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As I have mentioned in previous threads, I have a problem with a shitty little ad trojan that I cannot find and kill. It pops up ads all the fucking time. Just now I posted a thread headed "Google Toolbar", as soon as I posted it I got a pop up window that looked like it may have been produced by this board that said:

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Hi, my name is Lara Grace and we have selected you to participate in a 30 second survey about Greenguysboard.com google toolbar. Please tell me about your Greenguysboard.com google toolbar usage and in exchange we will give you a nice gift =)

There then followed four questions of the type:

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How often do you use Greenguysboard.com google toolbar?

Then finally you got to a page saying:

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Thank you for completing the survey!
I have selected the following gifts which you can have. Please choose up to (3) gifts for completing my survey!

All the gifts were basically adverts.

I realised immediately that this was a fake survey, but if it had popped up from one of the sites I use that sometimes run customer surveys, or from a site that might do so, then I would probably have been fooled!

And as soon as I posted this thread I got:

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Hi, my name is Lara Grace and we have selected you to participate in a 30 second survey about Greenguysboard.com clever bastards. Please tell me about your Greenguysboard.com clever bastards usage and in exchange we will give you a nice gift =)

Have you tried using adwcleaner?

http://www.malwareremovalguides.info/adwcleaner/

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Originally Posted by JAI-LING (Post 534862)

Have you tried using adwcleaner?

http://www.malwareremovalguides.info/adwcleaner/

Just done so, thanks.

It appears to have cleared the problem BUT many times in the past the bastard appears to have been killed only to re-install itself later. So time will tell if this has finally worked, or if this is just a temporary reprieve!