Question involving spyware

[Zot09]

Alright, so to get down to the point, every 30 minutes to an hour, a stupid banner pops up asking me to download WinFixer 2005 to clean my computers registry. I click "cancel" and then a new IE window pops up taking me to the main page. I've ran my anti-virus software(McAfee), and used my anti-spyware program(Microsoft Anti-Spyware) to search for it, but nothing has popped up. Is anyone else having the same problem? Is there a way to rid of it? Any help would be appreciated, thank you.

[zondaland]

Try downloading adaware and Spybot Search and Destroy. Those two tend to cover most things, they are also free.

[antonioledesma]

as zondaland says, download those programs.
Sometimes both spybot and ad-aware don't detect the spyware/malware. Download this if you run spybot and ad-aware and your computer still has those ads: Bazooka Scanner (link) (http://www.download.com/Bazooka-Adware-and-Spyware-Scanner/3000-8022_4-10377953.html?tag=lst-0-1). This program will NOT clean your computer, it only detects spyware. Once you have the name of the spyware program you can google it and find the solution

[abbor]

I had that problem, untill I tried to get rid of another one, raze spyware...

I used HijackThis, which I think is better, because it shows all things running that might be this type of shit... Although you gotta now what you should never remove.. :wink:

You may have to run it in safe mode, search, and delete files like: URLSearchHook, and SearchAssistant... Also, if you find something like 180solutions, remove that one...