Please Help!!

Recently, I have been receiving these pop-ups that appear while I leave my computer on for long periods of time due to my dvd burning. It's the same pop-ups every time, they're from "My Daily Horoscope" or something like that. It installs itself into my hard drive even when I try to add it to my pop-up blocker exclusions lists and after uninstalling the program. Is there some sort of virus attacking my computer? It's starting to become a real hassle. I've tried deleting and uninstalling the program, but it keeps coming back. Any help and/or advise will be apprecitated.

Thanks,
a6r2c3

 

Hi a6r2c3...

First of all edit your post and change your title to something like "Adware problems" or "Adware popup problems ". Just putting "Please Help!!" wont get other BBS'ers to look at your post.

Secondly follow these directions...

Download and run the latest version of CWShredder from this link. Make sure you have closed all windows before runing program. Start program...Click Fix.

If you are not running the latest versions of Ad-aware SE and Spybot 1.3 you should do so. You can download the latest versions from the following links below and make sure you update before running programs...
Ad-Aware SE Personal
Sptbot 1.3 - Tutorial can be found here. Only put checkmark on entries highlighted in RED.

You should also run an "Online" virus and Trojan scan...I have added some links for those also...
RAV - AV Scanner
Panda - AV Scanner
Trojan Scan - Trojan scanner

After completing all scans download HijackThis to a folder on your hard drive. Call the folder, for example, C:\HJT. To post a log => Run the program => Click on "Scan" button => After scan complete click on "Save log" button = > Choose the C:\HJT folder for the save location => Notepad should open => Copy and paste contents into a new post. NOTE: Do not fix anything until someone experienced with the logs advises you to.