Odd Computer Issue. Comp Savvy folk take a gander

[naturally anabolic]

have recieved several times a message in the upper left corner of my Internet Explorer.... "Hack and Spy by such and such" and i dont know what the hell to make of it, im concerned this machine has been comprimised by a trojan or spyware....anyone know anything about this thing?

 

[HumorMe]

I told you about visiting those porn sites!

 

[naturally anabolic]

bumpity to keep it up in sight.

 

[naturally anabolic]

bump...anyone anyone?

 

[Norman Bates]

Have you already downloaded a trojan killer?
Do you watch your registry?
Did you look what programs are running in the background of the system?

 

[naturally anabolic]

I ran PestPatrol as well as Adaware and they came up real lean on things, mainly cookies and a single registry entry called Alexa, got rid of all of them, I ran Nortons 03 with the latest updates and it came up negative for anything.

i dont watch my registry, what should i look for?

i did but i didnt see anything running out of the ordinary.

 

[2Thick]

Your PC is possessed by the DEVIL!!!!

 

[daemon]

Is it a dialog box or in the actual title header where it usually says the name of the site?

Besides running adaware which you've already done, do a windows update, make sure file sharing is off, maybe go get scanned at grc.com. Shit like that.

 

[Norman Bates]

Some people run programs that watch the registry, so they know when some unwanted program installs itself.
There should be some people here that know more about it than i do.

Until then , the cleaner was recommended to me once, it can be downloaded for free from www.moosoft.com .

 

[naturally anabolic]

it was within the box, it looked like Text right ontop of IE which stated "Hack and Spy by Optix" or something to that effect....oddest thing i have ever seen

 

[XBiker]

I ran a few searches and it's pretty likely that your system has been comprimised by a trojan horse.

Follow Mr. Bates' advice and check out www.moosoft.com

 

[Norman Bates]

did the box look like that?

 

[naturally anabolic]

nope it was simple transparent text on top of IE which stated Hack and spy by optix or something like that. I can make a graphical representation if you would like a better picture,

 

[Big Johnson]

Reinstall IE.

 

[Norman Bates]

There is a way to send advertisement-messages to a wide range of ip - adresses. If you don´t find a trojan it might be that.
I know an instruction on how to disable that, but it is in German
do you have windows xp or 98?

 

[naturally anabolic]

xp home

 

[Norman Bates]

Ok, i don´t know the correct English terms for the different buttons, but we can give it a try, i guess they have the same icons as they have in German.
first press start

until you reach:

here you have to find something called windows messenger or messenger. Here you click on attributes (or whatever it is called).
In the box where you will get you should be able to disable the thing.

 

[naturally anabolic]

it was within the box, it looked like Text right ontop of IE which stated "Hack and Spy by Optix" or something to that effect....oddest thing i have ever seen

this is a crude representation

 

[Norman Bates]

If it is neither a trojan nor the windows messenger, i don´t know what it is. Did the cleaner find something?

 

[BBJ]

good luck with the german....be careful not to do more harm than good.

 

[naturally anabolic]

so far i have run the following
Pestpatrol
Nortons Antivirus 2003
Pcflack.com online trojan check
SpyBot seek and destroy
The Cleaner
Ad-Aware

all have come up negative for anything

 

[Norman Bates]

Here is the same descrition in English, you could try that.
Personally, i never had that problem and can´t tell if that is the problem.

http://www.stopmessengerspam.com/windows_xp/windows_xp.html