spybot and adaware are no help

[dantheman00114]

got a problem witht his one web dialer that keeps on popping up and wants me to close my current internet connection and connect to their porno website... ive run spybot S&D and adaware... they delete the files... but they just keep on coming back...

also... in IE, the homepage was changed to some thing called CoolWebSearch.. and i try to change it back but it wont let me...
again, spybot and adaware dont work...

i have HJT but im not sure what to do with it

[pre98zetec]

stop looking at porn

seriously, try this


http://www.pcpitstop.com/antivirus/AVLoad.asp

Or

http://housecall.trendmicro.com/

They are great sites, and have caught more stuff then adaware and spybot could, also get spysweeper, mainly because it warns you of any programs running in the background that are not suppose to be running.

[dantheman00114]

ok dont blame me, blame my brother

[MBTN]

Something is still loading the program at startup. use the run command "msconfig" and remove it (do this all in safe mode). If it's not there, you may have to go hunting in the registry.

[Plastic_Fork]

Sounds like a browser hijack program. Those suck. There's a program called Hijack This which should help remove it. Also check your Internet Options in your Control Panel and clikc on the Connections tab and make sure there aren't any unwanted dialers in there. Those hijack programs have a tendancy to create dialers with their settings. You can see all the dialers you have in your system in Internet Options.

[PossibleSideEffect]

Have you updated the definitions for Spybot and ad-aware?

[JackGivens]

Originally Posted by PossibleSideEffect

Have you updated the definitions for Spybot and ad-aware?

I was wondering the same thing b.c I have seen that www.coolwebsearch thing get picked up by AdAware. I ran it yesterday actually and it got picked up, so adding the new definitions should take care of it.

[Psman32@af]

also to prevent this in the future dont use internet explorer, instead use a browser liek firefox's. its what i use. after a fresh install of xp due to new hardware, i had no spyware on my comptuer. the onlything foudn was cookies that get there no matter what.

[PossibleSideEffect]

Originally Posted by Psman32@af

also to prevent this in the future dont use internet explorer, instead use a browser liek firefox's. its what i use. after a fresh install of xp due to new hardware, i had no spyware on my comptuer. the onlything foudn was cookies that get there no matter what.

Opera all the way, baby!!

[Psman32@af]

i havent used opera yet. i should try that. i didnt even start using firerox till 2-3 months ago. I should try that. ill look into that later. if i remember.

[PossibleSideEffect]

The big problem with Opera, though, is that it's not free.
There is a free version, but you will have a banner ad at the top. It's pretty non-intrusive though. I've even had some decent ads come up that's I've actually clicked on.