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02.11.2008 at 06:30PM PST, ID: 23155029
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Something Causing IE Popups

Asked by Harry_Truman in Spyware / Ad Blockers, Web Browsers, Windows XP Operating System

So a few weeks ago I messed up and tried to install a torrented program that had a bogus keygen.  Setting aside the fact that I'm an idiot for falling into such an obvious trap, I now have something opening Internet Explorer windows to ad sites.  I've disabled access to IE from my firewall so it just pops up blank windows, but it still pops them up every minute or so -- but only after I navigate to a new page.  When my computer idles nothing gets opened; only when I'm already browsing.  It's also apparently causing Windows time to be ahead by 5 hours...

I've ran HijackThis and ComboFix, neither are reporting anything that I can see as the source of the problem.  I've used process viewers to check out what's currently running, nothing seems out of place.  AVG isn't finding any infected files after multiple scans and both Ad-Aware and Spybot both find nothing.  I'm at a loss now.

I've attached the HijackThis and ComboFix logs in case anyone wants to have a look at them.  I'm Running XP Pro, SP2, etc...Start Free Trial
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hijackthis.log (5 KB) (File Type Details) 
HijackThis log
 
 
combofix.txt (11 KB) (File Type Details) 
ComboFix log
 
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