Ok my wife used the computer last night and now I have a stupid pop up when i open google or yahoo . The pop up link is broken and always says adserve. I downloaded and ran the new version of spybot three days ago and it cleaned everything i thought. I ran it again today and it found nothing. adaware found nothing. CWshredder found nothing. I ran hijackthis and found nothing. I updated norton anti-virus and it found nothing. Any clue what this thing is?

any help would be appreciated

Jobefx

go d/l www.myie2.com built in pop up stopper etc, other then that check your 'on startup' programs and registry as it may be some stupid program

I just found out that I can't search google for Adserve... :S

Dunno how to solve it, but I do recommend a google search...

You could try these:

'http://www.spywareinfo.com/articles/hijacked/

'http://forums.spywareinfo.com/

Also check your add/remove programs to see if it's an installed program.

well after some searching and checking add/remove programs, it was a program called pgate, I searched for pgate and found instructions to remove it manually. Thanks for everyones help. Now if anyof knows anyone who writes spyware please help me out once again and beat them with a large stick.


Jobefx

haha.. I would want to join that attack squad lol!

Try using BPS Spyware Remover and Pest Control. I have found them to be very effective. If these apps don't work you may have to go into the registry and delete all values, keys etc. with adserve listed.