Randomly my computer will come up with something that looks like an error message saying I have critical errors on my PC. When I hit cancel, it brings up a web page for some software-"Winfixer 2005". Neither ad aware nor Norton Internet security even recognizes a problem. Any ideas? I can take screenshots if necessary.

11/12/2005 10:59:27 AM

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"Full Name: WinFixer TrialWebsearch Type: Foistware Created by: Innovative Marketing, Inc. SG Index: 1 [Explain] Official Description: This program uses clever business tactics to lure the user into buying something that is not necessary. They have 2 versions available to the public, a bought version and a trial version. The trial version, downloaded from freedownloadscenter.com, came bundled with a search bar from WhenU, as well as a free download manager. Comment: This program displays cookies as security threats. This may be true in some situations, but it is not necessary to spend $39.95 to delete them. Internet Explorer does the exact same thing and its free. After you remove the software Winfixer is bundled with, it is no longer a threat. The application will function as it did before with the bundled searchbar from WhenU. "

11/12/2005 11:56:50 AM

yeah that doesn't help

thanks though

11/12/2005 6:29:55 PM

why do you only have ad aware?

11/12/2005 7:01:08 PM

i thought i got that from bearshare but it didnt go away after i deleted it
this shit is getting annoying popping up all the time

11/12/2005 9:13:43 PM

yeah someone should solve this problem

11/14/2005 1:47:29 AM

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"why do you only have ad aware?"

well thats pretty much step one

11/14/2005 2:04:18 AM

I had some problems with that on a faculty member's laptop. I had finished cleaning out Win AntiVirus Pro 2006 or whatever the hell it was and also run scans from Spybot and MSAS, but the WinFixer ad kept popping up whenever I would go to a MS-related website.

I realized after a minute or two that the IE pop-up blocker was turned off, so I activated that, and I also did a search in the registry for winfixer...found one key, deleted it.

I had to give the laptop back pretty soon after that, so couldn't thoroughly test to see if it got rid of the winfixer popups. From what I could tell they seemed to have stopped.

11/14/2005 2:23:49 PM

hey i had some problems with this a while back...look at this thread for the answers they gave because it worked.

http://www.thewolfweb.com/message_topic.aspx?topic=353528

11/14/2005 3:41:47 PM