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Alright.... I am not happy, lately I noticed my broswer (IE7) Crashing, programs I dont even know about popping up crashing and such, so I finally managed to get ad-aware to update today and scanned, a crap load of results... I have also been having random adds pop up outside of IE as well... So when done, Restarted, let it do it again got rid of everything right? Nope.... Still Those bloody random pop ups. Any ideas?

Gunny (I'm too lazy to search google today)

Along with Ad-Aware, get SpyBot S&D and SpywareBlaster. Check what's running in the background. Look for programs with unusual titles, such as random strings of letters &/or numbers. Some freeware programs generate ramdom pop-up ads.

Thanks, Will do tomorrow... I ran procexp and I dont see anything thats not supposed to be running but I will run those other scans when I get up tomorrow

Gunny

EDIT: Looks like I have a make MS thing running wonder what it is, I killed it (it didnt appear to be MS because it wasnt with all the other MS stuff) and I didn't loose anything... maybe its the problem... will look into it more later!

There are many spyware/viruses that name themselves after Microsoft programs. Process Explorer will tell you if it MS and not, or you could track down the exe.

Get Opera, you won't even need a virus scanner after you get it..... Trust me.

Thats how I found them..... and shut them off cheesegrater nice little program!

Cheers, Gunny