Computer help

[Pancho Sanza]

Keep getting an "active update" popup to upgrade to aim version 6.9

Only option is to install it, if you refuse to install it and just click the X in the right hand corner, it reappears every 15 minutes or so. This has been going on for 3 days.

I've gotten these in the past and there are usually 2 options, install or no thanks.

The fact this one only has the option to install leads me to suspect this is a phony disguised as a virus, how do i stop this shit from popping up every 15 minutes?

[th3ory]

google>install Malwarebytes if its a spyware/malware problem this will find it...

[Scott Landau]

AOL Triton Active Update Fix | Jimmy Daniels

Is that the one?

[TTinCO]

That's it Scott....I've had the same thing happening.

Short fid-search for anotify.exe & rename it anotify.old. Walla-Fixed!

[Scott Landau]

Good to hear TT!

I don't even have AIM. But I remembered Googling from before and finding all kinds of tricks to turn off annoying aoHELL so-called services. aoHELL pretty much acts as its own spam-bot once you install it.

How'd you make out Punchie?

[Pancho Sanza]

didn't work, found the file, deleted it, rebooted, still get the pop up.

Now when I look for the file to try and remove it, its not there.

[Ironlock]

Been X-ing out that fucking box for 3 years, fuck AOL.

[TTinCO]

Pancho, I just rebooted & got the same f'ing thing. Try going into task manager and "end process" on the item called aolsoftware. I "think" that fixed it for me.

[buffbetonsports]

"Now when I look for the file to try and remove it, its not there"

I hate that, it happened to me several months ago. My IT people at work said bring in the tower but I did one last full scan, found it in a different place or different name and was able to remove/delete it.

[RaisinCapital]

Linux-- click red hat icon, system tools, system monitor, process listing.

XP-- cmd ... dir c:\*.exe /w/o/s/p -- no spaces .. lists executable files on c drive in this instance

[RaisinCapital]

you could throw in /a to list them by most recent ... maybe good in that case

[Scott Landau]

I'm going looking for another fix. Shit like this always makes me curious.

Has anyone tried... Start <Control Panel <add or remove programs and deleted AOL Coach, and other unnecessary AOL programs? That worked for me once when I was getting update notifications for AOL anti-Spyware, which is another resource hog. Pancho, you have what I posted in post #3, correct?

[Scott Landau]

Give this thread a shot:

active update-aol core services - software update -Is this from AIM? - Page 4

[Scott Landau]

Another, very detailed:

Real Estate Blog - Remove AOL Active Update PopUp

[Minnow]

That aol box is annoying as hell.

Does anyone have the latest msn? I haven't figured out how to turn off all that inter-network stuff.. It seems very intrusive to see all the info every time one of your buddies adds someone to their network. I don't want a friggin myspace- just instant messages.

[Pancho Sanza]

Originally Posted by TTinCO

Pancho, I just rebooted & got the same f'ing thing. Try going into task manager and "end process" on the item called aolsoftware. I "think" that fixed it for me.

Seems to have worked, thanks.

And thanks to Scotty too.

[Pancho Sanza]

Originally Posted by Pancho Sanza

Seems to have worked, thanks.

And thanks to Scotty too.

This thing is back, end process kills it temporarily, however, every time I re boot the PC its there again.

[12345678]

go to start --> run

type in

msconfig

in msconfig go to the startup tab...
find the entry where it is calling the exe-
uncheck to keep from starting up at bootup