terrierjohn Posted January 31, 2015 #1 Share Posted January 31, 2015 Has anyone else noticed a sudden increase in messy adverts popping up all over the place and new pages opening on CC, or is it just my PC thats acting up??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaththeTaff Posted January 31, 2015 #2 Share Posted January 31, 2015 I haven't noticed anything different. DH suggests you adjust your ad blocker (it doesn't mean much to me, but that's what he said!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richleeds Posted January 31, 2015 #3 Share Posted January 31, 2015 No change here either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Presto2 Posted January 31, 2015 #4 Share Posted January 31, 2015 No problem here either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dorsetlad Posted January 31, 2015 #5 Share Posted January 31, 2015 I don't see any adverts as I have Adblock installed. Brian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terrierjohn Posted February 1, 2015 Author #6 Share Posted February 1, 2015 I don't see any adverts as I have Adblock installed. Brian Thanks for the tip Brian, that has improved things. However I must have some sort of virus on the laptop since I am still getting frustrating new tabs opening via "sizlsearch" when I open up threads, but my Norton AV does not seem able to find and get rid of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dorsetlad Posted February 1, 2015 #7 Share Posted February 1, 2015 Terrierjohn, go here:- http://malwaretips.com/blogs/sizlsearch-virus-removal/ It will tell you how to remove it. I just did a google search on sizlsearch, and it found loads of info on removing it depending on your operating system. Brian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richleeds Posted February 1, 2015 #8 Share Posted February 1, 2015 Thanks for the tip Brian, that has improved things. However I must have some sort of virus on the laptop since I am still getting frustrating new tabs opening via "sizlsearch" when I open up threads, but my Norton AV does not seem able to find and get rid of it. You've probably been looking at some dodgy sites. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dorsetlad Posted February 1, 2015 #9 Share Posted February 1, 2015 The installation of Malwarebytes would also probably keep your system safe from such downloads. Brian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terrierjohn Posted February 2, 2015 Author #10 Share Posted February 2, 2015 Thanks again Brian malwarebytes found several files with embedded sizlsearch "pups" in them, however Norton's root checker found nothing, I am beginning to wonder why I continue to pay them? Anyway I am now an advert free zone, which begs the question why would advertisers want to use such invasive style adverts when I was quite happy to put up with the fairly benign ones, and in fact they could sometimes be useful in finding special offers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dorsetlad Posted February 2, 2015 #11 Share Posted February 2, 2015 Glad you got sorted John. Never liked Norton myself, I use Bitdefender which is free and very effective. If you research it, it gets very good performance reviews. Safe computing to all. Brian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terrierjohn Posted February 3, 2015 Author #12 Share Posted February 3, 2015 Further update, my laptop is now running about like a spring chicken, response times excellent, no keyboard lag and Firefox no longer freezing regularly, as yet. :) This I assume is down to Flashplayer no longer being so heavily used to run the adverts, in the past when things got bad I regularly needed to stop flashplayer in order to breathe life back into the laptop, why I did not use adblock before I will never know.;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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