Need help removing Chitika popups, FB popups, and adyieldmanager popups

Hmm, I guess the first option sounds better. Which one do you think, would guarantee to solve the problem? I’m pretty much clueless about this, so you can choose :smiley:
Anyway, could you briefly explain to me what caused the unidentified driver to be there to begin with?

…Ah, It blued me out again when I was reading, using only chrome.

When windows updates it can sometimes cause a driver to become unstable, and the mindump happens early on in the process and uses a windows module to load hence there is no indication as to which driver is at fault

OK I think the first thing to do would be to cleanboot the system and hopefully that will stop them, then we will look for driver updates

Step 1: Start MSConfig

Click Start, type msconfig in the Start Search box, and then press ENTER.
If you are prompted for an administrator password or for a confirmation, type the password, or provide confirmation.

Step 2: Configure Selective Startup options

1.In the System Configuration Utility dialog box, click Selective Startup on the General tab.

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/73555776/Cleanboot1.JPG

2.Click to clear the Load Startup Items check box.
Note The Use Original Boot.ini check box is unavailable.

3.Click the Services tab.

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/73555776/cleanboot2.JPG

4.Click to select the Hide All Microsoft Services check box.
5.Click Disable All, and then click OK.
6. When you are prompted, click Restart.

Once back in windows does the problem still occur ?

THEN

Download Slim Drivers from here http://www.driverupdate.net/downloads/SlimDrivers-setup.exe

Install the programme and then run it, as this is a free service you may get some ads for there other products during the scan. They appear on the main interface and are not a real annoyance
Once the scan has completed it will then list the outdated drivers
At this stage do not download or install any but make a screenshot of the results so that I can see which are required.

Hide face in shame That was awefully ignorant of me to miss all these updates.
Though, I honestly cannot recall seeing any popups or update reminders regarding these items at all. Wonder…

When you started in the clean boot configuration were the blue screens still evident ?

Run Slimdrivers again and download the updates that I have indicated below
As they are the most likely initially to cause a crash

Hmm, most of the time, it crashed with BSOD when I was on chrome. And I haven’t been on it since the last crash. Shoud I test to see how it works after the clean boot config, before doing the updates?

Yes please, as we may need to totally uninstall and then re-install chrome

Following your advice, I went on Chrome for an hour, everything seems alright. So I proceeded to do the updates. Slimdrivers said that all those updates are successfully installed. However, there is one of them (the first one in the pic you sent) receive an error message from windows/IE (see attachment), eventhough slimdrivers said that it passed. I restarted the PC, browse on Chrome to test. And it crashed with BSOD a little bit later :frowning:

I attached the list of the remaining updates from the scan. Do I need to do some more of that to make sure the system runs alright? Also, is the BSOD problems on my pc more serious than just Chrome conflict, and the drivers incompatibility need to be fixxed to prevent future complications?

The error popup is not a problem, windows will stop any driver that is not compatible with your version of windows. This does happen sometimes

Are you running in the clean boot mode ?

And is it just chrome crashing now rather than the entire system at random

I’m having the same problems with the Chitika and adyieldmanager. I already tried Malwarebytes and AdwCleaner with no luck. I did the OTL and I will attach the report. Please help me, this is my work computer and its making it super slow to the point its almost unusable plus the popups are super annoying.

I will create a new topic for you and post there
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=121466.0

hmm, I’m sure that the multiplec crashs about 10 days a ago was random. But since the clean up boot, it only crashs during chrome browsing. And I still receive error 2 seconds into installing windows 8. I don’t really care about chrome or windows 8 to be honest. I am more concerned about how the incompatibility and out-dated issue would affect my pc health in the future. What do you think?

And I still receive error 2 seconds into installing windows 8
Can you remember exactly what the error was ?

What we can do is a full uninstall of Chrome

Follow the steps on this page including the registry download http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=111899

Reference the drivers as it stands I generally only tend to update them when I start noticing something getting a bit flakey, as for the compatibility that will happen as slimdrivers can only go on the current drivers installed, it does not read the hardware. So this is where some hiccups can occur, but any driver that has this problem will automatically be uninstalled and the old version put back on

Uhmmm… it just crashed with bsod, and I was not using chrome. And i wasn’t quick enough to catch the stop code (i’ll try next time it blue out.) What do I do now?

Uninstall chrome and see if you have the latest minidump in the C:\windows\minidump folder

I attached a screenshot of the Windows 8 install problem. Again, I care more about the underlying problem than windows 8 itself.
Here’s the link for the dump file. That last BSOD a few hours ago was quite strange, because it came like 2 seconds after I woke the pc up (it slept with one Internet Explorer tab open). Oh, and Chrome is removed as instructed.
http://www.mediafire.com/?16376a2756lk4wx#!

According to the screenshot there is a problem with the windows 8 download and one of the files is corrupted

Is the BSOD on waking from sleep consistent or was it just a one off ?

I woke the PC up, check emails and your last reply, and everything was fine. So I pressed sleep/power again, and take it with me to class. Half an hour later, I woke it up, BSOD came after a few seconds of waking. I am not sure if that answer your question. I have been using firefox for the last four hours and nothing happen yet.

Update these two drivers as it is a slow HDD spin up

So I installed one update, the first one on the pic. But the Intel(R) 5… isn’t there anymore.
And I haven’t experienced any BSOD since the last time, about 24 hours or so. Anyway, when you read the last dump file, did you find anything suspicious or wrong?

No it was an unidentified driver, hopefully it was the storage one just updated

Let it run for a day as normal and then let me know of any outstanding problems