Gender: Female Location: Lodged up more than one ass
Retarded Computer [Taskbar problems and more]..
Well let me start with my first and BIGGEST issue, I realise that there is a stickied spyware help thread here in this forum but I have not found any help from the criteria in it. I seem to have this [adware] I guess called ad.yieldmanager and it's very common and I have searched google through pages and pages and have followed a lot of the steps, downloaded (and taken up plenty of space) Anti-Spyware/Malware programs, virus scanners, etc etc and the pop-up still comes up. I use Netscape as my browser (and I have heard of people getting this on IE too) and I do not want to change it unless I absolutely have to.
Secondly I am having a taskbar issue. At random times the taskbar will lock up for appx. 5-10 second invervals and nothing on the taskbar, including the Start button, is clickable and then it will go back to normal as if nothing happened a bit later.
Why the hell are you using a Netscape browser? Netscape and IE(From my exp) is a virus fisher(Meaning EASILY attract virus). Get Firefox, it blocks Adwares and etc.
Well first off you need to get rid of the spyware, use the programs mentioned and that should work. As for the taskbar it doesn’t sound like a problem with that but your process that are running, when it happens go to the Windows Task Manager (Ctrl + Alt + Delete) and click on the Performance tab and you will see how much CPU Usage is running. If it is at 100% then your computer pretty much locks up until some of the process are reduced. You can see which ones are taking up all the CPU which could be the virus or spyware.
Gender: Female Location: Lodged up more than one ass
I know, thanks, but everything that was mentioned, I have and have tried numerous times whether in normal mode or safe mode and sometimes they don't go away at all, sometimes they do but they come right back. It's ad.yieldmanager and cpxinteractive.
If it's the CPU that's causing the taskbar lock up, that's not too big of a problem I can take care of that later, I'm just worried about the stupit reoccurring spyware. Thank you.
If you run the spyware program and it gets rid of it then later it comes back then it is a place or file that you are using and you do not have any protection on your computer. Having your spyware program run all the time such as Ad-Watch will help this or virus programs that has running spyware. Is this only happening when you are running Netscape, does this happen when you run Firefox or IE as well?
Yes you should try it in the other browsers so to see if this is a Netscape related bug or not, if it is use the other program until you can get the problem fixed for now. For deleting the file if you can find it sometimes this works but I had a spyware many years back and I found the file but every time I deleted it the file came back, there was another file that was hidden that would recreate the file if deleted.
Installing the program Ad-Watch and having it run in the background is a useful tool, it will check automatically to see if spyware is trying to be installed as well as modifications to the registry, ever since I’ve had this program running I haven’t had any issues.
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Jun 7th, 2007 12:43 AM
