Where have all the good guys gone

CD Smith · 2007-12-07, 10:11 AM

I had something sort of similar hit my pc a couple of years back. Among lots of other things it would pop up forced ads whenever I would hit certain web pages. And I know they were forced because some of those web pages were MINE... and I know I had no popups running.

Anyway, I was running norton utilities on that pc and it had something called "GoBack" installed. That is ultimately what saved my bacon. After about a week of fighting this annoying bug and trying every manner of anti spyware and adware removal program out there I tried running GoBack... and took my pc back to a restore point before it got infected (about 8 days), reinitialized and POOF.... no more malicious install.

Of course I lost any work/emails etc that took place that week but it was a small price to pay for getting rid of that bug.

My only other option remaining was of course to wipe the harddrive and reinstall Windows.

If I were you I'd be looking at my system restore function in windows, or if you're running Norton then maybe you remembered to enable GoBack and you can restore your system to a time before it got infected.

Either way, best of luck.

2007-12-07, 10:11 AM	#1
CD Smith The one and only at your service Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Winnipeg, MB, Canada Posts: 669	I had something sort of similar hit my pc a couple of years back. Among lots of other things it would pop up forced ads whenever I would hit certain web pages. And I know they were forced because some of those web pages were MINE... and I know I had no popups running. Anyway, I was running norton utilities on that pc and it had something called "GoBack" installed. That is ultimately what saved my bacon. After about a week of fighting this annoying bug and trying every manner of anti spyware and adware removal program out there I tried running GoBack... and took my pc back to a restore point before it got infected (about 8 days), reinitialized and POOF.... no more malicious install. Of course I lost any work/emails etc that took place that week but it was a small price to pay for getting rid of that bug. My only other option remaining was of course to wipe the harddrive and reinstall Windows. If I were you I'd be looking at my system restore function in windows, or if you're running Norton then maybe you remembered to enable GoBack and you can restore your system to a time before it got infected. Either way, best of luck. __________________ ICQ: 31024634