Computer Issues...Help?

Okay, my computer has been seriously weird for the last few days. For absolutely no reason, it suddenly started to get pop-ups every few minutes. And now, they seem to almost be progressing to porn levels, too...some sort of dating site, with mostly naked women was the pop-up. I didn’t look for more than a second before closing it out. The other pop-ups consist of credit related things, something about a university, and a lot of things about anti-virus software.

I’ve run a scan, and it says it’s a lot of Spy cookies. When I checked the other day, we caught 3 Adwares, some Spyware, (and something that might have been a virus, but Spy Sweeper called it a behavioral--I don't know what that means) and a ton of Spy cookies, so it’s gone down on that front. So I have to come to the conclusion that it’s because of a site I’ve visited lately. However, the only sites I’ve gone to in the last few days are Insanejournal, Livejournal, Scribbld, a brief check over at Greatestjournal, and (for Doctor Who fanfic) A Teaspoon And An Open Mind.

Oh, and Fanfiction.net, when an author I’m following updates, but they’ve never done anything to my computer before. Although, come to think of it, that’s the last site I went to before the whole mess started on Sunday...

Any ideas on what this is, and how to fix it?

Computer Issues...Help?

Okay, my computer has been seriously weird for the last few days. For absolutely no reason, it suddenly started to get pop-ups every few minutes. And now, they seem to almost be progressing to porn levels, too...some sort of dating site, with mostly naked women was the pop-up. I didn’t look for more than a second before closing it out. The other pop-ups consist of credit related things, something about a university, and a lot of things about anti-virus software.

I’ve run a scan, and it says it’s a lot of Spy cookies. When I checked the other day, we caught 3 Adwares, some Spyware, (and something that might have been a virus, but Spy Sweeper called it a behavioral--I don't know what that means) and a ton of Spy cookies, so it’s gone down on that front. So I have to come to the conclusion that it’s because of a site I’ve visited lately. However, the only sites I’ve gone to in the last few days are Insanejournal, Livejournal, Scribbld, a brief check over at Greatestjournal, and (for Doctor Who fanfic) A Teaspoon And An Open Mind.

Oh, and Fanfiction.net, when an author I’m following updates, but they’ve never done anything to my computer before. Although, come to think of it, that’s the last site I went to before the whole mess started on Sunday...

Any ideas on what this is, and how to fix it?

A Couple Of Memes

First, a meme taken from penknife.

Give me one of my own stories, and a timestamp sometime in the future after the end of the story, or sometime in the past before the story started, and I'll write you at least a hundred words of what happened then, whether it's five minutes before the story started or ten years in the future.

You never know. With the right bizarre prompt, maybe I’ll be able to get back on track with the Martha Jones as an Immortal fanfic.

There’s also a OTP meme, located here—you can ship anyone with someone else, whether it’s an LJ user, or fandom character. My comment is here.

A Couple Of Memes

First, a meme taken from penknife.

Give me one of my own stories, and a timestamp sometime in the future after the end of the story, or sometime in the past before the story started, and I'll write you at least a hundred words of what happened then, whether it's five minutes before the story started or ten years in the future.

You never know. With the right bizarre prompt, maybe I’ll be able to get back on track with the Martha Jones as an Immortal fanfic.

There’s also a OTP meme, located here—you can ship anyone with someone else, whether it’s an LJ user, or fandom character. My comment is here.

Update On The Computer

A couple of hours ago, I was going to Wikipedia to look up something, and the pop-ups that keep hitting me hit again. Only this time, they were extremely disgusting porn--and since it was multiple windows that kept opening with worse garbage, I shut down the computer for a little while, and when Dad got home I told him to do something about it. Sidenote: I also told him that even he was too young to see some of that stuff, since he would be traumatized—he ignored the last bit of that and said he was ecstatic that I actually thought he was too young for something for once.

Dad checked, and our virus scanner can’t find anything. We got rid of all the Spy cookies that it found, deleted the recent history folder, and a few other things. Didn’t stop it.

Pop-Up Stopper Professional doesn’t stop them, and just causes them to mess up enough that I have to restart the computer--which happened as I was writing this post the first time around, so I'm rewriting all of this entry from memory.

Webroot Firewall and BlackIce don’t spot anything suspicious at all. If it’s a virus (which Dad and I suspect--that, or a hacker who never sleeps) then it’s so embedded that Spysweeper doesn’t pick it up at all.

And on a slightly happier note, for anyone who cares: the entire series of The Real Ghostbusters is going to be released to DVD this fall. It will be a 26-disc set. I bought the entire series on Ebay a while back, so I doubt I’ll buy it when it comes out.

EDIT: Oh! I looked through Black Ice, and it has a listing for the exact moment that everything started going weird on the computer--7:26 AM, on Sunday morning. Says something about a UPX tool, and then explains that it can be used to pack Trojans. At that time, a Trojan kept trying to do something, and I kept saying I didn't want to accept it, and told the computer to delete it.

Maybe something got in.

Update On The Computer

A couple of hours ago, I was going to Wikipedia to look up something, and the pop-ups that keep hitting me hit again. Only this time, they were extremely disgusting porn--and since it was multiple windows that kept opening with worse garbage, I shut down the computer for a little while, and when Dad got home I told him to do something about it. Sidenote: I also told him that even he was too young to see some of that stuff, since he would be traumatized—he ignored the last bit of that and said he was ecstatic that I actually thought he was too young for something for once.

Dad checked, and our virus scanner can’t find anything. We got rid of all the Spy cookies that it found, deleted the recent history folder, and a few other things. Didn’t stop it.

Pop-Up Stopper Professional doesn’t stop them, and just causes them to mess up enough that I have to restart the computer--which happened as I was writing this post the first time around, so I'm rewriting all of this entry from memory.

Webroot Firewall and BlackIce don’t spot anything suspicious at all. If it’s a virus (which Dad and I suspect--that, or a hacker who never sleeps) then it’s so embedded that Spysweeper doesn’t pick it up at all.

And on a slightly happier note, for anyone who cares: the entire series of The Real Ghostbusters is going to be released to DVD this fall. It will be a 26-disc set. I bought the entire series on Ebay a while back, so I doubt I’ll buy it when it comes out.

EDIT: Oh! I looked through Black Ice, and it has a listing for the exact moment that everything started going weird on the computer--7:26 AM, on Sunday morning. Says something about a UPX tool, and then explains that it can be used to pack Trojans. At that time, a Trojan kept trying to do something, and I kept saying I didn't want to accept it, and told the computer to delete it.

Maybe something got in.