pop ups

cranoo

Hi Lads,

I need a bit of a dig out here, I have boards.ie set as my home page, but now everytime i logon a different page loads as my home page, and i cant get rid of it, and to add to that some poxy casino popup loads as well, I have done a search for them to no avail, plus deleted my temp internet files and cookies alas they still hound me, anyone any ideas on how to rid myself of them.

Cranoo.

maxheadroom

is it lop.com?

irishgeo

Download AdAware or Spybot Seek and Destroy

Bard

Originally posted by maxheadroom
is it lop.com?

The owners of that site should be ritually bludgeoned with medieval maces.

Just thought I'd mention that...

cranoo

Originally posted by Bard
The owners of that site should be ritually bludgeoned with medieval maces.

Just thought I'd mention that...

No it's a poxy casino ad

cranoo

Hi lads

I DOWNLOADED SPYBOT s/d, IT GOT RID OF ALOT OF S**T
BUT MY HOME PAGE KEEPS CHANGING TO THIS C:\WINDOWS\tcrusseeeevee.htm#http://www.boards.ie/
BOARDS TRYS TO LOAD BUT THAT SCRIPT JUMPS IN AT THE LAST MINUTE AND AN ANNOYING POPUP :mad:

CRANOO

cranoo

Originally posted by maxheadroom
is it lop.com?

yep and lop.com

how do you get rid of it.

cranoo :eek:

maxheadroom

how do you connect to the internet? And what version on Windows?

cranoo

win 98se adsl

maxheadroom

Somebody with some win98 skillz will have to help you out.


You want to scan through the registry looking for the address that keeps coming up. You might also have to get rid of a "connection specific DNS suffix".

If it was WinXP I could talk you through it... sorry

cranoo

Thanks for the help anyway

cranoo

ps. I am very good at fixing probs in windows, I find that
format C: /s can fix just about anything

fisty

possibly a script loading at startup that resets the homepage,
try Run - MsConfig - Selective Startup, untick all the boxes.
also have a look at win.ini if you're comfortable with that, might be something loading in there.

Also check the properties of the IE executable and see theres no extra options in there at the command line.

That should get rid of the script ****ing up your home page.
For popups, get the new googlebar, it rocks for popup blocking and dead handy too.

http://toolbar.google.com/
(Get the 2.0 Beta version for the popup killer)

hope this helps

Ste-

This problem has been around ages.
Do a search in here for lop.com or download ad-aware 6.0 I used it last month to rid a pc of it.

The owners of that site should be ritually bludgeoned with medieval maces.

I agree.

[edit]Heres the link http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/search.php?s=&action=showresults&searchid=153797&sortby=lastpost&sortorder=descending [/edit]

echomadman

This should be made a sticky tbh its being asked all the time


http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html
this blocks spyware activex doenloads before they can affect your computer, also has a tool to lock your hosts file to stop homepage hijackers

http://security.kolla.de/index.php?lang=en&page=download
spybot will scan and remove spyware thats already on your system, also has advanced features that allow you to block known spyware downloads, and certain webpages

http://www.lavasoft.de/support/download/
Adaware... same as spybot, but you have to buy adaware plus to get the advanced blocking features.

I use them all in conjunction with each other on 20 machines in an internet cafe, and find these three to be the best of all the ones i've tried

Ronan|Raven

May not be relevant to your problem but for anyone suffering with lop.com then goto http://www.lop.com/help.html

Also if you dont want to goto the site you can download the following files:

http://lop.com/new_uninstall.exe
http://lop.com/toolbar_uninstall.exe

Cabaal

Originally posted by cranoo
Hi lads

I DOWNLOADED SPYB......

I know your new and all but please lay off THE CAPS
its considered shouting

corkie

If it is LOP then you get more instructions on how to clean your system here:

http://www.lop.reallysucksass.com/wantoff.htm

or

http://www.spywareinfo.com/articles/lop/