Tech worst spyware attack ever

worst spyware attack ever

wadup, spyware has invaded my pc it took over internet explorer im using firefox which works fine but every 2-3 minutes i get a "microsoft network information" popup saying things like "baccarat?" "tramadol?" and when i close them they send me to easy-search.biz and no matter what website i go to i get redirected there....

canm ne of you tech heads gimme a hand?

ehh, either reinstall windows and delete everything or get a new HD

Can you check whats running and just go delete it manually?

this is what i do when i get one small thing of spyware. the instant i find it, i roll back my windows xp to the day before because i usually find out the instant it happens. if i dont know when it seems that i got it, i got an assortment of programs that will help me get rid of it: pestpatrol, adaware, and spybot.

For most things, Ad-Aware, Spybot, and even Microsoft's Antispyware programs are sufficient. If you know what you're doing, use Sysinternals tools (www.sysinternals.com) like process explorer to kill all the suspicious processes, autoruns to remove them from startup, and hijack this to get rid of any BHO's (browser hijacks), then run ad-aware to clean up the files.

If you're infected w/elitebar, (there's a new variant that's using rootkit technology to hide itself from the Windows API, aka there is no Windows scanning tool that will find and remove it for you), then you're definately SOL, unless you've got yourself a copy of BartPE, or ERD Commander laying around, and you know which files to delete.

well, the best way to get rid of it is to stop lookin at all that porn :jerkhit: :laugh2:

use the new microsoft anti spyware software thinggy its free and seems to find more than the other two big ones (spybot and ad-aware). or just switch to linux and you wont get any spyware at all.

ad-aware's gone to hell lately, since they've fired their cheif researcher cuz he was a college student. they only update like twice a month now, as opposed to the 3 times a week they used to update their definitions.

gentoo linux (stage 1 of course) all the way

I was on the programming bord for fedora core for a wile but my team split on me and left me to do the bulk of the programing. (wireless on linux is hard on the ol' noggin)