skibumchris Posted March 19, 2006 Share Posted March 19, 2006 ok so i thought being a star trek forum someone might be able to help me. I keep getting pop ups from something called winfixer when ever I'm using IE, does anyone know of a free shareware removel tool that will work? my adaware does the blue screen of death when ever I try to open it. it drives me nuts when im hotmail or even have a windows explorer page opens it fires to a web site wanting me to buy somehting. thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StitchInTime Posted March 19, 2006 Share Posted March 19, 2006 Spybot or AVG antivirus, both free, or better still, ditch IE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amnot Borg Posted March 19, 2006 Share Posted March 19, 2006 List of products that (supposedly) detect/remove/protect against WinFixer: X-Cleaner RegBlock PestPatrol Ad-Aware RTGuardian I like IE but it can be a pain in the a**. That's why Firefox is my backup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrDad Posted March 19, 2006 Share Posted March 19, 2006 Go here http://forums.majorgeeks.com/forumdisplay.php?f=35 , read through all the stickies and follow all the directions applicable to you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skibumchris Posted March 19, 2006 Author Share Posted March 19, 2006 thanks yeah i use fire fox 95% of the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Megalith Posted March 20, 2006 Share Posted March 20, 2006 Ok i have an anti-virus with an adware removal tool which i thought was doing a good job. Although i to have had this WinFixer Popup on my system using Firefox. Well today i had a problem with my router so i went to technical support they gave me this address. http://www.ewido.net/en/ I downloaded this and found to my shock i had 244 malacious pieces of software running on my computer. Now its running great and as of yet i haven't had the pop-up. I would recommend this to anybody who is having strange problems not only to do with popups but also things like line disconnections, problems logging onto msn and unusual lags. Sadly it is completely open for only 14 days then some features are disabled maybe can find this unlocked somewhere :) but it is so good i may even part with my hard earned cash. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest c4evap Posted March 20, 2006 Share Posted March 20, 2006 Sadly it is completely open for only 14 days then some features are disabled maybe can find this unlocked somewhere :) but it is so good i may even part with my hard earned cash. Here's a link to a file. It's for an "open" ;) version. c4 B) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StitchInTime Posted March 20, 2006 Share Posted March 20, 2006 Here's a link to a torrent. It's for an "open" ;) version. c4 B) Have you got it, then? Oops. You have to have at least WIN2000; so, that leaves me out of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest c4evap Posted March 20, 2006 Share Posted March 20, 2006 No. I use Norton Anti-Virus 2005. A bit top heavy but works for me. For a firewall I use Zonelabs Intregrity Client. Both gotten from IsoHunt (a berry, berry nice place indeed!). EDIT: StitchInTime...what OS are you using? Win98? :p c4 :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amnot Borg Posted March 20, 2006 Share Posted March 20, 2006 Surprisingly, I still run across customers using win98. Various reasons: can't afford to upgrade, not enough RAM, fear of new software. ...and M$ is dropping support for those customers. money is king and to many of us are still serfs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skibumchris Posted March 20, 2006 Author Share Posted March 20, 2006 yeah i have tried malwear and it still comes up. arg. but it did find stuff norton missed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amnot Borg Posted March 20, 2006 Share Posted March 20, 2006 Some useful things I use at work are Spybot, Ad-Aware, and HijackThis. Unfortunately, sometimes the best fix is a format/reinstallation of the OS. How long ago was your OS installed? IF you try and try again and it still won't clean it, try that. Remember to backup what you can. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Megalith Posted March 20, 2006 Share Posted March 20, 2006 Shhhh i found a password for it c4evap ;) Dont know what it is skibumchris then. It fixed that for me anyway. I presume you ran a full scan. I know from my last job tho that a memo went round about the incompatability of any norton product and windows XP this led to all norton products being removed from all machines. I havent used any norton products at all since. I suggest using Kaspersky for an AV prog its much better than norton anyway and it doesnt have the holes and what is the big frightener, the potential to totally screw the HDD. As such it isnt norton that is the problem but other software reacting with it. This as i said goes for any norton product. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skibumchris Posted March 20, 2006 Author Share Posted March 20, 2006 hey thanks, i will give it a try. your avitar is kind of disturbing for some reason lol.....its going to give me nightmares Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Megalith Posted March 20, 2006 Share Posted March 20, 2006 lol FYI skibumchris my avatar is the opening credit sequance to The Tomorrow People, as are the quotes at the bottom. It should be illigal for advertisers to exploit holes to scare people into buying their product but alas this is the internet and it is about freedom so i suppose these people have just as much right to do this as i do to download data ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest c4evap Posted March 21, 2006 Share Posted March 21, 2006 ...my avatar is the opening credit sequance to The Tomorrow People... Really? I thought it was a horney starfish ;) c4 :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostShadow Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 If you have a comcast account then McAfee is free, that is what I use and it kicks butt. also try using Firefox or Opera instead of IE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steveo Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 Symantec Corporate is good - norton without the big GUI and memory hogging. I only ever use IE when I'm downloading a large file on the 100mbps connection, firefox doesn't seem to handle them as well as IE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tenebrae Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 I'd say use AVG Free - but I've been told it's now minus the free. Still, as anti-virus type software goes, it's small and innocous and not the massive memory hog that some are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StitchInTime Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 I'd say use AVG Free - but I've been told it's now minus the free. No, there's a free version, here: http://free.grisoft.com/doc/2/lng/us/tpl/v5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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