I've already got stopsign and adAware.
I keep getting random popups and crap, but that's not really the problem

Recently, some "spyware scanner/remover" showed up on my computer, but i din't download it. It keeps popping up and won't leave me alone, and keeps opening up other anti-spyware sites.
Evrytime i hit uninstall it does nothing. And it's disabled the task manager(ctrl alt del) so i can't even see what prcesses are opening it.

Any advice?
thanks.

edit:the name of the program in question is "awola," just in case it matters.

 

download HiJackThis
install n run.

Then post up the log aftee it runs. this will show ALL running processes.

Sounds like you or some who uses your PC clicked ok on one of those annoying popups.

 

1. stop visiting so many **** sites

2. try going to http://housecall.trendmicro.com/ and run "housecall". It is a free antivirus/spyware online program. I think you have to use Microsoft Internet Explorer. It will take some time for this program to scan your computer, so be patient!

 

if all these suggestions dont work, you may have to go into the individual keys in config and remove the site/program to get this to stop. if you do a search for your particular problem, you can get a step by step how to. if you can post up a screen shot of exactly what your screen is showing i can try and point you in the right direction, that is provided you can do it in the next 29 minutes....

 

Probably the least time consuming thing to do would be to reformat.

 

My dad had gotten a bunch of that crap about a month ago on his, took me the better part of a day to clean it up, its definately a pita.

 

and then sometimes it pops up spyware websites.

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This? :Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2
Scan saved at 6:01:23 PM, on 2/3/2008
Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600)
MSIE: Internet Explorer v7.00 (7.00.6000.16574)
Boot mode: Normal
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:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Ad-Aware 2007\aawservice.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\rxjddnvj.exe
C:\WINDOWS\Explorer.EXE
C:\Program Files\eAcceleration\OnAccess\scan.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\spoolsv.exe
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Apple\Mobile Device Support\bin\AppleMobileDeviceService.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\CTsvcCDA.EXE
C:\Program Files\eAcceleration\Firewall\FWService.exe
C:\Program Files\Common Files\LightScribe\LSSrvc.exe
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\VS7DEBUG\MDM.EXE
C:\WINDOWS\system32\nvsvc32.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe
C:\Program Files\QuickTime\bak\QTTask.exe
C:\Program Files\iTunes\iTunesHelper.exe
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Real\Update_OB\realsched.exe
C:\Program Files\eAcceleration\Station\station.exe
C:\Program Files\Acceleration Software\Anti-Virus\stopsignav.exe
C:\Program Files\eAcceleration\OnAccess\OnAccess.exe
C:\WINDOWS\System32\Rundll32.exe
C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\IEXPLORE.EXE
C:\Program Files\AIM\aim.exe
C:\Program Files\eAcceleration\OnAccess\dguard.exe
C:\Program Files\AWS\WeatherBug\Weather.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\ctfmon.exe
C:\Program Files\Messenger\msmsgs.exe
C:\Program Files\SpyDefender Pro\SpyDefender.exe
C:\DOCUME~1\Lively\MYDOCU~1\CROSOF~1.NET\spool32.e xe
C:\Documents and Settings\Lively\My Documents\M?crosoft.NET\?pool32.exe
C:\Documents and Settings\Lively\Application Data\npqyb.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\ctfmon.exe
C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe
C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe
C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Ad-Aware 2007\Ad-Aware2007.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\mspaint.exe
C:\Program Files\Trend Micro\HijackThis\HijackThis.exe
R1 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Default_Page_URL = http://ie.redirect.hp.com/svs/rdr?TY...amp;pf=desktop
R1 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Default_Search_URL = http://ie.redirect.hp.com/svs/rdr?TY...amp;pf=desktop
R1 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Search Bar = http://ie.redirect.hp.com/svs/rdr?TY...amp;pf=desktop
R1 - HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Default_Page_URL = http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=69157
R1 - HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Default_Search_URL = http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=54896
R1 - HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Search Bar = [URL=http://ie.redirect.hp.com/svs/rdr?TYPE=3&tp=iesearch&locale=EN_US&c= Q106&bd=presario&pf=desktop]http://ie.redirect.hp.com/svs/rdr?TYPE=3&tp=iesearch&locale=EN_US&c= Q106&bd=presar

 

ok right off the bat, goto Add/Remove Programs.

Uninstall Spydefender and awola.

I never heard of stopsign, I use firefox and have zero issues with popups.

You have adaware, thats good. I use spybot search n destroy and run its registery monitor so NOTHING gets wrote to the registry w/o my permission.

Try uninstalling those 2 first n maybe even stopsigh unless you know for sure it has nuttin to do with the issue.

Then rerun hijackthis n post the log.

 

Posibily if he has nuttin he needs to save n keep. And has all the drivers n such for his PC and has a working knowledge of how to do it lol. To me and I take you n other its no bigger but to most of the world thats pure hell for them lol.

But yes cleaning out unwanted bugs from a PC can be time consuming.

Also Lively, if you have restore enabled you may try resoring to a previous point b4 this issue started.