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Mon 27 Dec, 2004 07:30 pm
Over the last few days, I've had strange pop-ups appear when I'm browsing A2K. The most common one says (paraphrasing) that A2K has scnned my system, found 12 nasties, and recommends I download a particular mal-ware scanner and run it. I'm 99.9% certain that this is NOT an official A2K message. It appears maybe like a Flash window - with just a grey X floating above the top-right corner to close, black background, green text and using the default Internet Explorer font, rather than the usual A2K font.
Has anyone seen the same thing, or can anyone (CdK, Jespah etc) confirm if this is indeed a pop-up from A2K or not? I reckon not, but wanted clarification.
I have SpywareGuard, SpywareBlaster, Spybot S&D (& Resident) and Ad-Aware all running, scanning and with the latest definition libraries, and nothing has been found. Running Windows 98.
Right. The little bugger appeared again and I clicked to see what happened. It appears that this pop-up has come from our old friends at HereToFind. Just a warning then to anyone else who gets the message that it's probably suspect and should be ignored.
Does anyone have any ideas how to stop it appearing in the first place?
I can confirm for you that it is not being generated by A2K.
Two possibilities are that 1) you have malicious software on your machine which is generating the popup, or 2) an ad here is generating it.
Based on what you've described, it's
far more likely that it's something installed on your PC. (For the record, though, if it was from an ad it would be dropped from rotation as soon as its source could be determined.)
For help with removing spyware, etc., check here:
www.able2know.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=21110
And here:
www.able2know.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=37026
Many thanks, Monger. I'm going to add Stinger and CWShredder to my arsenal, clean-up as much as I can then post my HJT log.
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