July 3, 200719 yr I have used nlite for a long time. And I love it. But recently I keep getting popup windows showing random ads. This happens after i used nlite to process my winxp. I initialy thought It was some stubbon spyware/adware and reformated the disk and installed windows prepared with nlite and no other software added. Going to sites like even yahoo gives me these ad popups every 10 mins. When i install windows directly from the window CD, i don't get these popups. Nlite adds these popups? I really hope thats not the case . Anyone else faced this problem with the recent version of nilte?
July 3, 200719 yr No such problem here.Do you install anything afterwards?Have you tried a second time? It could be some worm.Autoruns from MS (formerly from Sysinternals) should give you the culprit.
July 3, 200719 yr Nope, I don't put such things. Also you can see at download.com and softpedia.com that nLite got "clean" status.Check your installer if it has exact MD5 hash, however there is only 1.4 listed on my site to compare with so it's useful only if you have 1.4.
July 3, 200719 yr Did you check "Remove ALEXA" ?Did you integrate any addons, some of them have "Yahoo Tool Bar" and other crap like this in their installers ?!AgiThat´s the reason, why I love the portable FireFox2addon with all neccessary plugins integrated, like adblock+, noscript,... Edited July 3, 200719 yr by AgiHammerklau
July 3, 200719 yr No such problems here.Even 99% of the addons released on these forums are crap free.I'm sure you're missing something Edited July 3, 200719 yr by rado354
July 5, 200719 yr Author Thanks alot for the replies. Glad its not nlite. I download my copy from softpedia. No i did not install anything else. Win xp + IE7 + WMP 11. I reformated the drive and the popups keep coming back after a new install of windows. Really wierd. I belived formating removed everyhting on a comp. I'm gonna wipe the harddisk clean with kill disk this weekend then format it and install windows and see if the popups are there. These adware/spyware progs are getting more stubborn by the day.
July 5, 200719 yr Author One more thing I forgot to mention. The windows updates which I integrate with nlite are from a programe called "windows updates downloader". Could one of the updates contain the spyware/adware? Anyone else uses that programe to get the updates for win xp 32bit?
July 6, 200719 yr You can learn about Windows Updates Downloader here and from the official website found here.
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