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Windows Forum / Windows XP / Customization / January 2007System Alert (WindowsXP Pro)
This is a friends laptop computer. Every few minutes you get a "System Alert". The icon is in the System Tray (lower right corner). Can't figure out how to stop this. Cleaned out the Registry, deleted stuff in HKLM that might be a trogen, Ran Spybot several times to clean everything out. Ran McAfee and cleaned out two trogens. The system alert still pop ups. ********************************** System Alert System detected virus activates. These may impact the performance of your computer. Please use antimalware software to clean and project our system form parasite programs Click this balloon to get all available software. Clicking the icon, in the system tray, takes you to a website as shown below: www.anti-vermins.com/?aff=321 Its an advertisement to purchase Antivermins software, sponsored by Microsoft.. it appears. *********************************** What else can you suggest I do? Hi JCO: The alert is a scam. Your friend needs to remove the adware on her or his computer. Earl Grey > This is a friends laptop computer. Every few minutes you get a "System > Alert". The icon is in the System Tray (lower right corner). Can't figure [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > > What else can you suggest I do? That we figured. Spybot won't get rid of it and neither will McAfee. I can't tell where it is coming from. What other programs will get this Adware off of the computer. > Hi JCO: > [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] >> >> What else can you suggest I do? Hello again: As your friend is learning, adware can be very tough. Often you need to try many different scanners before you hit upon one that can identify what's on the computer. That's what you have to do now - try many different scanners. Here are a couple of the better ones to start you off: Kaspersky: http://usa.kaspersky.com/services/free-virus-scanner.php Symantec Security Check: http://www.symantec.com/home_homeoffice/security_response/index.jsp# Good luck. Earl Grey > That we figured. Spybot won't get rid of it and neither will McAfee. > I can't tell where it is coming from. What other programs will get this [quoted text clipped - 29 lines] >>> >>> What else can you suggest I do? |
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