How to stop unwanted jumps to porn sites?

[newarksmells]

Well here my fiancee is browsing foodnetwork.com, clicks on a recipe and ends up in the porn site to all end all porn sites. Here I am reading about a bunch of teenage thugs in Hamilton on NJ.COM and I end up in a pornsite featuring "teen" models.

I have run "regedit", anti-virus-software with no success. Same thing happended to a guy who works for me last week...at work. And he was on CNN.COM...albeit briefly.

Any idea on how to stop this from happening? Your help would be greatly aprreciated.

Thanks

Newarksmells

[Naples Air Center, Inc.]

Newarksmells,

Lets try two things.

1) Run a scan with:

Trend Micro's HouseCall (http://housecall.trendmicro.com/)

Just to make sure we have one good, up to date, virus scan.

2) Ran a scan with:

Lavasoft's Ad-aware (http://lavasoft.element5.com/software/adaware/)

It see if any malware is redirecting everything you click on to porn sites.

Take Care,

Richard

[TheStormyPetrel]

I'm not sure if this will help, but since we installed the Google toolbar with "pop-up blocker" option, accidently activating invisible but live links to those sites seems to be a thing of the past. :ok: Would you believe it's blocked 186 pop-ups in 4 or 6 weeks!! (It has a counter showing the number blocked)

The toolbar has other cool options too.

I love Google!! :D

[YYZ]

Im Confused?

Why would you want too stop this.......

Only kidding, get pop-up cop or the likes.

You can download a variety through Kazaa all free

:8

[PPRuNe Pop]

Did you know! Google is probably going to be floated. It is worth...................................£17bn!! Seventeen Billion GBP's!! :eek:

The two guys who started it are going to be super rich. :ok:

[newarksmells]

Thanks.

I now use Earthlink's Pop-up Bar and have tried Ad-Aware and Housecalll, both of which report no problems when using their software to scan my drive and registry..

However, the problem still persists.

As for the comedian who asked why I wouldn't want it.... i have a 12 year boy in the house. And I am not a priest !!

Thanks

Newark

[Front_Seat_Dreamer]

newark

I think you may have one of the very stealthy viruses that is proliferating the internet.

I can't remember the name but it leaves a folder on the root of your c:\ drive called something like abc123 (sorry can't remember that name but it was a few weeks ago I stumbled over it) If my colleague remembers tomorrow I will post the actual name and the virus, but check your c:\ drive for a weird folder and if you find it google it then you should get the fix.

If this is not the case then try SpybotSD (http://security.kolla.de/) which gets rid of stuff that Ad-Aware leaves behind.

[Naples Air Center, Inc.]

Newarksmells,

Popup blocker might stop it from popping up, but that does not address the cause. We need to find out why it was popping up in the first place and remove the offending program/malware from your system.

Take Care,

Richard

[Deaf]

The solution for the future (after cleaning your system) is quite simple and will solve most of the current problems:

Go to

http://www.opera.com/download/index.dml?platform=windows

Download Opera with Java and install it. Then go File - Quick Preferences - Refuse popup windows. Problem solved!

Most people I know who use windows use Opera for browsing and Eudora for mail

http://www.eudora.com/download/

Basically don't use IE or Outlook and you will have very few problems

[YYZ]

As for the comedian who asked why I wouldn't want it.... i have a 12 year boy in the house. And I am not a priest !!

As you may of noticed i did say "only kidding"

And then EVEN continued to give you a small piece of advice which stopped this from happaning on my PC?

Some people just have either no sense of humour or do not read replies thoroughly?
:(

[newarksmells]

My apologies...sincerely. You have no idea how tough it is to explain to a youngster why that man is doing this to a woman when the kid just barely turned 12.

With my 1st 2 kids..now 19 and 14, it sure was easier. How times change quickly...sometimes for the worse.

[YYZ]

Look on the bright side newarksmells at least you escaped sunny Bradford!

Though it says im in Leeds my postcode (zip for the US) is in Bradford:(

I need to move:{

[newarksmells]

With a combination of Hijack, Spybot and Ad-Aware and 11 hours of time. I was able to eradicate the problem. Many thanks to all of you who helped.

Newarksmells...especially whan it's raining like today.

[Blacksheep]

How odd, the very instant I clicked on this topic PPRuNe told me the site was too busy and to come back later and my pooter was simultaneously probed by both a StackBo DNS and a Slammer worm sniffer. Coincidence?

I had a problem similar to this a year or two back. I stopped the pop-ups in a similar way to those recommended above but was left with six porno cookies that would not delete in my Temporary Internet folder. You could get rid of them but they always reappeared when you rebooted. Nothing could work out what they were and in the end it took a disk reformat to clear them. Watch out for the porno e-mail swarm. I got up to forty or fifty a day for ages.

I also discovered that one of my disc partitions had shrunk by 50 megs. There was evidently a hidden file that was taking up the lost space. That was when I became seriously interested in firewalls.

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Through difficulties to the cinema

PS: Port 1434 has been probed 17 times while I've been on this topic - that's a fairly massive attack, especially as I'm on-line in full stealth mode with all shields up and theoretically invisible except to the site I'm connected to. 61.233.16.97, you're a very naughty boy. I shall report you to the thought police.