Hey,

I read a few things here, but they didnt help hence why I am posting here

I recently was a noob and opened a .exe file without scanning it (dumb me ) and it so far installed some stuff I didnt want.

It installed something in which I immediatly uninstalled in Add/Remove Programs (forgot the name tho)

I scanned my pc with Ad-Aware SE 1.6r1 Professional Edition and Spybot Search and Destroy, Panda Titanium Antivirus and Antispyware, Nod32 and around 10 other onlie scanners such as symantec virus check, Panda ActiveScan, housecall (or something like that ) etc...

They all removed spyware, adware and viruses like they are supposed to do....how ever one problem remains, I keep on getting Random Internet Explorer Popups

This started all when I was stupid and opened that dodgy exe

The scans did not fix it and I also rescanned in safe mode which did not help...as I still get popups coming at the most random times, I am surfing a site on FireFox, boom IE Popup about something, I am about to double click Minesweeper....boom IE Popup....it happens all the time when I dont expect it and its making me mad.

I just want to get rid of this problem

Can anybody help?
Thanks in Advance,
SonicSam

edit: just got a popup and the url was "http://www.cannis.org/?refid=wp_globe&link=ap"

hm...
i know its prolly not the best alternative, but i cant think of any other, do a system restore


http://www.cannis.org/?refid=wp_globe&link=ap
sounds to me like marihuana

you can always get hijackthis and remove suspicious stuff

Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1
Scan saved at 10:10:51 PM, on 06/05/2006
Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600)
MSIE: Internet Explorer v7.00 (7.00.5296.0000)

Running processes:
C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\winlogon.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe
C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\spoolsv.exe
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\VS7DEBUG\mdm.exe
C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Ulead Systems\DVD\ULCDRSvr.exe
C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Workstation\vmware-authd.exe
C:\Program Files\Common Files\VMware\VMware Virtual Image Editing\vmount2.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\vmnat.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\vmnetdhcp.exe
C:\WINDOWS\Explorer.EXE
C:\WINDOWS\system32\ctfmon.exe
C:\DOCUME~1\SONICS~1\APPLIC~1\WNSXS~1\javaw.exe
C:\Program Files\Linksys\WMP11 Config Utility\WMP11Cfg.exe
C:\Program Files\mIRC\mirc.exe
C:\Program Files\MSN Messenger\msnmsgr.exe
C:\Documents and Settings\SonicSamX\My Documents\s?stem32\w?auclt.exe
C:\PROGRA~1\MOZILL~1\FIREFOX.EXE
C:\Documents and Settings\SonicSamX\Desktop\hijackthis\HijackThis.exe

