# pissing me off! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 13, 2004, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pissing-me-off/239830 "2004-04-13T18:33:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Miss\_Magic8ball](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Miss\_Magic8ball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Magic8ball)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2004, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pissing-me-off/239830/1 "2004-04-13T18:33:51Z")
I have no idea what the deal is, or if it’s just my computer… but anyone ever heard of PerfectNav? Its some stupid search engine. And evertime I try and click on a link and it takes more then 10 seconds to load, it goes [here](http://www.perfectnav.com/index.cfm?action=lookup&pc=pnkz&arg=DNS&Keywords=http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/newthread.php&uid=0086C09F-B9AE-45CF-9313-CD8AD640A43B&version=1.5.0) and its starting to PISS ME OFF. I tried to get into one of the threads, “I fucked up” and I ended up there. FIVE TIMES. It does it when I try to get to my LJ freinds page, when I want to check my junkmail… Its been going on for about a week now. I want it to stop. Anyone else getting this too? In fact, I had to redo this because when I tried to post it the first time, It went there too! Could this be a virus? Because this is a new laptop, and that would SUCK. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2004, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pissing-me-off/239830/2 "2004-04-13T18:36:23Z")
[Adaware](http://www.lavasoft.nu/) [Spybot](http://security.kolla.de/) Download, install, update, run, watch all sorts of trojans, tracking cookies, and other garbage disappear. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Magic8ball](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Miss\_Magic8ball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Magic8ball)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2004, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pissing-me-off/239830/3 "2004-04-13T19:29:06Z")
Done it. Didn’t work. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2004, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pissing-me-off/239830/4 "2004-04-13T19:29:36Z")
I had to run spybot to get rid of that. I don’t see how they think this is a good idea. ---
**Author:** ![blowero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/41988e/32.png) [@blowero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blowero)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2004, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pissing-me-off/239830/5 "2004-04-13T19:35:55Z")
A google search gave me this page: [http://www.kephyr.com/spywarescanner/library/perfectnav/index.phtml](http://www.kephyr.com/spywarescanner/library/perfectnav/index.phtml) which appears to have instructions for removing perfectnav. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Magic8ball](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Miss\_Magic8ball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Magic8ball)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2004, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pissing-me-off/239830/6 "2004-04-13T20:40:42Z")
Thanks! problem solved. I’ve decided you’re my hero. ---
**Author:** ![blowero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/41988e/32.png) [@blowero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blowero)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2004, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pissing-me-off/239830/7 "2004-04-13T20:55:47Z")
Aw, shucks. ---
**Author:** ![Bruce\_Daddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/85f322/32.png) [@Bruce\_Daddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bruce_Daddy)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2004, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pissing-me-off/239830/8 "2004-04-13T21:08:30Z")
Has the problem been solved? :Shakes **Miss Magic8ball** and turns her over: _Signs point to yes._ ---
**Author:** ![Harmonix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Harmonix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonix)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2004, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pissing-me-off/239830/9 "2004-04-13T21:49:28Z")
> [@Bruce\_Daddy](#): > > Has the problem been solved? > > :Shakes **Miss Magic8ball** and turns her over: > > _Signs point to yes._ oh man… ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2004, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pissing-me-off/239830/10 "2004-04-13T22:00:06Z")
BTW, did you install the most recent reference file for Ad-aware? it’s available from [http://updates.ls-servers.com/reflist.zip](http://updates.ls-servers.com/reflist.zip) save it to your machine and unzip it to c:\programme files\lavasoft\adaware then run the scan again. ---
**Author:** ![slortar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2004, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pissing-me-off/239830/11 "2004-04-14T12:25:23Z")
> [@TwistofFate](#): > > BTW, did you install the most recent reference file for Ad-aware? > > it’s available from > [http://updates.ls-servers.com/reflist.zip](http://updates.ls-servers.com/reflist.zip) > > save it to your machine and unzip it to c:\programme files\lavasoft\adaware > then run the scan again. Or you can just click on the globe icon when running adaware and let adaware handle the update automatically. ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2004, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pissing-me-off/239830/12 "2004-04-14T12:40:45Z")
> [@slortar](#): > > Or you can just click on the globe icon when running adaware and let adaware handle the update automatically. it can’t hurt to learn how to do it yourself 😉 ---
**Author:** ![slortar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2004, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pissing-me-off/239830/13 "2004-04-14T15:07:18Z")
> [@TwistofFate](#): > > it can’t hurt to learn how to do it yourself 😉 LOL