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.

Any help appreciated.

You guys sux0rs.

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.

Use Spybot, update, immunize, and search.

Originally posted by Yuna_And_Tidus
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.

Any help appreciated.

Originally posted by ThePittman
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.

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.

Originally posted by Yuna_And_Tidus
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.

I don't use anything other than Netscape. Shall I try?

I was thinking maybe I could find out where the file location of the ad.yieldmanager is as well, don't you think?

Originally posted by Yuna_And_Tidus
I don't use anything other than Netscape. Shall I try?

I was thinking maybe I could find out where the file location of the ad.yieldmanager is as well, don't you think?

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.

Alright thank you, I will try Ad-watch.