The Spyware War
May. 25th, 2005 02:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
captain_slinkyI have one particular bit of spyware on my computer that is particularly nasty. Spybot, Adaware, and a fistfull of other Spyware Removal Programs can't even find it. It's not in my start-up programs, it's not in my running processes. But for some reason, occasionally (and sporadically) I'll get a trio of pop-ups out of nowhere. Mild fare, too... 888poker.com, Refinance Mortgage, etc. The *oddest* thing about it is that even though I am using Firefox, the pop-ups pop up in IE. And weirder than that? I have completely uninstalled Internet Explorer (or so I had thought)!!! No rhyme or reason as to when or why the pop-ups come, they just do.
My latest victory in this battle has been that when these pop-ups *do* find their way in, IE performs an illegal opperation and needs to be shut down (makes sense, considering that IE isn't on this computer), so I never actually SEE the pop-ups any more, but they do take an awfully big bite out of my resources till they error out.
My latest victory in this battle has been that when these pop-ups *do* find their way in, IE performs an illegal opperation and needs to be shut down (makes sense, considering that IE isn't on this computer), so I never actually SEE the pop-ups any more, but they do take an awfully big bite out of my resources till they error out.
