March 03, 2004

What the fuck is this crud? I need some help, ya'll

For some reason, here lately, ever'time I am unable to connect to some site, instead of gettin' a 404 page, I find myself loadin' http://search.dr.shopnav.c[and on and on with all kinds of further redirection crud or whatnot which I really don't want to display] which, in turn, begins throwin' popups all over the damn place. I am sure I loaded somethin' somewhere that changed somethin' but I done did a complete virus and Ad-Aware scan and neither found anythin' troublesome ... but it is definitely troublesome to me. Anyone know what I need to delete or reconfigure so as to return to regulation 404 pages?

Posted by notGeorge at March 3, 2004 08:21 AM
Comments

I'll bet it's SpyWiper. You can probably Google® it and get some good suggestions.

Posted by: McGehee at March 3, 2004 09:07 AM

I've been getting that on my work computer. The popups when I try to get out of it are really pissing me off.

Posted by: Jennifer at March 3, 2004 10:16 AM

Had that problem; it was some spy stuff that came along with something the kids downloaded. If your operating system will allow you to roll things back to when you didn't have the problem (i.e. Windows XP) that might do the trick.

Posted by: Evan Schaeffer at March 3, 2004 05:23 PM

I did a bit of searchin' and most of the crap I found had more steps than I could keep up with, but I did exactly what Evan suggested and that worked.

Posted by: Tiger at March 3, 2004 07:38 PM