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Banners from this website RAPED my computer.
More specifically that friend-finder.com banner. It has changed my homepage the last couple of times I've come to this website, but I haven't really done anything about it except change my homepage back after visiting ffxio.
Until today. It turns out I forgot to change my homepage back last night after visiting ffxio and when I opened my browser this morning, I was instantly SWAMPED with pop ups and a bunch of other assorted garbage. Apparently the 1000000 pop ups that opened up installed 100000000000 bonzi buddy type spyware programs on to my computer, effectively rendering my computer useless. After several minutes of ending processes and closing windows through the task manager, I finally managed get to a point where I could open ad-aware, and hopefully get rid of all the garbage once and for all. Boy was I ever wrong.
Ad-aware found something like 500 spyware programs sitting on my computer, which I removed. After removing said spyware, ad-aware informs me that there are several running processes which it cannot end until I restart, so I restarted the computer and ad-aware closed those programs when Windows restarted.
Case closed, right? Not by a long shot. After running ad-aware, I felt it was safe to try to delete all the crap that had been installed on my computer. First I tried to do it via the add/remove programs uninstallers in the control panel, but unfortunately the uninstallers themselves proceeded to install even more programs onto my computer. So then I tried to manually delete each individual folder containing the offending programs. It didn't work because they all had a running process attached to them. So I ran ad-aware again, restarted, had ad-aware close the processes, and tried to delete the programs again. Still no dice. After a while, the random pop ups start coming back, so I tried running ad-aware yet again....only to find out that ad-aware HAD BEEN DELETED! I turned off my computer in disgust and now I'm writing this from another computer in my house.
My purpose in making this post was not to bitch out the people who run ffxio.com, because I understand that it's hard to find advertisers to support your website and sometimes you just have to take whatever comes your way, regardless of whether or not said advertiser is reputable or not. The main reason I posted this was 1) to warn other people and 2) to ask for help. I honestly have no idea what to do at this point. My computer is completely crippled, I cannot do anything without having roughly one pop up come up every minute or so. If I try to open my browser, I get a continuous stream of non stop pop ups until my computer crashes. I'm going to try to reinstall ad-aware, but I seriously doubt it's going to be any more use this time than it was the first time around.
PLEASE HELP ME ; ;
Until today. It turns out I forgot to change my homepage back last night after visiting ffxio and when I opened my browser this morning, I was instantly SWAMPED with pop ups and a bunch of other assorted garbage. Apparently the 1000000 pop ups that opened up installed 100000000000 bonzi buddy type spyware programs on to my computer, effectively rendering my computer useless. After several minutes of ending processes and closing windows through the task manager, I finally managed get to a point where I could open ad-aware, and hopefully get rid of all the garbage once and for all. Boy was I ever wrong.
Ad-aware found something like 500 spyware programs sitting on my computer, which I removed. After removing said spyware, ad-aware informs me that there are several running processes which it cannot end until I restart, so I restarted the computer and ad-aware closed those programs when Windows restarted.
Case closed, right? Not by a long shot. After running ad-aware, I felt it was safe to try to delete all the crap that had been installed on my computer. First I tried to do it via the add/remove programs uninstallers in the control panel, but unfortunately the uninstallers themselves proceeded to install even more programs onto my computer. So then I tried to manually delete each individual folder containing the offending programs. It didn't work because they all had a running process attached to them. So I ran ad-aware again, restarted, had ad-aware close the processes, and tried to delete the programs again. Still no dice. After a while, the random pop ups start coming back, so I tried running ad-aware yet again....only to find out that ad-aware HAD BEEN DELETED! I turned off my computer in disgust and now I'm writing this from another computer in my house.
My purpose in making this post was not to bitch out the people who run ffxio.com, because I understand that it's hard to find advertisers to support your website and sometimes you just have to take whatever comes your way, regardless of whether or not said advertiser is reputable or not. The main reason I posted this was 1) to warn other people and 2) to ask for help. I honestly have no idea what to do at this point. My computer is completely crippled, I cannot do anything without having roughly one pop up come up every minute or so. If I try to open my browser, I get a continuous stream of non stop pop ups until my computer crashes. I'm going to try to reinstall ad-aware, but I seriously doubt it's going to be any more use this time than it was the first time around.
PLEASE HELP ME ; ;
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