midADdle adware

Factual Questions
1

Ok dammit. I tried to visit a site today and it automatically installed this piece of shit called midADle that throws up an ad in your webpage before forwarding you to the site you wanted to get to in the first place. I’ve run Ad-aware till I’m blue in the face. I uninstalled any new programs I found in my add/remove software list (in W2K). I’ve rebooted since then. I’ve Googled it and only found 4 sites, all of which are basically press releases for this wonderful new piece of elephant dung that hijacked my homepage and now causes “page cannot be displayed” errors, even on pages I use at work for my call tracking software.

Has anyone seen this new “marvel” and been successful getting rid of it? (Yes I did read the helpful computer FAQ sticky…that was a cool idea, btw, and I am a hardware tech, but this is just a stumper.)

2

If Ad-Aware and doesn’t clean things, try CWShredder to see if it’s a CoolWebSearch infection. If that doesn’t do it, the next step would be to download and run hijackthis and post the log it creates for analysis.

3

Don’t forget Spybot S&D.

In my experience, Adaware is less likely to cause something inconvenient to happen to your machine, but Spybot is more likely to dig out the nastier shit.

-Joe, typically runs Adaware unless something nasty just won’t go away

4

Spybot is good, but right now, Ad-Aware is better (it is the only simple way to remove the about:blank CWS variant).

At other times, Spybot has been clearly superior. It depends on how the updates are going.

However, it’s not a bad idea to run both.

5

This adspeak was amusing … “pushing privacy barriers”.