Ads appearing in VR

[carbolicus]

I seem to have acquired an adware virus which repeatedly displays pop-up adverts.

Whilst I wait for a PC support visit to cleanse my PC, can anyone let me know any way I can make sure these pop-up boxes don’t appear in the centre of my VR view?

I can live with them in 2D until the problem’s dealt with, but you can’t fly an ILS approach in VR with a second-hand car advert centred on your instrument panel!

[zildac]

I shouldn't laugh, but the mental image of what you described made me chuckle On a serious note, download a copy of Malwarebytes (trial) and run a full scan of the machine, let it clean anything it finds and zap it. It will almost certainly find the offending crap and get rid of it.

Edited December 8, 2024 by zildac

[Dangerzone]

Zildac's post re Malwarebytes is definitely the place to start.

Failing that, installing an interactive firewall (numerous antivirus programs have them), and only allowing DCS communication out might also stop them, if they're loading the ads over the internet. 

To test - you could disconnect from the internet and run DCS locally and see if the ads still persist. 

But boy - that's a lot of effort to go to with malware to put ads up... in VR of all places!

What are the ads for? If they're any international companies, I'd be keen to know - in order to avoid using those companies (like a particular company spamming these forums lately)?

[MAXsenna]

36 minutes ago, Dangerzone said:

What are the ads for?

 

7 hours ago, carbolicus said:

with a second-hand car advert

Install Malware bytes as recommended. Might even need to run it in "Safe Mode".

Best way to get into Safe Mode is to press "LWin + R" and type "msconfig" and press "Enter".

Then click the "Boot" tab, and check "Safe boot". Click "OK" and restart. Remember to repeat and revert to "Normal startup" when done.