Adware threats

[lancelot]

Ok, my anti-virus (norton) can find virus threats but it cant seem to delete any adware threats that have managed to sneek in.

Could anyone direct me to a program (if any) that can track these puppies down and ACTUALLY do something about it.

Coz at the mo, my anti virus doesnt do squat once its found a problem

Mnay thanks in advance.

[Ludens]

Ad-aware from Lavasoft, you can find it on this site: Lavasoft (http://www.lavasoft.de). There is also Spybot from Safer-Networking: Safer-Networking (http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html). I use both since neither offers complete protection. I understand that if you use both, you are safe from most ad-aware threaths.

[Steppe Merc]

I've been having the same problem. When it finds it, and didn't delete it, I went to the website and it gave me step by step instructions to kill them all.

[Quid]

Try AntiVir version 6 (http://www.free-av.com/). It found all sorts of stuff on my pc that Norten didn't even detect. It also got rid of it. As to other programmes...Ludens said it all.

Quid

[Beirut]

Is there any way can take revenge on the companies who unleash these adware and spyware attacks on us?

There must be something we can do to share the misery. :tomato:

[Degtyarev14.5]

Well, look, I don't have any programming abilities, whether we're talking HTML, C++, PERL or Assembly, but may I point you towards what I found to be an extremely interesting website:

[removed]

Skim down to the heading, "The 'Site busting' Lab".

This website has been frozen (i.e. not updated) since 1999, so of course it is now grossly out of date, but a lot of the information contained therein is useful, even if only as a starting point. Also note that his is a very biased opinion...

I found this site in 2001, at which point I started down the Dark Path. ~;)

A.

Edit: Sorry, I realize you're just trying to help, but: Org policy prohibits linking to sites promoting or providing piracy schemes, cracks, warez, etc. I took out your link. ~KukriKhan

[son of spam]

[removed] is an okay site, but I don't know if that's what AC posted or what. Regardless, I see very few warez but lots of fun stuff to do to spammers in there ;)

You're right: lots of great stuff in there. Sadly, bottom of the page has info & links to CD/DVD/eBooks cracks. Referrals to such sites should be done via email, PM, ICQ, etc, instead of this publicly-viewed forum. Thanks for understanding

[ah_dut]

well people, i have found that spysweeper does a thourough job at cleaning out the evil spyware, i understand spyhunter and aluria's spyware eliminator are pretty good.

[son of spam]

[removed] is an okay site, but I don't know if that's what AC posted or what. Regardless, I see very few warez but lots of fun stuff to do to spammers in there ;)

You're right: lots of great stuff in there. Sadly, bottom of the page has info & links to CD/DVD/eBooks cracks. Referrals to such sites should be done via email, PM, ICQ, etc, instead of this publicly-viewed forum. Thanks for understanding

no problem, didn't check all the ads at the bottom. my fault.

Back on topic: "Hijack this" is great for removing annoying homepage/autosearch hijackers. I've also found that manual removal gives a great sense of accomplishment...but maybe that's just me ~:wacko: