Windsurfer
2007-04-01, 22:34
Hi there, First time poster. I hope I'm posting this in the right section.
For the past few weeks, I have been receiving a few IE pop up ads. They seem to occur whenever applications such as MSN access the internet (but don't trust me on that...). However, they are few and far between. I use the computer about 5 hours a day, and I get maybe 1 pop up every few days.
The pop up is either for a survey site, or buysell.com. I have tried doing a boot-time scan with spybot, but it has found no spyware at all. I tried looking at my ActiveX controls, but Spybot seems to be unable to "see" them. Could it be possible that my Spybot install has been corrupted?
I have tried downloading a fresh copy of Spybot from another computer, as well as the definition files, and installing them, but nothing has changed.
Thanks in advance.
For the past few weeks, I have been receiving a few IE pop up ads. They seem to occur whenever applications such as MSN access the internet (but don't trust me on that...). However, they are few and far between. I use the computer about 5 hours a day, and I get maybe 1 pop up every few days.
The pop up is either for a survey site, or buysell.com. I have tried doing a boot-time scan with spybot, but it has found no spyware at all. I tried looking at my ActiveX controls, but Spybot seems to be unable to "see" them. Could it be possible that my Spybot install has been corrupted?
I have tried downloading a fresh copy of Spybot from another computer, as well as the definition files, and installing them, but nothing has changed.
Thanks in advance.