All Out of Ideas, In Need of Some Help
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Unless CP has started serving up more ads, I think I have a virus or at the very least malware. For the last two days I've been seeing extra ads below the 'Last Updated' and 'All Rights Reserved' line normally the last thing at the bottom of the page. They are always one of two formats. * Three banner ads stacked vertically. * Four square ads aligned hoizontally. The source for these ads is always cdn3.jsresource and each ad is inside its own iframe. This only happens on my home PC, never at work, on our tablets or on the wife's laptop. I've tried the following in an attempt to detect anc remove whatever is causing the extra ads - Firebug shows there are over 200 extra calls happening when the ads appear. * Kapersky, has been running for more than a year, nothing found. * Malwarebytes, found one malware and removed, can't remember which. * Spybot, found a few tracking cookies, but nothing major. * Ad-Aware, found one biggie, END, and more low risk cookies, etc. * HijackThis, I didn't notice anything odd except for an entry for Ask, which was pointing to a no longer existing location and a couple of BHO, all of which I had it fix. At this point I have no other ideas on what to attempt except for possibly upgrading to Windows 10 and doing a backup and clean install. Seems a bit extreme to me, but I may not have any other choice. If anyone has any ideas that I haven't thought of, I would be most appreciative.
"...JavaScript could teach Dyson how to suck." -- Nagy Vilmos
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Unless CP has started serving up more ads, I think I have a virus or at the very least malware. For the last two days I've been seeing extra ads below the 'Last Updated' and 'All Rights Reserved' line normally the last thing at the bottom of the page. They are always one of two formats. * Three banner ads stacked vertically. * Four square ads aligned hoizontally. The source for these ads is always cdn3.jsresource and each ad is inside its own iframe. This only happens on my home PC, never at work, on our tablets or on the wife's laptop. I've tried the following in an attempt to detect anc remove whatever is causing the extra ads - Firebug shows there are over 200 extra calls happening when the ads appear. * Kapersky, has been running for more than a year, nothing found. * Malwarebytes, found one malware and removed, can't remember which. * Spybot, found a few tracking cookies, but nothing major. * Ad-Aware, found one biggie, END, and more low risk cookies, etc. * HijackThis, I didn't notice anything odd except for an entry for Ask, which was pointing to a no longer existing location and a couple of BHO, all of which I had it fix. At this point I have no other ideas on what to attempt except for possibly upgrading to Windows 10 and doing a backup and clean install. Seems a bit extreme to me, but I may not have any other choice. If anyone has any ideas that I haven't thought of, I would be most appreciative.
"...JavaScript could teach Dyson how to suck." -- Nagy Vilmos
Go to BleepingComputer.com[^], click on Downloads and go to Page 5. Once there download TDSSKiller, Junkware Removal Tool and AdwCleaner. Run them in that order and after the reboot see if anything is still there. If so remove any extension you don't know and you should be all good.
Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Unless CP has started serving up more ads, I think I have a virus or at the very least malware. For the last two days I've been seeing extra ads below the 'Last Updated' and 'All Rights Reserved' line normally the last thing at the bottom of the page. They are always one of two formats. * Three banner ads stacked vertically. * Four square ads aligned hoizontally. The source for these ads is always cdn3.jsresource and each ad is inside its own iframe. This only happens on my home PC, never at work, on our tablets or on the wife's laptop. I've tried the following in an attempt to detect anc remove whatever is causing the extra ads - Firebug shows there are over 200 extra calls happening when the ads appear. * Kapersky, has been running for more than a year, nothing found. * Malwarebytes, found one malware and removed, can't remember which. * Spybot, found a few tracking cookies, but nothing major. * Ad-Aware, found one biggie, END, and more low risk cookies, etc. * HijackThis, I didn't notice anything odd except for an entry for Ask, which was pointing to a no longer existing location and a couple of BHO, all of which I had it fix. At this point I have no other ideas on what to attempt except for possibly upgrading to Windows 10 and doing a backup and clean install. Seems a bit extreme to me, but I may not have any other choice. If anyone has any ideas that I haven't thought of, I would be most appreciative.
