Monday morning I noticed an annoying full page porn popup coming up about every hour.
So I run Spybot and nothing comes up. After reading for a few hours about this "virus" that kept popping up I just thought I was wasting too much time on it.
I then backed up my files/projects to my laptop, about 90gb worth of data... taking about 2 hours to transfer back and forth between the laptop and pc.
I then formatted and installed a clean version of Windows 7. Followed by Visual Studio, Sql Server, Office, all the goodies etc... Setting up a development machine is not as simple as sticking in a restore disc... So basically took a perfectly running system and redid it losing a full days worth of work.
Much to my dismay, this morning I got the damn popup again. I spent another hour or so looking up what this popup could be... I've never seen spyware survive a clean install, I was amazed.
The next time the popup came up, I decided to take a closer look at it.
Here is the pop as it displays, always a different ad, always fullscreen:
http://barelistbabes.com/images/popup.jpg
First thing I noticed, was that it wasn't an internet explorer window... hmmm, so I looked for the process in task manager:
http://barelistbabes.com/images/taskmgr.jpg
Next I clicked on "Go To Process"... and I see this as the selected process for this popup:
http://barelistbabes.com/images/process.jpg
I thought it was just a mistake and decided to try again and got the same process. So I ended the process and guess what, the popup closed...
A second later the process opened again and the popup came back...
Ok so I closed Nifty Stats Pro and the popup process... hmmm no pop anymore...
So I paid $200 for the full version of Nifty Stats Pro, and now I have a popup I thought was a virus forcing me to do a clean install on my machine and lose a full day's work.
Thanks guys...
