IE popups on close

Forum Moderators: open

Message Too Old, No Replies

IE popups on close

Popups just started

Peddler

10:11 pm on Jan 18, 2004 (gmt 0)

Greetings:

I am using XP Home OS and IE6. I've been receiving 2 or 3 popups following closeing of IE. The firewall is active and I disabled messages and everything I could find with no results. Does anyone have any suggestions what to do next?

Thanks.

PatrickDeese

10:17 pm on Jan 18, 2004 (gmt 0)

You most probably installed spyware into your system. Try

"AdAware" and "Spybot Search and Destroy" - free programs to remove that kind of junk.

4serendipity

6:33 am on Jan 19, 2004 (gmt 0)

you might also try turning off Windows Messenger service.

Peddler

4:20 pm on Jan 19, 2004 (gmt 0)

Thanks for the response.

I have turned off messanger and using SpyBot to clean the system. The problem still continues.

robert adams

10:53 pm on Jan 19, 2004 (gmt 0)

It could be a web page you are viewing just before you shut down or even your home page when you start up. If either one of those has popups, that could be it.

luck,
robert

Peddler

3:46 pm on Jan 20, 2004 (gmt 0)

Thanks for the response Robert.

These popups happend randomly regardless of the site I am viewing. I am at a total loss of what to do next.

asquithea

7:04 pm on Jan 20, 2004 (gmt 0)

Weeeell....

at the risk of stating the obvious, have you considered using a different browser? I'd tend to suggest something that isn't IE based, so you close the various vulnerabilities and security holes (ActiveX included) at the same time.

Suggested alternatives:
Mozilla Firebird (Excellent rendering, fairly lightweight, lots of extensions)
Opera (Ad-supported, or payment required. Good rendering.)
Mozilla 1.5 or Netscape 7.x (Complete Suite -- best used if you also use the email client part)

In all seriousness, sites that only work with Internet Explorer are now fairly rare, and the alternatives suffer vary little from the malware problem.

Peddler

7:24 pm on Jan 20, 2004 (gmt 0)

Thanks. I've been thinking about changing. The one thing I am not clear on is if I switch will I still be able to use Outlook Express?

I do not care for Netscape and complete unknowledgeable about Firebird.

asquithea

7:35 pm on Jan 20, 2004 (gmt 0)

You will still be able to use Outlook Express, but if you want to do so, you'll probably want just a browser, rather than a suite.

Mozilla Firebird uses the same rendering engine as Mozilla/Netscape, but is just a browser rather than a whole package. Like the suite, it supports tabbed browsing, pop-up blocking, ad-blocking etc, but it has a better user interface.
Find out more about it [mozilla.org]; download it [mozilla.org]; and check out the support forums [forums.mozillazine.org].

I'm using it for about 6 months (I changed over from IE 6), and I've been very impressed. Features that are important to me include themes (skinning), and extensions (adding features such as mouse gestures, if you want them).

If you want to try a new mail client too (bear in mind that Outlook/Express uses Internet Explorer to display HTML email, so it shares some vulnerabilities), I'd suggest giving Mozilla Suite a try -- I gather its mail component is excellent.

Peddler

8:48 pm on Jan 20, 2004 (gmt 0)

Thank you for the suggestions. I've already downloaded Firebird and will be installing it shortly.

Peddler

7:56 pm on Jan 23, 2004 (gmt 0)

Back again...
I downloaded and installed Firebird, however a problem. My html editor will not start Firebird as it did with IE to view a file in runtime. So for now I am back to IE.

New info...
Following is the script I was able to obtain from one of the popups. I would appreciate any suggestions.

</body>
</html>

[edited by: tedster at 11:40 pm (utc) on Jan. 24, 2004]
[edit reason] switch to example.net [/edit]

encyclo

9:21 pm on Jan 23, 2004 (gmt 0)

Looking at that code, you have been trojaned. Google for "winpup32.exe", which is the culprit here. Here's some good pages to get you started:

[sarc.com...]
[sophos.com...]

Good luck, hope you don't have to reinstall everything (although that's often the only way!)

robert adams

5:59 am on Jan 24, 2004 (gmt 0)

I downloaded and installed Firebird, however a problem. My html editor will not start Firebird as it did with IE to view a file in runtime. So for now I am back to IE.

what does view in runtime mean?
and I am not sure what you mean by your html editor won't start firebird.

If you are talking about viewing the source of a webpage, you just open it in notepad or some text editor.(not word)

luck,
robert

Peddler

7:34 pm on Jan 24, 2004 (gmt 0)

Hi Robert:
I am using a html editor to write a program, then to test what has been written the editor allows the browser to be call so the program can be viewed in the runtime mode. Saves a lot of extra time when the progran does not to be saved then run in the browser.

Peddler

7:42 pm on Jan 24, 2004 (gmt 0)

Hi encyclo, you are a lifesavor...
I had a trojan and found how to remove it at the sophos.com site.

Thanks for the suggestions.

robert adams

3:16 am on Jan 25, 2004 (gmt 0)

most html editors have a setting to choose what browser to preview in. have you looked to see if yours does.

luck,
robert

Peddler

9:12 pm on Jan 25, 2004 (gmt 0)

Hi Robert:

My editor does have a place to list the browser of your choice, and I did that. I was incorrect to say it didn't open, it did open but would not run the program. Anyhow I am now back to using IE.

robert adams

7:55 am on Jan 26, 2004 (gmt 0)

I know this isn't really important, I am just really confused.

Hi Robert:
My editor does have a place to list the browser of your choice, and I did that. I was incorrect to say it didn't open, it did open but would not run the program. Anyhow I am now back to using IE.

would not run what program
what editor are you using?

Html is just text, it is not a program. I don't understand what you are doing.

just confused,
robert

Peddler

4:34 pm on Jan 26, 2004 (gmt 0)

Hi Robert:

I use the html editor to create or write a html program, while using the editor I can just click an icon to run the program using the assigned browser.

It is easier to use this method than to save the program and then start the browser to view the results of what has been written.