I can't help you with the virus, but what browser do you use? If you use IE, STOP. Use another browser. Firefox or something. It will stop the pop ups almost completely, and the ones that do get through, pop up behind the main window. Sorry about the trojan. Did you empty you trash can? You might have to delete from the registry. Spybot usually shows the registry path. m :(
But these pop-ups are not from websites. It's not like when you go to a website and it gives you a pop-up. They're like, backdoor things. I cannot explain. I'm sorry.
The pop-ups aren't coming from a website. I mean, they don't happen when I click on a website. They're getting in through a backdoor somehow, last year or 2 years ago I had the same problem (with the pop-ups, not trojan horses) and someone here helped me to fix it, but that was before tagging and I have no idea where that post is.
You've gotten good advice here on how to get rid of them. Let me ad, GET RID OF IE! Even though you you think theser aren't coming from websites IE is a target and it far more likely to allow you to get viruses. Use Firefox. Also, you don't mention a firewall. Are you using one? You might want to. In addition to a software firewall you can also put your computer behind a router, even if you don't want to set up a netowrk. That can help.
My thinking was that the first ones opened up some kind of way for others to get in. But of course, I'm probably talking out of my ass. I do know exactly where the first five came from -- Myspace. I was looking at Jeff Vezain's Myspace (he's the singer from the Lt. Dan Band) and he has music that automatically plays when you go to his page, and BOOM - *five* trojan horses. I isolated all of those with the virus scanner, but since them I was getting all these 'behind the scenes' pop-ups either advertising casinos or wanting me to download something. One of those was the ipwins.exe thing that I did *not* actively download, but that somehow ended up on my computer anyway. And then I got two more trojans yesterday.
Computers just make me want to cry. Seriously. I have so much respect for you people that work with them everyday and actually understand them!
And okay, I will get firefox. Y'all have convinced me. :)
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Good idea, mdlaw. :) Firefox has a lot of plugins just for stopping adware and popups and it's almost effortless to use.
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Gonna cry now.
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Computers just make me want to cry. Seriously. I have so much respect for you people that work with them everyday and actually understand them!
And okay, I will get firefox. Y'all have convinced me. :)
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