Suggestions for ridding myself of some malware

While researching the movie "Stick It" to see if my children should
watch it, I ran a foul of some (I guess it is called) Mal Ware.
What is did was change my home page which I was able to reset most
easily (unlike the time I had to edit my reg setting to fix) but now
whenever I open a web site, I get two or three other windows opening.
One is for "E-Bay" and the other two vary.

I ran A squared and it deleted some stuff but didn't fix the problem.
I found some stuff that was running and killed the process, found some
DIRs that shouldn't have been and deleted them but still no luck.

Can someone suggest a free program or a trial program that could fix
this? If I have to pay I will, so what would be the best program for
my $.

Your help is most appreciated.
Steve S.

 

I've found Adware and Spybot both pretty good. They're both free and both
should be run one after the other as they find different things. I've had
better luck with Spysweeper (which cost $). Today's computing requires
security beyond an anti-virus program.

 

Adaware SE and if your browser is highjacked then ' Highjackthis.exe ' also

 

That's AdAware:

http://lavasoft.de/software/adaware/

(also not the same as Ada-ware, which I thought was spyware playing on
the name...)

You can also opt to not us the security nightmare that is Internet
Explorer and stop approving all sorts of shit for download and automatic
install...!!!!


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Hi Steve
This is mainly a hardware group, but everybody sympathises with what
happened to you here.
Like the others said, run Adaware etc, perhaps also a registry cleaner
afterwords.
As Internet Explorer is integrated witht he Windows OS, it is quite
difficult to manage.

You really should consider using the Firefox or Opera browser instead of
IE. They give you much better control. If something happens that you
don't like and can't fix, you can always uninstall, clean the -registry
and re-install.The problem will be gone.
Your browser cannot be hi-jacked or abused as easily at all with these
browsers.

Firefox is completely superior to IE as a browser. The experience is
much nicer, particularly using tabbed browsing and some of the very
useful plugins. You are in charge, not Microsoft.. Also as anybody knows
who has done CSS development for the web - IE is chocabloc full of bugs!

Also be suspicious when you are online - Generally, anything that you
didn't ask for is bad. Avoid clicking any buttons or anything else in
popups and similar. Just close the popup with the Windows close button
in the right hand corner.

One more thing: you appear to have used your real email address and name
in the group. This may not be such a good thing: Any real email address
found on newsgroup is automatically collected by spam email harvesters.
Using your real email in a newsgroup just once will mean spam for YEARS.
(trust me, I know.. :-( I accidentally used it once. )

If you use your real name when posting, assuming it is reasonably
uncommon, people can search for your name and find the postings that
you made to newsgroups. Even though your usage is completely above the
water, you may still may not want others to find out what you say in
newsgroups - particularly people who run your name through Google for
whatever reason. Potential employers, nosy friends, boyfriends, family
and bored collegues. So be careful with this as well.
I am sure you'll be able to fix this problem. Good luck.
Best
Jo






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