Popup Killer And DNF Toolbar Gone Wild?

[Jaques]

My computer was fine...No ads...And I did have a google popup blocker. Blocked every ad. Then I downloaded the DNF toolbar... :( Get atleast 5 ads a minute?? Whats up with this.... The Popup Killer is on too so i have 2 POPUP BLOCKERS and still they are sifting through...This happning to anyone else? Dont want to acuse DNF of this.

[NETGEEK]

First time I've hard about an issue like this. Anyone else encounter any problems with the toolbar and popup's?

[Jaques]

hmmm its like ad-ware...thoes little security boxes..... Do you want to check your computer for this and that? Never had it before.....Im serious i just downloaded the program and was on this site and about 2 min later...lol...its alright ill find someway to get it off ill try uninstalling the toolbar.

[Jaques]

I was searching my computer and now on the start up there is a thing called "Ad Destroyer" (Stop Popup Ads) Looks like Adware to me. It also says "Trial 3 Days Left" is this the blocker that DNF uses?

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NEW UPDATE::

Now on my desktop these new items appeared somehow!!

They say..


"Second Thought"
"My PC Search"
"Lycos Sidesearch"
"Download Music MP3's"
"Intertainment"
"Online Casino"
"Paid Surveys"
"Bingo"
"Card Games"
"Casino Online"
"Internet"
"Investing"
"Printer Cartrages"
"Travel"
"Website Hosting"

Deleting them but they keep coming back :(

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NEW UPDATE

Homepage set to ProSearching.com or sumin like that.


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New Update.....

ThunkGrey Toolbar Installed?? What I didnt install it...
I cant seem to get rid of it

ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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NEW UPDATE ****IMPORTANT****

Just did a Norton Anti Virus scan. "Virus.Toolbar" found. ( Isnt this an obvios name for a virus lol u think they woulda thought up something a little more sophisticated)

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NEW UPDATE

My "Favorites" are flooded with ads and dirty links This is terrible

[GT Web]

thats bad.......ouch

[NETGEEK]

I'm not sure what or where you visited recently, but I don't think this has has anything to do with the dnf toolbar. Download the free version of ad-aware and hopefully it will kill all any spyware or the like off your PC

http://www.lavasoftusa.com/

[Jaques]

Downloaded.....

My cpu is now REALLY slow....Still have adware and my address bar wont get back to the top of my screen its like its hiding...It says its enabled so I have to click type in DN forum in google toolbar then click DN Forum.com this is crazy!

[hotdog_pk]

download ashampoo winoptimizer. it contains many powerful features including a very powerful and effective popup blockers, also includes a trial program..

the popup blocker is only new in the new version the rest of the progrm features are great too.

i prefer to use Opera though... i get absolutely no popups using it because it has a built in popup blocker

[nicorlino]

did you install any p2p software lately?

[Jaques]

Me??? Nope just the toolbar

[NameTower]

I once went to a site linked off DS

It literally installed all these popups, (i never had any)

when i left my computer on for a few hours, id have 20 popups sitting on my taskbar

it was ridiculous.

adaware did nothing

i wish i remember the link.

[Jaques]

Originally Posted by NameTower

I once went to a site linked off DS

It literally installed all these popups, (i never had any)

when i left my computer on for a few hours, id have 20 popups sitting on my taskbar

it was ridiculous.

adaware did nothing

i wish i remember the link.

EXACLY WHAT IS HAPPENING!! Please find the link...Please PLease

[hotdog_pk]

there are hundreds of these programs.

what you need to do is uninstall the registry entries at startup so they dont start the program that starts the popups. they will be very obvious entries that start programs that have no meaning. i use the program i mentioned before(ashampoo winoptimizer), the trial version does this for you.

the most memorable program that starts itself is purity scan, opened with "pscan.exe", but i have found a lot more.

[seeker]

just ran a test

I had downloaded the toolbar on Feb. 25

Installed it a few minutes ago.

it added a total of 10 reconizable 'spyware' files.

of the 10, 3 were 'malware' and 1, istbar.exe was 'dangerous', according to adaware.

something is definately wrong!

[Jaques]

Originally Posted by seeker

just ran a test

I had downloaded the toolbar on Feb. 25

Installed it a few minutes ago.

it added a total of 10 reconizable 'spyware' files.

of the 10, 3 were 'malware' and 1, istbar.exe was 'dangerous', according to adaware.

something is definately wrong!

I definatly knew that it was the toolbar....And if my conclusion is correct your Windows Explorer Will Run 85% Slower Then Normal...It takes 45 seconds to open up DNForum.com and I have DSL that normally loads in 1-2 seconds

[Jaques]

WHEW!!! Downloaded Ad-Aware 6.0 And The Toolbar And All Its Ads Are Gone.....Just a slight recomendation to stop the toolbar or uninstall it

[NETGEEK]

We are going to check this toolbar issue out ASAP.

[Jaques]

Originally Posted by DNFAdmin

We are going to check this toolbar issue out ASAP.

Thanks alot.....Im kinda scared of it lol

[hotdog_pk]

be afraid.... be very afraid.
there are lots of similar things out there ready to unleash themselves upon you.

[Jaques]

Originally Posted by hotdog_pk

be afraid.... be very afraid.
there are lots of similar things out there ready to unleash themselves upon you.

....figures....what exacly is hiding behind that hotdog stand......grrr im scared!! But really i dont appriciate the DN Forum toolbar doing this to my computer.....if it was that