Strange Pop up...

[Wrench 9,869]

I get this (down at the bottom of the screen capture) on every page I open, even if I don't mouse over anything!

If I ignore it, instead of canceling or just closing it, is turns yellow and kind of blinks a bit

 

Any idea what it is??

 

TIA

 

[claw 17]

Some googling reveiled this (seems to be rather harmless but only annoying):

 

 

"Based on some digging I've done, moatads.com is a website that seems to specialize in web analytics. It's difficult to tell who owns it, although the nameservers point to Amazon Web Service, so whoever owns it is using Amazon's servers to operate the service.
It can show up as v4.moatads.com or js.moatads.com, depending on whether it is using cookies or Javascript to monitor your behavior on the Internet. It's adware or a potentially unwanted program. It's appearing in your temporary Internet files because that's where things like cookies get stored.

 

You can delete them. Go to Control Panel>Internet options. On the General tab, click Delete Files under Temporary Internet Files, and select the Delete all offline content checkbox, then click OK, and click OK again.

Then delete all the cookies."

 

 

Hope this helps.

Edited October 16, 2015 by claw

[Fubar512 1,350]

Run cleanup. Flush the toilet.

[+daddyairplanes 10,258]

At first i thought you were talking bout the "nobody will talk to us" ad on top.

[+Erik 1,812]

Yeah this is a javascript you've collected somewhere. Clear your browser cache and also clear your java cache. Control panel > java > find the flush cache option

[+The Trooper 104]

...and don't use Internet Explorer 

[Gulfwarfighter 3]

i have a other problem..

 

at the screenshot off wrench i miss something

 

the icon left of the message icon <right top of screen> 

the icon who tells you how many friends are online is totally gone..

even when i hang my mousepoint over it and right click to inspect but there is nothing

 

i have a up to date firefox and up to date java and flashplayer.

 

http://postimg.org/image/im1ey1xkd/

 

nevermind it apears again... weird

Edited October 17, 2015 by Gulfwarfighter

[+Erik 1,812]

It's not a complicated thing. It's a simple if statement in the code, if friends equals zero don't show the icon.

 

This is working as intended.

[Wrench 9,869]

still getting the mortand (or whatever) even after purging cookies via Cleanup and even raised my browser security setting  (and my site password got wiped too -- and  didn't remember!!).

 

very strange. It even showed at SimHQ today

[+Erik 1,812]

Do a malware check with several malware scanning programs on the Windows computer.

 

Please scan with all programs because each program detects different malware. All these programs have free versions.

 

Make sure that you update each program to get the latest version of their databases before doing a scan.

 

Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware:
http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php

 

AdwCleaner:
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/adwcleaner/
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Antivirus/Removal-Tools/AdwCleaner.shtml

 

SuperAntispyware:
http://www.superantispyware.com/

 

Microsoft Safety Scanner:
http://www.microsoft.com/security/scanner/en-us/default.aspx

 

Windows Defender:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/using-defender

 

Spybot Search & Destroy:
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html

 

Kasperky Free Security Scan:
http://www.kaspersky.com/security-scan

 

 

You can also do a check for a rootkit infection with TDSSKiller.

 

Anti-rootkit utility TDSSKiller:
http://support.kaspersky.com/5350?el=88446

[+Erik 1,812]

I don't know if you cleared your java cache or not, I mentioned it yesterday but this is where it's coming from not your browser cache. To clear it you have to go into the control panel > java console > clear browser cache

 

ALSO

 

Set your java cache size in the java console to 0kb or turn off caching.  This will prevent java from storing on your machine at all which is beneficial for a lot of reasons especially if you like windows explorer. You don't need the cache (storing java on your machine) usually they are so small and with today's internet speeds downloading scripts each time you visit a page takes milliseconds. Save yourself the hassle and disable java caching.

[Wrench 9,869]

the only thing that's even close to caching is the check box "Keep temporary files on my computer"

 

would that be it?

It's now turned off

 

I'd lowered the allowed space, but it wouldn't go below 1 MB. Now, as you can see, it's all greyed out

[+Erik 1,812]

That's the one, you did good. :)

[Wrench 9,869]

and still getting it, boss. Did Malwarebytes scan, ESET hasn't caught anything nor has window's defender.

[+Erik 1,812]

Okay you're going to have make a safemode disk which will run your antivirus without the operating system being loaded. To do this you'll want to research how either through Kasperky's or AVG support. They'll teach you the process and get you everything you need. Of course your could always remove the drive and slave it to another machine and do the same thing by scanning that drive.  There are also manual removal steps but I recommend trying the above first. The thing you've got is called JS/WORM, any search should give you more support.

 

Erik

http://free.avg.com/us-en/226386- How to

 

http://www.avg.com/us-en/free-antivirus-protection- Free AVG antivirus, get it. Personally recommend this, never had a problem or cost me a cent. Has an upgrade nag to switch to the pro version (costs $$$) at first install and when it upgrades but it's nothing and it's not annoying.

 

Good luck!