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Painbringer · May 12, 2008, 01:39 PM // 13:39

Pop up problems

Ok not sure if you guys can help me. My system worked fine until…. Saturday morning I opened GW guru to check some threads. I pulled open the main page which seems to have errors. Still does right now?? Not sure if others are seeing the errors or not. I tried to blindly click to get to the forums, and from then on I have been getting unwanted web pages popping up on my computer. It has been bogging my system down to a crawl. I have a pop up blocker set to medium. And also run Norton antivirus. I install updates pretty regularly, and ran system scans instantly to check for viruses. The scans came back clean. I called my provider and they basically told me to delete my browsing history and cookies. Which I have done. Since then I still get them popping up but not as bad. And at least now they are not the really bad ones that my 3 year old should not see. Any suggestions on what to do? Set the popup to block all? Help

zamial · May 12, 2008, 02:55 PM // 14:55

I also get pop-ups from guru, UNTIL I log in, then they mysteriously stop. They need to make money???? Also I would run anti-spyware and adware programs. the 1's I use that are free are: spybot s&d and adaware se. Another good free software is ccleaner. Running all 3 of these until there are no issues found should resolve the bogging.

Felixious · May 12, 2008, 02:58 PM // 14:58

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Originally Posted by zamial

They need to make money????

Unfortunatley, we don't live in some rainbow world where hosting forums is free.

Inde · May 12, 2008, 03:17 PM // 15:17

All right, the front page problem is from a javascript error and is only on IE users. The google ad server is trying to call a function that isn't there. IE just stops the page from loading, Firefox goes ahead and continues to render the rest of the page. And thank you for the heads up on the pop-ups Painbringer, it's something that we have been investigating for a while and trying to track down.

Painbringer · May 13, 2008, 01:20 PM // 13:20

Well Norton finally caught the problem. I had a Trojan Virus. I am assuming this is what was causing the popup problem. I cleaned the virus off my system. Set the popup blocker to full. Performance has increased on the computer. Didn’t have to much time to test it out to say it is 100% clear, but I will next time I am on. The funny thing is I ran 2 full system scans and at least 4 quick scans from Norton over the last two days and not once did it catch the problem. While surfing last night the Norton Status window popped up out of nowhere and said it found a virus. In the back of my mind I really thought I had something the hard drive was working way too hard for just surfing the internet.

Tarun · May 13, 2008, 03:32 PM // 15:32

You should definitely get away from Norton.

For AV: avast
For a firewall: Comodo Pro

tijo · May 13, 2008, 04:41 PM // 16:41

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Originally Posted by Tarun

You should definitely get away from Norton.

For AV: avast
For a firewall: Comodo Pro

QFT

AVG is another free AV.

If you don't mind paying for an anti-virus, Kaspersky and NOD32 are good ones too

Tarun · May 13, 2008, 09:21 PM // 21:21

Unfortunately AVG 8 has gotten a bit on the bloated side from what I've heard (I mean it is a ~50MB install).

Snograt · May 13, 2008, 11:45 PM // 23:45

True, but still a viable alternative for those of us with silly amounts of storage

Painbringer · May 15, 2008, 03:15 PM // 15:15

Norton Caught this Vundo Trojan again last night WTF? I removed it earlier this week. 2 x in a week same one?

zamial · May 15, 2008, 05:03 PM // 17:03

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Originally Posted by Painbringer

Norton Caught this Vundo Trojan again last night WTF? I removed it earlier this week. 2 x in a week same one?

Not to jump in but if it is a self-replecter, Those love to hide in your system restore files and rewrite themselves in. I suggest booting up in safe mode, disabling system restore or better yet deleting it, then run your AV and kill the bugger all in safe mode.