Yay! Popups that Ask Me to Download Stuff!

[Amesjustin]

Originally posted by Lefty Scaevola
Yeah, and if you did not have download active x set to disable or prompt, you would not even get the oportunity to say no to the GD Xupiter crap.

This happened on my work computer - I had no idea what had happened until I came across this thread. Now how do I uninstall this crap?

[Caesar the Great]

is there pornography on your computer?

well no ****!

[The Pioneer]

I just checked in after a few days of absence and I'll like to say thanks to Dan and Mark for their attention on this matter. Once again


So long...

[MarkG]

UPDATE

We have enabled ads from our provider again, after being assured by them that the advertiser(which as i guessed had changed the advertised link from the aprroved) has been removed by their network.

Please let us know if this or a similar problem comes up again

[Harovan]

It's already back. Guess this advertiser can't be trusted.

New screenshot (looks a lot like the old):

[MarkG]

hmm please do me a favor

check the history tab on your ie
and tell me the url of from www.paypop.com or www1.paypop.com that show up there

if you deleted your history or something like that, visit http://apolyton.net/ads/paypopup.php to get a popup...

thanks

[Harovan]

http://www4.paypopup.com/loading.php?id=apolyton&pop=enter&t=5&subid=3449&tid=1039604341&ref=http%3A//apolyton.net/counter.php%3Fpage%3DForums%26group%3D2

http://www4.paypopup.com/loading.php?id=apolyton&pop=enter&t=5&subid=3449&tid=1039606032&ref=http%3A//apolyton.net/ads/paypopup.php

Hope it helps.

[MarkG]

many thanks
i'll contact them again

meanwhile, i've put some code to not show any popups from this service if you're coming from Germany

let me know if you get the popup again

[Lefty Scaevola]

Originally posted by Amesjustin
This happened on my work computer - I had no idea what had happened until I came across this thread. Now how do I uninstall this crap?

When I uninstalled it from my wife's machine by Xupiter's own uninstall link, it trashed the registry. The "Ad Aware" ad washer (updated to the Sept? or Oct/ 2002 version, the June02 version will not do Xupiter or Hunt bar)) program from lavasoft.de will safely remove it.

[Dis]

mother****er

I accidently hit yes on that. My computer is nearly non-functional now. I cannot access my computer. my window explorer is having all sorts of problems.

Looks like a hard drive reformat for me. Thanks apolyon.

[Dis]

OK I cannot access my computer. And using my start menu I cannot access the control panel.

I need to back up my files onto my second hard drive. Any ideas how to do that without being able to transfer files with my computer?

I need to transfer many files to my D drive. I know I can do that with DOS. And I had to do that after my hard drive got corrupted before. But I can't remember exactly how to do that. It looks like DOS is my only hope of saving my files.

[DaveV]

Dissident,

The DOS command "XCOPY -S C:\WINDOWS D:\CWINDOWS" will copy the windows directory and all of its subdirectories to the D drive. Or you could do "CD C:\" and then "XCOPY -S C: d:\CBACKUP" to copy the entire C drive to the D drive (assuming you have enough space).

[Harovan]

Just to reinstall Windows over the old installation may help too. When installing Windows without reformatting the hard drive, it doesn't delete any of your presonal files. Unless you have hidden your porn in C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32, that is .

I generally can't imagine how this dialer can screw up a system that badly. It usually changes only your default internet connection to a premium service dialin, which can't hurt you, because it works only in Germany.

[MarkG]

update:

the latest news is that they found a second client of theirs running the same campaign. it has been removed as well

we havent removed our filter for german visitors though but any kind people are welcome to try out this page

http://apolyton.net/ads/paypopup.php

beyond that, if we have any detailed reports showing that an ad shown from a company that we cooperate with, we will act upon them instantly

[Lefty Scaevola]

Originally posted by Sir Ralph
I generally can't imagine how this dialer can screw up a system that badly. It usually changes only your default internet connection to a premium service dialin, which can't hurt you, because it works only in Germany.

I think he is talking about the Xupiter advertising tool bar.