LIve Girls

[Drew Katsikas]

Ok, this is pissing me off! I saw this shortcut on my desktop for something called live girls, which I've seen on my upstairs comp, too. I think it's some sort of forced download proggy. I deleted it, and now it's fucking back. I have ad-awared my comp twice tonite, trying to get rid of it. Hell, maybe ad-aware's doing it, I have no clue, I don't know much about this shit. Just someone tell me how to stop this bullshit.

[executioneer]

I think I had somethgin like that before

It didn't go away until I formatted and reinstalled windows

-willie

[FS]

A few times when I've visited sites, they managed to put shortcuts on my desktop (yes, porn sites - fuck you), which disturbed me cause it made me wonder just how crappy security on my comp is.

Apparently there's a fairly easy way to just spawn shortcuts on people's desktops without any sort of warning or needed confirmation from the owner. No idea how you can prevent it from happening, but I suggest avoiding whatever special sites (porn, or other) you've recently visited.

[FartinMowler]

stop looking at porn you will go blind

[Stabby]

Download SpyBot: Search and Destroy. http://www.safer-networking.org/

It does a lot more than AdAware and gets rid of most of those annoying trojans too. (Be sure to update it before you run it though).

Reboot and if you still have trouble try running HijackThis, http://www.tomcoyote.org/hjt/ , and sending the log file it creates to a support forum. (or paste it here and I'll look at it but I'm not the best choice) Though SpyBot is pretty hardcore and should take care of the problem.

[BlueOatmeal]

Stabby beat me to it but Spybot is a fantastic spyware program. It pick up a rather nasty keylogger that ad aware didn't find.

[MK IV]

http://www.pestscan.com/Scan.asp

Run it , then manualy delete the stuff displayed , it finds stuff spybot and adaware dont . Really useful if you dont mind messing with your windows regestry files and deleting spyware at the source , which should (hopefully) get rid of that dialler if spybot and adaware didnt catch it.