Desparately need some help (Vanity)

12/31/10 | Celtic Cross

[Celtic Cross]

I need some help! Lately, I've been getting a vile pop up. Its far beyond any other ad I've encountered on the web. Appearing randomly, in the sidebars and ad spaces of completely innocuous websites, is an ad which says 'sl*ts of facebook', or some other offensive message, but always referring to facebook. In every ad is an uncensored image of a completely naked woman.

I don't know is there's some virus on my computer; I've tried running spybot several times, with no result.

If any other FReeper has faced such a problem, and/or knows how to stop it from happening, please lend a hand. I'm getting darn tired of it.

[Dallas59]

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[FReepaholic]

I've had good results using Malwarebytes to remove this crap.

http://www.malwarebytes.org/

If you still get the crap after running Malwarebytes, try booting into Safe Mode and running it.

[buccaneer81]

Laz, your expertise is required... ;-)

[Lucky9teen]

Not sure what you've got, but go to www.malwarebytes.org and download and run Malwarebytes. It's free and is great at removing malware/spyware, etc.

Also, you may want to get CC Cleaner. It cleans up your system and is good at fixing registry errors.

Check out www.majorgeeks.com. They have some really cool utilities and technical stuff that will help with just what you're dealing with.

[Dallas59]

Also try to empty your temp folder.

In windows search type in %TEMP%. Open it and delete everything.

[nevergore]

There’s completely naked women popping up on your computer?

I fail to see the problem.....

[the invisib1e hand]

go to safer networking and follow the instructions on the "Malware Removal" section.

[redpoll]

I just did a google search on your behalf and came across a posting about an app which causes your computer to display “facebook sluts,” as well as advice about getting rid of it. My guess is that you’re the victim of some kind of malware... good luck trying to get rid of it. I think that concentrated efforts with better experts than me can help you out.

[Celtic Cross]

Thanks all! I’ll try your suggestions.

[gitmo]

Restore the OS to a date prior to the sl*t popup.

[bajabaja]

ShadowAce, this sounds like a job for your Tech Ping List. Celtic Cross complains of naked women popping up on his screen. Probably has some malware.

Obviously, if Celtic Cross were me, there would be no problem. Women run away when I am around — they never have time to get naked.

Perhaps the TP list has a better solution.

Happy New Year

[Larry Lucido]

Because the naked chick is Helen Thomas.

[rockrr]

Thanks for sparing us the picture ;-)

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Try a system restore back as far as you can get.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306084

[Twinkie]

We have, but it was beyond us; so we took the computer to get the professionals to clean it up. - Maybe some site you were on dropped some advertising cookies on you.

[Silentgypsy]

LOL!

[Silentgypsy]

“Thanks for sparing us the picture ;-)”
One Who Will Remain Nameless responded to a query with, “Let me illustrate my point with this graph.” I clicked on the link and up popped a two-headed Helen Thomas (like one wouldn’t be enough). Ack!

[ShadowAce]

[politicalmerc]

Dear, someone in your house is looking at porn to get that malware.