I've found a few times when looking at threads that an unexpected page opens - ie just now a page advertising Pontiacs for sale opened without having clicked on anything. WTF?

This has happened at home and at work and I'm a little baffled.

So, is it me being a clutz or is something odd happening here?

cheers

Ben

 

not had this happen at all - is it specific threads you could point it down to?

 

today's wierdness happened on the main UK owners forum page, whereas a previous one happened in that scary thread about the near miss and that opened a page about bolt-on spoliers for Clios, etc.

bloody odd

 

Its a type of virus (not harmfull) but iritating, adaware will sort it for you although if i remember rightly i had to run it in save mode

 

Download AdAware SE from Lavasoft, install it and run it. You have spyware on your computer and AdAware will clean it. It is like a virus and how harmful it is depends on your point of view!

It's an insidious bit of software that has been installed without your knowing from some website you visited at sometime that is watching everything you do and reporting it back to a central computer. It's obviously watching which pages you are viewing and then popping up ads based on the content it sees. I'm not sure that the spyware you are infected with is a security threat or not but it could easily be. It can record everything you enter into your browser including your online banking passwords or anything else you type or view.

Get rid of Internet Explorer ASAP! The whole program is one big security flaw. Download FireFox and use that instead. Do not use IE unless you have no choice! I'll save my comments about Windows in general for another time but at least lose IE as fast as you can.

http://www.mozilla.org/ to download FireFox. Do it!

FYI: We don't use any sort of pop-up, pop-under, spyware or ad tracking cookies. We don't use um nor do we install them on your computer. Never have, never will. If you have spyware on your computer it didn't come from us!

 

Ad-Aware is indeed one handy tool. Here's some links to some more essentials...

Ad-Aware SE Personal
http://www.lavasoft.com/

Spybot-Search & Destroy
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html

SpywareBlaster
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html

SpywareGuard
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareguard.html

HijackThis
http://castlecops.com/downloads-file-328.html

You can post a HijackThis log here and ask for help...
http://castlecops.com/forum67.html

Free online Virus scans

http://housecall.trendmicro.com/hous...start_corp.asp
http://www.pandasoftware.com/activescan/
http://www.kaspersky.com/scanforvirus

More tools..
http://castlecops.com/downloads.html

 

Or of course you could just get a Mac :flamesuitON:

 

 

Thanks for all the help - bit worrying if its got through all of my work's firewalls, etc!

(i know my home system is riddled with bad news!)

Cheers

Ben