Search Engine Evilness

[Evermore]

Watch out for this

[Narrock]

Microsoft has done that to my computer. Every time I navigate around (even here on the NT) I keep getting a popup that says "Your system may be infected with a trojan virus. Click here to remove it." When you click the link they provide, you get a popup screen from "ie windows defender" wanting you to pay for a license to remove malware from your system. I tried to get rid of this popup with two malware removers (Spybot search & destroy, and XoftSpy) but neither of them are removing this popup. Spybot even cleaned out my registry, but it's still there.

[Evermore]

thats not microsoft. there is a new Trojan out that uses the microsoft GUI to get you to click on their ads.

[Evermore]

Trend Micro will remove it but use the free on line scan.

[Narrock]

Thanks Evermore. I just did a rescan using XoftSpy, and it removed it this time. What happened was when I ran the scan using Spybot, it found the malware I just talked about and asked me if I wanted to allow or deny the "change." I clicked "deny" which basically left it alone (unbeknownst to me at the time). I just ran XoftSpy a minute ago, and it found it and removed it. Then I got a popup from Spybot saying that a change was made to my registry by XoftSpy... allow or deny this change? So I clicked "allow" and now it's gone. lol

[Arlos]

Yeah, the amount of negative flack MS would take if they themselves put pop-up ads like that on people's PCs is so massive that there is no way it could ever be remotely cost-effective. So, as a result, they are about the LEAST likely company every to do any such thing.

-Arlos

[Lyion]

No popups, just huge embedded spyware.

Fuck MS Genuine Advantage software updater installs that calls home to MS from most PCs.

MS is the worst company for that kind of garbage.

[Tossica]

No popups, just huge embedded spyware.

Fuck MS Genuine Advantage software updater installs that calls home to MS from most PCs.

MS is the worst company for that kind of garbage.

Don't use it. There are good viable alternatives.