Popup Problem: System and Browser Poll

[Derf]

I use Win XP Pro both here and at home, along with Opera for my browser. It has a built-in pop-up blocker that works quite well. Also, since fewer people use it and it works a bit differently that IE, I don't have many problems with malware at all. I still have to use IE on occasion, but not often.

As for SP2, it works fine for most things, but I learned (after I had installed it) that it won't work with most music recording software/interfaces, which is my next big project. Luckily, my home computer dual boots into either XP Pro or Windows 98SE, so I should still be able to do some recording.

[Scottie]

Windows XP Pro -> Internet Explorer -> Pop Up Stopper professional


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[trekgeezer]

Hey Ash, if you do decide to load Service Pack 2, make sure you run something like adaware to make sure you don't have any spyware lurking on your machine. About the only problem we've had where I work is trying to install it on machines that were infected with spyware.

[Andrew]

I am off today, just finished up having drill weekend for the Reserve Marines.

Looked into this for some time now and I cannot replicate the problem with either of my systems.  That would be XP with Sp2 running both Mozilla and IE.  Nor does the older Win98 box do this, trying with either Mozilla or IE.  I must have reloaded various pages, mostly the message board, over 100 times with each browser.

Both of my computers run software firewalls and are located behind a hardware firewall.

I looked through all of the ads running on the site and cannot find anything that references the domain that Ash pointed out.

The funny thing here is that Mr. Hockstatter rebooted and stopped getting them, like it was a process running in memory, but not in the startup for the OS.  I wonder if this is some sort of worm that uses a flaw in IE to attempt to download further code to finish compromising the computer.  That would explain why Hockstatter stopped seeing it after a reboot.

Ash, try giving me a Hijack this log:

Download Hijack This from Major Geeks

It really does appear to be something affecting the computers in question, rather than coming from the site.