WINFIXER 2005

[Guest Boobie]

I keep getting redirected to the winfixer website no matter what option I click on, when I get a pop up from that company. Can anyone help? I ran both Norton and McCaffrey and they don't find what spyware/adware this thing is. I run Comcast High Speed, what I would like to do is block the web page is there a way to do that?

[bobobrazil1984]

One problem is that it may be coming from a specific site which you go to every time, in which case u'll have to avoid that site (or turn of java) until they get it fixed.

 

If its coming from your machine, for instance mine had the problem where it would pop up everytime I ran IE, then you want to try this:

 

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcen...moval.tool.html

 

(this is a tool from Symantec in case you're wary about where its coming from)

[keith6601]

I had the same problem. I noticed that when I would first get on the internet and the Comcast page was opening, at the bottom one of the things it would do would be downloading Winfixer. I stop the Comcast page from opening completely and I haven't had the problem occur again. I know this isn't a complete fix to the problem but its a start until someone does find the fix.

[Jericholic82]

I had a thread about this already. I bought some anti-spyware software at best buy and it got rid of it, for awhile, now sometimes itll pop up again. ill run the spyscan and get rid of it. but its not doing like when I first gopt it and coming on EVERY time I use IE, just sometimes. So I just have stopped using IE altogether for the time being. If you have AOL I would suggest using that browser instead, as I have never had that thing pop up while running that browser.

[bobobrazil1984]

did the removal tool i posted above work for anyone else?