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adverts on my computer 23 January 2008, 7:17 PM

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adverts on my computer 28 January 2008, 3:03 PM

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adverts on my computer 28 January 2008, 6:32 PM

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adverts on my computer 29 January 2008, 2:50 AM

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adverts on my computer 30 January 2008, 2:45 AM

mike89 Joined 7 Dec 2007 17 posts

second if you are using internet explorer, you should switch to firefox (Firefox suffers less from popups and scripts)

adverts on my computer 30 January 2008, 12:19 PM

greyhound Joined 10 Dec 2007 1 posts

DELETE THE COOKIE, IF YOU CANNOT DELETE THE COOKIE THEN YOU CAN DELETE THE ENTRY IN REGEDIT, BE CAREFULL WHEN DELETEING IN REGEDIT, GO TO START RUN AND TYPE IN REGEDIT, GO TO EDIT AND SEARCH NEXT, WHATEVER YOU WANT TO DELETE, SAY FACEBOOK, IN THE SEARCH BOX PUT IN FACEBOOK AND SEARCH, WHEN SEARCH FINDS FACEBOOK DOUBLE CLICK AND DELETE, HIT F3 AGAIN TO SEARCH AND DELETE OK, BE CAREFULL.

adverts on my computer 2 February 2008, 9:21 PM

Pete Joined 25 Jan 2008 3 posts

First of all, you need to get rid of anything Norton related, the box it came in is more useful than the software. you'll find that your system might run a little better too. Use AVG free instead (google it), and stay away from spybot as was recommended by someone else, thats just as bad, and potentially spyware on its own. If you can get your system into 'safe mode' (hold down F8 whilst windows is booting), run the suggested regedit scans from there, and then get hold of firefox.

adverts on my computer 3 February 2008, 1:28 AM

mike89 Joined 7 Dec 2007 17 posts

adverts on my computer 3 February 2008, 12:03 PM   Edited by Pete 3 February 2008, 12:40 PM

Pete Joined 25 Jan 2008 3 posts

"When installed on a PC, Spybot opens a back door in the system and connects to an internet relay chat (IRC) server to let the remote attacker control the compromised computer. Spybot first surfaced in 2003 and has spawned many offshoots.

Bot software such as Spybot is the most prevalent threat to Windows PCs, according to a recent Microsoft security report. More than 43,000 new variants of such insidious programs were found in the first half of 2006, making it the most active category of malicious software, Microsoft said."

adverts on my computer 4 February 2008, 5:57 PM

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adverts on my computer 4 February 2008, 7:12 PM   Edited by Pete 4 February 2008, 7:13 PM

Pete Joined 25 Jan 2008 3 posts

Idle curiosity got the better of me, so I signed up to see if I got the same thing. nothing yet, but I'll keep tabs and update you. I googled "facebook virus" and got some interesting results. Try it.

It's all new to me, facebook isn't really my thing but I have some concerns with any website that can gain access, authorised or not, to my contacts list. Just don't click anything that seems like an unusual request.

Pete

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