a question about lop


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is there ANY chance at all of lop hiding in neowin somewhere? i've been fighting with lop all day (adaware, spybot, deleting that file, turning off system restore, rebooting, and repeating) and it seems like it comes back when i come to neowin - neowin was the only site i visited after the last round of spyware cleaning and lop is back.

ANY help or suggestions is REALLY appreciated!

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Well, unfortunately Lop is some of the worst spyware out there to remove. Are you sure it only happens when you visit Neowin? I'm having no problems here. Also, what browser are you using?

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i'm using myie2 and neowin is the only site i've visited. i can't believe it's coming from neowin. i'm running out of ideas for getting rid of it because it's back. my anti-virus stuff is up to date, my spyware stuff is up to date...

can you think of ANYTHING?????

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i'm using myie2 and neowin is the only site i've visited. i can't believe it's coming from neowin. i'm running out of ideas for getting rid of it because it's back. my anti-virus stuff is up to date, my spyware stuff is up to date...

can you think of ANYTHING?????

Well, there's really only two ways Neowin could give you spyware:

The site itself (I think we can safely rule that out :rolleyes:)

The ads

I really doubt it's coming from the ads, since I'm *pretty* sure Neowin only uses Google ads. But I can't say for sure, as I haven't seen an ad in months.

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I think I found the problem.

nice intelligent answer :rolleyes:. this is the 1st time i've been lopped since i started using myie2.

it's not neowin...it's something else so i have to keep looking for it

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maybe you've installed software that contains that 'lop spyware' ? i remember something like DivX codecs or maybe Messenger Plus :ermm: ?

i don't know. i've installed updates, but i can't think of any new installs. i think i'll just tear it down and reformat/reinstall xp and install my new memory and video card this weekend

thanks to everyone except kagaku for your help :)

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Ad-aware and Spybot are nice. Norton and McAfee utils are too. However, no detection software is 100% and other are clones and actually place spyware/trojans on your system when you remove them (SpyFerret).

I finally installed SpySweeper on my dad's system. For quite some time he would call me up I'd say do this and he'd go do it, then call me up a few days later to say it didn't work.

Anyway SpySweeper finally nipped it in the bud.

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