julie_scarborough

Serena

Administrator
Julie, I see by all your posts you're back.
Good to see you again. :)

You mentioned in another thread you were having a problem with the pop-up/worms? I've had the same nightmare of a problem for two days. It was taking over my computer, redirecting it, freezing it up.

After running the Norton Antivirus and the Ad-Aware programs, I came to the conclusion--later verified by someone who works on computers who reported several hundred people in this area alone had been infected--that it was not a virus, but a pop-up pirate.

After spending hours and hours on this, I believe I finally found the culprits and uninstalled their programs--several of them that Ad-Aware indicated would not let them delete.

If you haven't solved the problem and would like to know what I found and did, I'd be glad to help. Just let me know.

For the first time in two days, I seem to be spyware-free and pop-up free, so hopefully I stumbled across the solution. It's certainly not because I know what I'm doing. ;) :D
 

Administrator

Administrator
Staff member
kat_whit said:
Julie wanted me to tell all of you she
will be offline at least a few days.
Her computer crashed. She says she
is already missing the forum, hopefully
she will be back soon :) hugs&love, kat

Yes peace at last. :D

































Just kidding. :D Hope you've got your computer fixed now.

Craig
 

yudansha

TheGreatOne
How far? :=))

Serena: "later verified by someone who works on computers who reported several hundred people in this area alone had been infected"

How big of an area? ... just wondering how long it'll take 'till it spreads to here :D
 

Serena

Administrator
yudansha said:
Serena: "later verified by someone who works on computers who reported several hundred people in this area alone had been infected"

How big of an area? ... just wondering how long it'll take 'till it spreads to here :D

Well, he himself had received about 250 calls in two days, he told my brother. No telling how many others have been infected.

But, knock on wood, I guess I was successfully able to uninstall the three major culprits, which had a bunch of baby culprits, that Ad-Aware said it couldn't delete. After two days of hourly freezing and locking up, I've been free of any problems at all for about 10 hours now.
 

katw_03

New Member
yudansha said:
Serena: "later verified by someone who works on computers who reported several hundred people in this area alone had been infected"

How big of an area? ... just wondering how long it'll take 'till it spreads to here :D

I'm from Arkansas & I have had the same problems,
fixed them, though....
 

yudansha

TheGreatOne
Just got it fixed:

My Ad-Aware found more than 10 files linked to spy-ware (and removed them all) ... yada yada yada, my PC is free of spies (or so it makes me think that way ... for now).
 

katw_03

New Member
message from julie

Hey, you all have a good time in chat Friday! :)
You going to miss me? Well, don't have too much
fun while I have gone to Maine! :) I know how
wild everyone likes to get :D I'll talk to everyone
on Monday. You all will be in my thoughts & prayers,
especially you Storm! Julie
 

Storm

Smile dammit!
Poor old Julie. Amos pass that hammer will you? I've stopped a fair few viruses recently,anthrax,rubella,bubonic plague,lol.:D
Without antivirus and spyware removal progs like Ad aware to remove it you are up the creek,no paddle...
 

katw_03

New Member
No Guys

That was a message from JULIE, relayed to the board
by ME :D I know my post was confusing(as I confuse myself):rolleyes:
It is Julie going to Maine! I will be in chat tonight :D
 

Amos Stevens

New Member
Sorry to hear she's having so much computer troubles-tell her to use a giant vacuum & just clear out anything that looks out of place in the monitor :)
 
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