Okay, I'm having an annoying problem. I use Mozilla Firefox, and its fine. However, all of a sudden (this happens infrequently, sometimes just 1, sometimes several) a pop-up like ad will COME up in Internet Explorer. It isn't always a pop-up ad, sometimes the internet explorer window will just appear and in the url bar will be some internet address that doesn't exist (an error always pops up).

Here is one example of a pop-up 'ad':

http://www.militarybyowner.com/Find_A_Home/California/californiarealestate.htm


I've tried to uninstall IE, but I can't seem to. I've done tests with AVG and there are no viruses or anything like that. I checked Internet Explorer, and pop-up blocker is on High, with no exceptions allowed.

Can anyone offer any solutions?Does this HAPPEN even when IE is not open?
List all your protection programs, it sounds like you're infected.I never use IE, so I'm pretty sure its not open before it happens (its not on the list of processes)

Right now, the only program I use for getting rid of viruses is AVG. As for protection, I have the normals Windows security center stuff (Firewall, automatic updates, and virus protection is all on).

I think you might be right though, as yesterday I used AVG to get rid of a lot of viruses (Trojan horse) and as I do the scan today, they seem to be reappearing. The test isn't complete yet, but here is the information for the two viruses AVG found (It found them yesterday and healed them, but they appear again today)


hjmhmmfo.exe - Trojan horse Generic5.CF - C:\Documents and Settings\HP_Administrater\Local Settings\Temp\hjmhmmfo.exe

yodxgqna.exe - Trojan horse Collected.11.B - C:\Documents and Settings\HP_Administrater\Local Settings\Temp\yodxgqna.exe

Last night, all the viruses seemed to be in the same place (C:\Documents and Settings\HP_Administrater\Local Settings\Temp\)


Sorry for the delayed REPLY, I was typing one and then realised I needed some food.
Get Adaware 2007, Spybot SEARCH & Destroy, and AVG Anti-Spyware.
Download, install and update them.
Then boot into safe mode by tapping F8 before Windows loads, and run full scans with all those programs and AVG.
Remove anything they find.
Then boot back into normal mode, and post a HijackThis log here, or attach it to a post if you like.
All these programs can be found here, please note that Ewido is now known as AVG Anti-Spyware and Adaware SE as Adaware 2007.
They are also all free.

Important: before doing this, turn system restore off. Control Panel - System - System restore - check the box to turn it off,a nd do it for all drives and partitions if you have more than one.Dad told me 2 or 3 days ago to get anti-virus thing 'search and destroy', (which has been said on here) but also to make sure it was version 1.4 (just something to consider)That's the only version I have seen AROUND, other than beta 1.5.
If you get it from their site or a reputable source, you will always get the latest version.