Red Wegener
Chieftain
- Joined
- Jul 6, 2002
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- 64
Hi,
Does anyone know anything about removing Outerinfo? I was browsing the forums last night with IE and got a message from Mcafee that a malicious script was running but just ignored it because I was busy reading and didn't expect to pick up anything on this site. It installed Outerinfo and seemed to crash Mcafee because Mcafee shield then no longer worked.
It uses Java so it was keeping the cpu busy about 70% of the time. it also caused Mozilla to crash every few minutes which I was also using at the time. It curiously seems to have affected my mouse also. The mouse loses its usb connection for a few seconds before it starts working again.
I was still able to do a scan with Mcafee and it found and removed several things the malicious script added. I also uninstalled Outerinfo from add/remove programs.
Today I am browsing the forums again and Outerinfo is back as are the popups. I am using AVG now since Mcafee was no longer working and it caught some scripts again which I was sure to block this time but somehow its back anyway.
A google search last night yielded no instructions on how to remove this beast permanently. Have any of you had experience with removing this?
Any suggestions are appreciated. I am going to be very unhappy if this forces me to reformat my drive. thanks
Does anyone know anything about removing Outerinfo? I was browsing the forums last night with IE and got a message from Mcafee that a malicious script was running but just ignored it because I was busy reading and didn't expect to pick up anything on this site. It installed Outerinfo and seemed to crash Mcafee because Mcafee shield then no longer worked.
It uses Java so it was keeping the cpu busy about 70% of the time. it also caused Mozilla to crash every few minutes which I was also using at the time. It curiously seems to have affected my mouse also. The mouse loses its usb connection for a few seconds before it starts working again.
I was still able to do a scan with Mcafee and it found and removed several things the malicious script added. I also uninstalled Outerinfo from add/remove programs.
Today I am browsing the forums again and Outerinfo is back as are the popups. I am using AVG now since Mcafee was no longer working and it caught some scripts again which I was sure to block this time but somehow its back anyway.
A google search last night yielded no instructions on how to remove this beast permanently. Have any of you had experience with removing this?
Any suggestions are appreciated. I am going to be very unhappy if this forces me to reformat my drive. thanks
