Anybody ever see a www.errorfixer.com pop-up?

rubadub · 20-12-2004 11:02am #1

My mates pc was riddled with viriuses and spyware. I formatted and reinstalled XP. Prior to this I scanned and cleaned his HD with macfee by connecting it as a slave to my PC. I did save his settings using the XP wizard.
While installing I made lots of restore points. I then transfered his settings.

I only had checked gmail, hotmail, google and boards and I had 2 www.errorfixer.com pop-ups. Could spyware have been saved by XP and transferred with settings? If I go back to my restore point and put in his internet settings manually should it fix it?

Mac daddy · 20-12-2004 2:26pm

why don't you just not run cw shredder - install spybot adaware and do a scan with then first would have saved you alot of time

Mac daddy · 20-12-2004 2:27pm

and install the google popup blocker

Syth · 20-12-2004 6:58pm

An unportected XP machine lasts about 10 minutes on the internet.

Hobbes · 20-12-2004 9:13pm

I generally scrap system restore as well, as some trojans intentionally infect that area so that they can reinfect if they are removed.

Syth is correct too, you don't actually have to be doing anything to get infected.

Also stay the hell of that website you posted, if your getting spam from them odds on they will reinfect you if you go there.

rubadub · 21-12-2004 9:16am

If I go back to my restore point before I transfered settings should they be gone?

Will the XP service pack do anything?
It didn't even last 10minutes!

Zombienosh · 21-12-2004 9:19am

run urself some adaware and some spybot, get firefox too.

i had a big problem with some errorplace.com spyware.
in the end i had to uninstall IE and then run all the anti spyware stuff.

Anybody ever see a www.errorfixer.com pop-up?

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