program and removed it.

Thanks Bob.

It is driving me nuts. I rescind my opposition to the death penalty for the creators of this thing. Angry

I can't afford to buy anything Bob. I tried some free stuff like Spybot and the like but from my searches, this thing is something out of my league. Here is one search about the thing. Let me know what you or anyone thinks.

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Help, anyone!

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Jonny Ex Member	Re: Fake Spyware popup Reply #13 - Oct 17^th, 2008 at 8:46pm Charlie, that link you posted is bullshit....scan and then want you to pay. I downloaded it to check and then deleted it. Lemme look around.
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Charlie CH.com Alumnus Offline Happy to be here Posts: 18971 Jamestown, NY Gender:	Re: Fake Spyware popup Reply #14 - Oct 17^th, 2008 at 9:02pm I saw that it was probably what you say I guess. Damn. This thing is old enough that someone must have found a fairly easy way to deal with it. I'm hoping to not have to call in one of my geek friends, one of whom I like pay a little for his help. Thanks, Jonny
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Melissa CH.com Moderator CH.com Alumnus Offline Don't give up! Posts: 7238 Central WI, USA Gender:	Re: Fake Spyware popup Reply #15 - Oct 17^th, 2008 at 9:38pm did you try spyware blaster? It's free and what I use... Multimedia File Viewing and Clickable Links are available for Registered Members only!! You need to or
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Jonny Ex Member	Re: Fake Spyware popup Reply #16 - Oct 17^th, 2008 at 9:52pm Ad-aware? Its free. Multimedia File Viewing and Clickable Links are available for Registered Members only!! You need to or or this Multimedia File Viewing and Clickable Links are available for Registered Members only!! You need to or
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Patrick_A CH.com Hall of Famer Offline If i could get my hands on that wascally Wabbit Posts: 867 Duncan, SC Gender:	Re: Fake Spyware popup Reply #17 - Oct 17^th, 2008 at 10:57pm I also was having numerous problems with my Browser. I always had been loyal to Internet Explorer, but I read here recently that it has been giving people fits and I was one of those. So I decided to try Mozilla Firefox and guess what....... No more problems! Patrick_A
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Re: Fake Spyware popup
Reply #18 - Oct 17^th, 2008 at 11:33pm

I've tried adaware just now but something is wrong. Something about no adress or something. The agreement looks strange in all caps. Something fishy about the thing and along side a blue box appears that says it's downloading something that looks like this:

xp antispyware 2000 installer

please wait downloading......

I'm wary of this thing.

I get a antispyware shield thing frequently that I haven't intentionally downloaded. I think I deleted this thing too.....shit.....I have no idea what I'm saying here. I'm familiar with this icon though but it's not around right now. I'm not good at this stuff.

Charlie

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Re: Fake Spyware popup
Reply #19 - Oct 18^th, 2008 at 12:22am

Charlie,
I use Mozilla Firefox as my browser.
I use Adblock Plus & have had no such problems as you describe.

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Adblock Plus
Adblock Plus focuses on usability with many new features being added. Its main window has menu items at the top. Also, the list of blockable items is integrated as a panel at the bottom which can be detached from the main window. Element hiding can be used in addition to regular ad blocking. Other new features include filter statistics (hits counter) and the ability to enable or disable individual filters without removing them.

How it works
Like Mozilla's built-in image blocker, Adblock blocks HTTP requests according to their source address and can block IFrames, scripts and Flash. It also uses automatically-generated user stylesheets to hide elements such as text ads on a page as they load instead of blocking them, known as element hiding.

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There are also a multitude of free pop up blockers available
on the internet.

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Reply #20 - Oct 18^th, 2008 at 8:40pm

Thanks KOP. I downloaded adaware successfully finally. Of course it didn't stop this thing. I've been using spybot for a long time as well. A lot things were found by adaware but I can't find a way to do anything once found. Spybot does ask me what to do. At least I have adaware now.

On downloading. One of the first things that this thing does is to try to get me to dowload what must be fake anti-spyware thing.

Thanks guys. It looks like no matter what I do, this thing sticks.

Charlie

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Reply #21 - Oct 18^th, 2008 at 8:57pm

Oddly enough Spybot actually has sypware in ut. Nothing malicious but it is ironic. Remember folks, nothing is free.

Charles, can you restore to a point MUCH further back. There is a good chance you caught this well before it became active.

My dad had the exact same thing and restoring fixed it.

Lemme know if not and I'll try to dig something up for you or maybe make a disk that will run automatically I can send you in the mail.

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Charlie CH.com Alumnus Offline Happy to be here Posts: 18971 Jamestown, NY Gender:	Re: Fake Spyware popup Reply #22 - Oct 18^th, 2008 at 9:35pm Thanks. I reset my puter back a few days yesterday but to no avail. Are you saying that I should go way back in time? Just so you people know exactly what I'm stuck with, here is a link that describes it exactly: Multimedia File Viewing and Clickable Links are available for Registered Members only!! You need to or Charlie
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Re: Fake Spyware popup
Reply #23 - Oct 18^th, 2008 at 11:39pm

The Zlob Trojan seems to be pretty hectic. I got rid of mine from an updating Spybot (opening Spybot and clicking the update tab and updating everything) and running a boot scan (scans the computer before Windows is loaded). From what I've read, this Trojan is changing basically every day so making sure Spybot is completely updated is really important. I'd recommend checking again if you did already update to see if they might have added an even newer one to get your variant.

You can try doing an Avast boot scan. Multimedia File Viewing and Clickable Links are available for Registered Members only!! You need to

Click on the Resistration first and fill out the information to have them email you the code to register it (it's free). Make sure after downloading it you update it so it's looking for the newest version of the Trojan.

If that doesn't work, watch this YouTube video Multimedia File Viewing and Clickable Links are available for Registered Members only!! You need to

It shows you how to delete the files, has a text companion Multimedia File Viewing and Clickable Links are available for Registered Members only!! You need to

for the files and registry entries needed to be deleted.

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Melissa CH.com Moderator CH.com Alumnus Offline Don't give up! Posts: 7238 Central WI, USA Gender:	Re: Fake Spyware popup Reply #24 - Oct 18^th, 2008 at 11:55pm Audre, Charlie's on dial-up. It'd take him forever to d/l a clip.
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