Pop-ups?

[EricNoah]

Yeah, I had those Windows Messenger pop-ups a while back -- they're totally unrelated to what site you're on, and in fact can pop up even when you're not browsing the web (if you have a connection that's "on" all the time). Do a google search on "windows messenger spam" to find out more. Here's one I found:

http://www.auburn.edu/oit/security/messengerService.html

 

[RangerWickett]

Not good. I downloaded the latest version of Ad-Aware, ran it, removed a bunch of files, and I again just got a pop-up ad when I opened Internet Explorer.

 

[EricNoah]

grab us a screenshot next time it happens if you can...

 

[Mark]

bLaCkSwAy RuLeS!

 

[Mathew_Freeman]

I had that freescratchandwin one, managed to get rid of it eventually. Sorry to hear about your popup problem, I hate them with a passion!

 

[Dungannon]

I had that freescratchandwin one, managed to get rid of it eventually. Sorry to hear about your popup problem, I hate them with a passion!

Anti-popup sentiments from an Outwars advocate? Is that even legal?

 

[RangerWickett]

Okay, it's happened a few more times, and I've been trying to see which processes on my computer might be responsible. I'm running Windows 98, and so I've been taking time Ctrl+Alt+Deleting to close everything but Explorer and Systray, and then seeing what happens whenever I open IE.

What does Rundll32 do? It's a process that turns on whenever I open IE.

 

[RangerWickett]

Oh, and what does Internat do?

 

[RangerWickett]

Okay, so it's probably not internat (whatever that is), because a pop up showed up after I closed down internat. So what's rundll32?

 

[Eternalknight]

Process File: rundll32 or rundll32.exe
Process Name: Windows RUNDLL32 Helper
Description: The Windows Rundll32 Program is used to run DLLs as programs and is used by many programs to execute functions located in a DLL file
Common Errors: N/A
System Process: No

May not help much, but I think you should leave it alone going off the above.