I dont think we should give ADV a bad name yet, its very possible its a false positive, and the OP said he only recently installed anti-virus so his computer could have been infected from something else.

o3.power91

Bahrain5288 Posts

May 11 2008 19:04 GMT

#28

On May 12 2008 02:50 Tropics wrote:
I've been using it with absolutely no problems since 2.1a came out

Jolle

Norway185 Posts

May 12 2008 01:39 GMT

#29

There could be some fake/altered version out there? (dl'ed from a bad site)
Dunno but I realy doupt advloader is responsible...

vnlegend

United States1389 Posts

May 12 2008 05:06 GMT

#30

First, take a look at the screenshot. My anti-virus program detected a virus that was accessed by Process Name: AdvLoader.exe. If you look at the bottom of the screenshot, it is AdvLoader that launched and is accessing the virus page. The anti-virus software detected the virus, attempted to delete it but failed and notified me that it couldn't be deleted because it was in use by another program (AdvLoader).

Obviously, a program does not need to contain a virus to load a virus onto your computer. It can simply load a page from the internet that has a virus, and that will infect your computer. You can go and scan IE, it contains no viruses but you can get all kinds infections through it. The problem is with AdvLoader you can't control what it's loading onto your computer.

So this is what I'm saying the AdvLoader is doing, periodically loading pages that contain viruses/adware. The window at the top of the program makes you vulnerable to infection. And no, it's not from somewhere, anywhere else, as shown by the screenshot.

MoNKeYSpanKeR

United States2869 Posts

May 12 2008 05:15 GMT

#31

wow and i thought this was all due to when i freaked out about that girl i watned to see naked and made some bad decisions regarding sites i DL at.

But aroudn the same time i got advloader, i hope its not the culprit, but maybe it is and theres a cure, becuase ad-aware and spybot search and destroy couldnt get rid of whatevers fucking up my computer.

MoNKeYSpanKeR

United States2869 Posts

May 12 2008 05:17 GMT

#32

more research ploxxxx :D

i need these pop ups gone, it makes iccup fucking hard.

vnlegend

United States1389 Posts

May 12 2008 05:26 GMT

#33

On May 12 2008 14:17 MoNKeYSpanKeR wrote:
more research ploxxxx :D

i need these pop ups gone, it makes iccup fucking hard.

Adaware and spybot aren't very good. They work in the general sense but they'll always be one step behind, much like anti-maphackers. PM me and I'll help you out.

jimminy_kriket

Canada5529 Posts

May 12 2008 06:22 GMT

#34

http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=67148 MS read the bottom and follow the instructions there.

IzzyCraft

United States4487 Posts

May 12 2008 07:06 GMT

#35

Frankly i thinkt he porablem is that your looking at too many p0rn sites zeesh cut it down to only well known porn sites they dotn give virsi ADV is clean from my look at the coding at most the it can come from the little window with random ass adversiements in it but then just put ADV loader on a closly watched fireawall dont let it free roam

CharlieMurphy

United States22895 Posts

May 12 2008 11:18 GMT

#36

On May 12 2008 04:04 o3.power91 wrote:

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Except that i have noticed that even when SC is closed the ADVloader is still open and sometimes after about a minute it might alt tab me and show a popup. I think I stopped it with bannerzapper though.

TheFoReveRwaR

United States10657 Posts

May 12 2008 11:33 GMT

#37

On May 11 2008 21:28 LeGeNdZs[FcG] wrote:
thankfullly i got a dell comp just F,something when its starting up and the factory image restore takes about ten minutes, and poof windows vista is restored and comp formated! :D (yes this is kind of a brag bcus i never knew how ez a comp cud be until i bouight this one :ahah)

You sound partially retarded.

LosingID8

CA10829 Posts

May 12 2008 12:03 GMT

#38

On May 12 2008 20:33 TheFoReveRwaR wrote:

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You sound partially retarded.

you're being too generous

MasterOfChaos

Germany2896 Posts

May 12 2008 12:12 GMT

#39

Perhaps you already had some adware which redirects the content of the browserwindow of AdvLoader. ie using the hosts file or an IE plugin. Or one of the Ads AdvLoader displays comes from an infected server.