I need a good adware remover, im getting freakin' popups everytime iload a website and its doing ym head in. Ive tryed a spyware scanner, and deleted all the spyware but its STILL doing it, and its VERY annoying. Thanks!
not to sound arragont or anything but can i draw your attention to This Thread about 10 topics from the top. and mainley This Post all can be found on www.downlaod.com EDIT: Adaware and Spybot http://www.lavasoftusa.com/ & http://security.kolla.de/ http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox note i havent tryed firefox altho i may do that. as everyone seems to say it reduces popups and spyware
orrrrrrrrrrrrr you could use mozilla rather than internet explorer. I tried getting rid of my popups but it didnt work so i went for mozilla.
Been thru adaware . Xclean and spybot this morning and none of them completly cleaned the PC, (clients pc running win98 IE5.5) but adaware is still my fave, worth checking windows update for all the latest patches too... and running a full virus scan just to be on the safe side.... thouw in a disk defrag and you'll have a pc good as new hopefully, Then install firefox and enjoy....
A couple of other things you can try in opening the wininit.ini file in the C:\Windows\System or C:\Windows\System32 folders. Look for any lines that begin with [NUL]=unusual filename. Delete those out of the file and restart windows. Also download CoolWeb Shredder and running that. Then I would also run Windows Update, and maybe a Detect and Repair on Internet Explorer from the Add & Remove Programs applet in Control Panel
I have use Spybot and Adaware extensively (read several times a week on customers PCs). I have performed a little test several times with the same result. Run Spybot - remove spyware......run Adware and it will find MORE spyware. Never fails Spybot will leave something behind. Run Adaware - remove spyware.......run Spybot and so far it has never found anymore spyware. Conclusion is that Adaware is the better of the two - atleast use them BOTH if you have doubts.
If you install Spybot after Adaware it actually tells you adaware finds the leavings of Spybot no matter what because it always keeps backups.