"...JavaScript could teach Dyson how to suck." -- Nagy Vilmos
Here's[^] another possibility, even if I don't really believe it, since your wifes computer isn't affected
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
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What you can try is to create another user account on your computer, and test with that new account if you still have the problem. If you don't, then just save your documents, delete your faulty user profile, and create a new one. If you do, then I do not have any other idea than reinstalling your whole OS. Good luck :)
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phil.o wrote:
reinstalling your whole OS.
Because of some ads? :wtf: Seems a tad extreme. Effective though, I'm sure. :-D
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
If the problem is OS-based, not profile-based, and the user cannot find the offensive bits, then yes, unfortunately, reinstalling the OS may be quicker than trying to find the problem. In my work I'm often presented with this kind of issue; I prefer spending two hours reinstalling the OS rather than four hours searching in the registry and file system :)
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You could just allow the ads on CP. This is how the site gets its money so it can offer you what it has to offer.
I'd rather be phishing!
But if the ads are being injected by malware, or a crap ISP, then CodeProject won't get any revenue from them.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer
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Unless CP has started serving up more ads, I think I have a virus or at the very least malware. For the last two days I've been seeing extra ads below the 'Last Updated' and 'All Rights Reserved' line normally the last thing at the bottom of the page. They are always one of two formats. * Three banner ads stacked vertically. * Four square ads aligned hoizontally. The source for these ads is always cdn3.jsresource and each ad is inside its own iframe. This only happens on my home PC, never at work, on our tablets or on the wife's laptop. I've tried the following in an attempt to detect anc remove whatever is causing the extra ads - Firebug shows there are over 200 extra calls happening when the ads appear. * Kapersky, has been running for more than a year, nothing found. * Malwarebytes, found one malware and removed, can't remember which. * Spybot, found a few tracking cookies, but nothing major. * Ad-Aware, found one biggie, END, and more low risk cookies, etc. * HijackThis, I didn't notice anything odd except for an entry for Ask, which was pointing to a no longer existing location and a couple of BHO, all of which I had it fix. At this point I have no other ideas on what to attempt except for possibly upgrading to Windows 10 and doing a backup and clean install. Seems a bit extreme to me, but I may not have any other choice. If anyone has any ideas that I haven't thought of, I would be most appreciative.
"...JavaScript could teach Dyson how to suck." -- Nagy Vilmos
AdwCleaner then Delete you temporary internet files - this is the big one as it will force your pc to fetch "clean" pages from cp and not the cache where the scripts be embedded.
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Do you get them on all browsers? If not, check your extensions.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
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Go to BleepingComputer.com[^], click on Downloads and go to Page 5. Once there download TDSSKiller, Junkware Removal Tool and AdwCleaner. Run them in that order and after the reboot see if anything is still there. If so remove any extension you don't know and you should be all good.
Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
I'll definitely give this a try tonight. During my searches I had seen a couple of hits for BleepingComputer, but as they were at least six years old hadn't really given it much weight. The only extension I have added to Firefox is Firebug. And I've never installed extensions or add-ons in the other browsers, but I may have to disable or uninstall them anyway to get to the bottom of this. Besides, the virus itself may have install one.
"...JavaScript could teach Dyson how to suck." -- Nagy Vilmos
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Unless CP has started serving up more ads, I think I have a virus or at the very least malware. For the last two days I've been seeing extra ads below the 'Last Updated' and 'All Rights Reserved' line normally the last thing at the bottom of the page. They are always one of two formats. * Three banner ads stacked vertically. * Four square ads aligned hoizontally. The source for these ads is always cdn3.jsresource and each ad is inside its own iframe. This only happens on my home PC, never at work, on our tablets or on the wife's laptop. I've tried the following in an attempt to detect anc remove whatever is causing the extra ads - Firebug shows there are over 200 extra calls happening when the ads appear. * Kapersky, has been running for more than a year, nothing found. * Malwarebytes, found one malware and removed, can't remember which. * Spybot, found a few tracking cookies, but nothing major. * Ad-Aware, found one biggie, END, and more low risk cookies, etc. * HijackThis, I didn't notice anything odd except for an entry for Ask, which was pointing to a no longer existing location and a couple of BHO, all of which I had it fix. At this point I have no other ideas on what to attempt except for possibly upgrading to Windows 10 and doing a backup and clean install. Seems a bit extreme to me, but I may not have any other choice. If anyone has any ideas that I haven't thought of, I would be most appreciative.
"...JavaScript could teach Dyson how to suck." -- Nagy Vilmos
