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Persistent "bad URL" mess

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Name: LinZ
Date: March 31, 2008 at 14:23:59 Pacific
OS: Windows XP
CPU/Ram: 1.31 GHz; 1 GB RAM
Product: Dell Inspiron 9300
Comment:

Over the last month, I've armed my computer with about half a dozen different anti-spyware/adware/virus/malware programs, and I have to assume they have been doing their jobs because I have not gotten any error messages telling me my computer is infected for quite a while.

My problem, however, is with a certain web source that continuously pops up. SpyBot Bad URL Blocker will alert me to this, and even after I deny my computer access to this URL, the alert window keeps popping up for the exact same address. In one hour, I denied access to this URL over 100 times. Now, I just leave that pop-up window behind my open windows because it is exceedingly irritating to have it pop up every few seconds.

I also get other warnings that pop up more than once, such as for "Advertising.com" and something called "TagASaurus", but only when I visit certain sites. The error message I described previously pops up whenever I am connected to the internet.

The URL in question is identified as "ZQest.K8L" and the URL is:
http://ads.k8l.info/media/servlet/v...

My question is: Why doesn't my computer seem to understand that I do not want to access this malicious URL and why does it proceed to ask me about it over and over again? Is there any way I can make this stop?

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Response Number 1
Name: Abnormal
Date: March 31, 2008 at 16:38:19 Pacific
Reply:

You need to block all pages silently.

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tut...


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Response Number 2
Name: Adii
Date: March 31, 2008 at 22:08:15 Pacific
Reply:

You have Adwares infection into your PC.

Download the "HijackThis" Installer from this link:

http://www.trendsecure.com/portal/e...


1. Save " HJTInstall.exe" to your desktop.
2. Double click on HJTInstall.exe to run the program.
3. By default it will install to C:\Program Files\Trend Micro\HijackThis.
4. Accept the license agreement by clicking the "I Accept" button.
5.Click on the "Do a system scan and save a log file" button. It will scan and then ask you to save the log.
6. Click "Save log" to save the log file and then the log will open in Notepad.
7. Click on "Edit > Select All" then click on "Edit > Copy" to copy the entire contents of the log.
8. Paste the log in your next reply.
9. Do NOT have HijackThis fix anything yet! Most of what it finds will be harmless or even required.

Post Hijackthis Log in your next reply.

*Do Safe Computing*


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