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After having logged on (I've Broadband so am automatically connected to the
Internet) this irksome triangle with an exclamation mark inside appears on my
taskbar. Whne I click on it I get a list of urls advertising in the main porn
and dating sites.

I'm sure it has something to do with viruses, hijackers, etc but I have
tried everything to get rid of it but to no avail. Can anyone help?
 
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On Fri, 24 Jun 2005 03:08:01 -0700, nairevilo wrote:

> After having logged on (I've Broadband so am automatically connected to the
> Internet) this irksome triangle with an exclamation mark inside appears on my
> taskbar. Whne I click on it I get a list of urls advertising in the main porn
> and dating sites.
>
> I'm sure it has something to do with viruses, hijackers, etc but I have
> tried everything to get rid of it but to no avail. Can anyone help?

Try the steps outlined at http://www.aumha.org/a/quickfix.htm.
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MS-MVP Windows
http://support.telop.org

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What Security tools do you have running on your computer ?
By that I mean which Anti-Virus & Firewall - which provide
Real Time protection. Also, you need a cocktail of Malware
tools that includes AdAware, SpyBot, CW Shredder and the
Microsoft AntiSpyware application.
It's a process that uses a number of different approaches. 1st
you have to rid your machine of any "Baddies" already present.
Then you have to harden the security, to prevent re-infestation.
Using TaskMgr, you can isolate the process that is responsible
for the icon you describe. There are a few on-line scans that
might help you to "Catch" your particular "Baddie".
If you're using Broadband you can adjust IE (assumption) to
empty the TIF cache when each IE session is completed. I
would also override the default Cookie handling. As a starting
point, I would run Panda's Activescan. It does a good job of
finding viruses and "Baddies" that some other AV/Scanners
tend to miss. It requires a ActiveX component and a User ID
process to access the Scan.
http://www.pandasoftware.com/activescan/

"nairevilo" <nairevilo@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> After having logged on (I've Broadband so am automatically connected to
> the
> Internet) this irksome triangle with an exclamation mark inside appears on
> my
> taskbar. Whne I click on it I get a list of urls advertising in the main
> porn
> and dating sites.
>
> I'm sure it has something to do with viruses, hijackers, etc but I have
> tried everything to get rid of it but to no avail. Can anyone help?
>
 
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Hi

Have you tried all these programs to check your system for spyware?

Ad-Aware - www.lavasoftusa.com
Spybot - http://www.safer-networking.or­g/
CWShredder - http://forum.aumha.org/downloa­ds/cwshredder.zip
Spy Sweeper - www.webroot.com

Try SpyWareBlaster to stop intrusions:

http://www.javacoolsoftware.co­m/spywareblaster.html

Also see the following links:

http://aumha.org/a/parasite.ht­m
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/un­wanted.htm

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Will Denny
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
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"nairevilo" <nairevilo@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:35578F62-DBEC-4146-A2A3-37618D6A234F@microsoft.com...
> After having logged on (I've Broadband so am automatically connected to
> the
> Internet) this irksome triangle with an exclamation mark inside appears on
> my
> taskbar. Whne I click on it I get a list of urls advertising in the main
> porn
> and dating sites.
>
> I'm sure it has something to do with viruses, hijackers, etc but I have
> tried everything to get rid of it but to no avail. Can anyone help?
>
 
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Thanks for your replies...

I have Norton Anti-virus software and Personal Firewall running. I also run
Spybot and Ad Aware - but these are not getting rid of this irritating
triangle. If it goes on much longer I might have to do a full system restore
from the start-up disk - it's that s


"Will Denny" wrote:

> Hi
>
> Have you tried all these programs to check your system for spyware?
>
> Ad-Aware - www.lavasoftusa.com
> Spybot - http://www.safer-networking.or­g/
> CWShredder - http://forum.aumha.org/downloa­ds/cwshredder.zip
> Spy Sweeper - www.webroot.com
>
> Try SpyWareBlaster to stop intrusions:
>
> http://www.javacoolsoftware.co­m/spywareblaster.html
>
> Also see the following links:
>
> http://aumha.org/a/parasite.ht­m
> http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/un­wanted.htm
>
> --
>
> Will Denny
> MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
> Please reply to the News Groups
>
>
> "nairevilo" <nairevilo@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:35578F62-DBEC-4146-A2A3-37618D6A234F@microsoft.com...
> > After having logged on (I've Broadband so am automatically connected to
> > the
> > Internet) this irksome triangle with an exclamation mark inside appears on
> > my
> > taskbar. Whne I click on it I get a list of urls advertising in the main
> > porn
> > and dating sites.
> >
> > I'm sure it has something to do with viruses, hijackers, etc but I have
> > tried everything to get rid of it but to no avail. Can anyone help?
> >
>
>
>
 
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what is that "everything" you have done thus far? have you scanned your
computer with several spyware scanners like microsoft antispyware, spybot
and ad-aware? scanning with only one scanner is not enough. none of
available scanners detects all nasties. i assume you have also up-to-date
virus scanners. last thing to do is to use hijackthis and post report to
newsgroups where specialists analyze it. use google with "hijackthis" to get
some links to start with.


"nairevilo" <nairevilo@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:35578F62-DBEC-4146-A2A3-37618D6A234F@microsoft.com...
> After having logged on (I've Broadband so am automatically connected to
> the
> Internet) this irksome triangle with an exclamation mark inside appears on
> my
> taskbar. Whne I click on it I get a list of urls advertising in the main
> porn
> and dating sites.
>
> I'm sure it has something to do with viruses, hijackers, etc but I have
> tried everything to get rid of it but to no avail. Can anyone help?
>
 
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"Bob Vanderveen" <bvanderveen@mail.co> wrote in message
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>
> "Will Denny" <willdenny@mvps.org> wrote in message
> news:eZH2VXKeFHA.2664@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
>> Hi
>>
> <snip>
>
>> http://aumha.org/a/parasite.ht­m
>> http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/un­wanted.htm
>>
> Both these links give 404. It could just be my dns, but try these:
> http://www.aumha.org/a/parasite.htm
> http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm
>
> Bob Vanderveen

Hi

Both those links are working properly from here.


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"Will Denny" <willdenny@mvps.org> wrote in message
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>
> >> http://aumha.org/a/parasite.ht­m
> >> http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/un­wanted.htm
> >>
> > Both these links give 404. It could just be my dns, but try
these:
> > http://www.aumha.org/a/parasite.htm
> > http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm
> >
> > Bob Vanderveen
>
> Hi
>
> Both those links are working properly from here.

The things that make you say hmmmmm.....

Confession time<g>...I'm running treewalk (http://ntcanuck.com/ ) as
primary dns with roadrunner dns4 (65.24.0.172) as backup.

Your comments are welcome.

Bob Vanderveen
 
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