What's wrong with my internet?

[Azier the Swordsman]

A lot of weird things have been happening with my internet for quite a while...

For one, my popup blocker isn't working for certain popups, (I keep getting the exact same ones all the time). Second, images in certain websites are replaced with advertisements. (Including my Photobucket account). Third, hyperlinks will NOT work if I click on them. I also noticed that I cannot submit reviews on fanfiction.net, which I highly suspect is realted with the hyperlink problem. My internet used to never do this before, and I have not switched computers before this started happening.

[Straylight]

Sounds like you have some crap on your machine.. get ad aware and scan your box. Are you using IE? You might well have a browser hijacker lurking in there somewhere. Adaware is able to remove hijackers but occasionally the browser can be completely fubared.

There's also http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/

[HeavensTek]

run adaware.....you can find a free download of it just about anywhere

it kinda sounds like you got something like purityscan going on.....check for hidden processes running in the backround. certian scumware is near impossible to remove without pulling a safemode purge.... =/

[ThaKladd]

reminds me of a windows 2000 problem they had at my school... dont know how to fix it, but probably adaware should remove it..

[lobsterbucket]

spybot is good too. I use that and adaware. I feel your pain man...

[AZheng]

I'd use Ad-Aware, and be sure before you scan to get the latest definitions file (click on the little globe icon at the top-right). Spybot S&D doesn't seem to have updated definitions...

[Bobtheduck]

Spybot has updates... It's under the "online" tab.

[glitch1501]

spybot definatly updates the definitions

[Lynx]

i'd definatly go for ad-aware

[Bobtheduck]

BTW, there are spyware that can evade spybot... You may have to do some research... Look up the sites it takes you to, and see what hijackers link to those sites, then you may have to manually delete some stuff in safe mode... That's what I had to do... This piece of spyware managed to keep itself in my memory (my computer would lock down when I tried to close it) and kept reinstalling MORE SPYWARE! There is a name for that, oh yes! Virus. Only, it's not self-replicating, but it replicates other software... It created a gateway that superceded my security and downloaded software and ran it without my permission... Thing was, I couldn't do a thing about it, and despite my security settings, it came on pop-ups... It completely destroyed my Media Player, and I had to delete it and install it again... The funniest piece of spyware was the supposed "Spyware killer" that demanded I use it to clear my system of spyware, but then said I had to pay 40 bucks for it to clean my system out... It changed my homepage, added 135+ links to my favorites, and put links on my desktop, all when spybot was supposed to be guarding against future spyware... Obviously it was a virus or some other sort of more dangerous software, and not just a spyware, but I don't know how it got in when I don't allow active x programs to be downloaded and no programs are to be opened without my permission... It completely replaced media player with a replication thing... Man, was that annoying... Took me over an hour, maybe 2, to get the thing cleaned out...

I'm installing firefox now... Internet Explorer is too much of a pain. Goodbye, old chap, you have served me well when you weren't gettin beat up by internet scum...

[Mithrandir]

*chants*

Join into the Chosen!


(That's a gamer joke that about 3 people on the planet will probably get.)

[madphilb]

I was thinking that it was a System Shock (2?) thing, but that was the "Many" I believe.