R1 - HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Default_Page_URL = http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=54729
R0 - HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Start Page = http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=55245&clcid={SUB_CLCID}
R3 - URLSearchHook: (no name) - _{CFBFAE00-17A6-11D0-99CB-00C04FD64497} - (no file)
O2 - BHO: Adobe PDF Reader Link Helper - {06849E9F-C8D7-4D59-B87D-784B7D6BE0B3} - C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 7.0\ActiveX\AcroIEHelper.dll
O2 - BHO: SSVHelper Class - {761497BB-D6F0-462C-B6EB-D4DAF1D92D43} - C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.5.0_06\bin\ssv.dll
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [UVS10 Preload] C:\Program Files\Ulead VideoStudio 10\uvPL.exe
O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [CTFMON.EXE] C:\WINDOWS\system32\ctfmon.exe
O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [MessengerPlus3] "C:\Program Files\MessengerPlus! 3\MsgPlus.exe" /WinStart
O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [msnmsgr] "C:\Program Files\MSN Messenger\msnmsgr.exe" /background
O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [Bess] "C:\DOCUME~1\SONICS~1\APPLIC~1\WNSXS~1\javaw.exe" -vt ndrv
O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [Dptmtl] C:\Documents and Settings\SonicSamX\My Documents\s?stem32\w?auclt.exe
O4 - Startup: Adobe Gamma.lnk = C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Calibration\Adobe Gamma Loader.exe
O4 - Global Startup: Wireless PCI Card Configuration Utility.lnk = C:\Program Files\Linksys\WMP11 Config Utility\WMP11Cfg.exe
O8 - Extra context menu item: E&xport to Microsoft Excel - res://C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~2\OFFICE12\EXCEL.EXE/3000
O9 - Extra button: (no name) - {08B0E5C0-4FCB-11CF-AAA5-00401C608501} - C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.5.0_06\bin\ssv.dll
O9 - Extra 'Tools' menuitem: Sun Java Console - {08B0E5C0-4FCB-11CF-AAA5-00401C608501} - C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.5.0_06\bin\ssv.dll
O9 - Extra button: Research - {92780B25-18CC-41C8-B9BE-3C9C571A8263} - C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~2\OFFICE11\REFIEBAR.DLL
O9 - Extra button: Messenger - {FB5F1910-F110-11d2-BB9E-00C04F795683} - C:\Program Files\Messenger\MSMSGS.EXE
O9 - Extra 'Tools' menuitem: Windows Messenger - {FB5F1910-F110-11d2-BB9E-00C04F795683} - C:\Program Files\Messenger\MSMSGS.EXE
O11 - Options group: [INTERNATIONAL] International*
O16 - DPF: {00B71CFB-6864-4346-A978-C0A14556272C} (Checkers Class) - http://messenger.zone.msn.com/binary/msgrchkr.cab31267.cab
O16 - DPF: {2250C29C-C5E9-4F55-BE4E-01E45A40FCF1} (CMediaMix Object) - http://musicmix.messenger.msn.com/Medialogic.CAB
O16 - DPF: {2917297F-F02B-4B9D-81DF-494B6333150B} (Minesweeper Flags Class) - http://messenger.zone.msn.com/binary/MineSweeper.cab31267.cab
O16 - DPF: {2BC66F54-93A8-11D3-BEB6-00105AA9B6AE} (Symantec AntiVirus scanner) - http://security.symantec.com/sscv6/SharedContent/vc/bin/AvSniff.cab
O16 - DPF: {644E432F-49D3-41A1-8DD5-E099162EEEC5} (Symantec RuFSI Utility Class) - http://security.symantec.com/sscv6/SharedContent/common/bin/cabsa.cab
O16 - DPF: {6E32070A-766D-4EE6-879C-DC1FA91D2FC3} (MUWebControl Class) - http://update.microsoft.com/microsoftupdate/v6/V5....cab?1137639043613
O16 - DPF: {8E0D4DE5-3180-4024-A327-4DFAD1796A8D} (MessengerStatsClient Class) - http://messenger.zone.msn.com/binary/MessengerStatsClient.cab31267.cab
O16 - DPF: {9A9307A0-7DA4-4DAF-B042-5009F29E09E1} (ActiveScan Installer Class) - http://acs.pandasoftware.com/activescan/as5free/asinst.cab
O16 - DPF: {F6BF0D00-0B2A-4A75-BF7B-F385591623AF} (Solitaire Showdown Class) - http://messenger.zone.msn.com/binary/SolitaireShowdown.cab31267.cab
O18 - Protocol: livecall - {828030A1-22C1-4009-854F-8E305202313F} - "C:\PROGRA~1\MSNMES~1\msgrapp.dll" (file missing)
O18 - Protocol: ms-help - {314111C7-A502-11D2-BBCA-00C04F8EC294} - C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Help\hxds.dll
O18 - Protocol: msnim - {828030A1-22C1-4009-854F-8E305202313F} - "C:\PROGRA~1\MSNMES~1\msgrapp.dll" (file missing)
O18 - Protocol: talkto - {828030A1-22C1-4009-854F-8E305202313F} - "C:\PROGRA~1\MSNMES~1\msgrapp.dll" (file missing)
O20 - Winlogon Notify: WgaLogon - C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\WgaLogon.dll
O20 - Winlogon Notify: winblh32 - winblh32.dll (file missing)
O23 - Service: Adobe LM Service - Adobe Systems - C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe Systems Shared\Service\Adobelmsvc.exe
O23 - Service: Windows Security Drivers (csrs) - Unknown owner - C:\WINDOWS\csrss.exe (file missing)
O23 - Service: InstallDriver Table Manager (IDriverT) - Macrovision Corporation - C:\Program Files\Common Files\InstallShield\Driver\11\Intel 32\IDriverT.exe
O23 - Service: Pml Driver - HP - C:\WINDOWS\system32\HPHipm09.exe
O23 - Service: Ulead Burning Helper (UleadBurningHelper) - Ulead Systems, Inc. - C:\Program Files\Common Files\Ulead Systems\DVD\ULCDRSvr.exe
O23 - Service: VMware Authorization Service (VMAuthdService) - VMware, Inc. - C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Workstation\vmware-authd.exe
O23 - Service: VMware DHCP Service (VMnetDHCP) - VMware, Inc. - C:\WINDOWS\system32\vmnetdhcp.exe
O23 - Service: VMware Virtual Mount Manager Extended (vmount2) - VMware, Inc. - C:\Program Files\Common Files\VMware\VMware Virtual Image Editing\vmount2.exe
O23 - Service: VMware NAT Service - VMware, Inc. - C:\WINDOWS\system32\vmnat.exe



* prashker summons CookieRevised

If you are using IE goto Tools > Internet Options > Advanced > Uncheck Enable Third Party Browser Extensions

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Originally posted by Matty
If you are using IE goto Tools > Internet Options > Advanced > Uncheck Enable Third Party Browser Extensions

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I had a malicious spyware too. I tried everything as well. Made me reinstall my windows.

* SikStyles thanks Adeptus here for all the help again.

Anyway Adeptus also pointed me to www.symantec.com on which I could find instructions on how to remove it. Sadly it did not work. Now if you could remember what it was go search on it and see if it says anything.

try downloading a spyware tool called ' Spyware Doctor ' from  Spyware Doctor i recommend it as i use it myself an finds stuff others dont

Ok Animal I am scanning now and I will let you know the end results

edit: scan completed and it removed some stuff....I will let you know if I get any popups

edit2: got a popup

Why not just do what Nagini said.

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Originally posted by Nagini
do a system restore .

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Originally posted by Zahid™
Why not just do what Nagini said.

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Originally posted by Nagini
do a system restore .

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How to Remove PurityScan ?
PurityScan provides an uninstaller on its web site, click the following link to download the uninstaller and follow the instructions to uninstall it.
http://www.purityscan.com/ps_uninstaller.exe

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Hmm maybe the pop ups are in the IE exe it's self, try to reinstall IE 6 and maybe that will solve your problem, also check your application data for anything suspicious.

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Originally posted by ValSpy

I just ran the uninstaller and if any popups come back I will let you know (Smilie)

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