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Need help with annoying pop-ups in WinXP
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
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Date:
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Fri, 11 Feb 2005 01:54:10 GMT
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Hey y'all,
I'm hoping one of you super cyberpunks can help me out here. In the last
few months I've been getting these pop-ups stating that my registry or
something else may be infected, corrupted, etc. They want me to type in the
web address (fix-comp.com, updatepatch.info, errofixer.com, win-fix.com,
updatenow.org to name a few!) to fix the problem. Of course, I've never
done this because there is no problem but the pop-ups are really starting to
annoy me. I've not downloaded any patches for WinXP because I've heard that
the patch makes things run worse.
I've run Spybot and Ad-Aware and have Norton running always along with
BlackICE as my firewall. Obviously, these programs aren't enough and I'd
love to hear some suggestions.
Thanks in advance!
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Message has 3 Replies:
 | | Re: Need help with annoying pop-ups in WinXP
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| (...) Hey, I've been having a similar problem! All the popups come if I open MSN messenger, or IE. They also take me to some *&%#@& 'Kita-search.com' 'here4search.com' 'win-eto.com' and some more. I've run Norton, but even after it wipes everything (...) (20 years ago, 11-Feb-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
| | | Re: Need help with annoying pop-ups in WinXP
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| (...) Such is the invariable burden of a network connected Windows machine. Unfortunately, the only "fix" (I put that term in quotes deliberately) is to stay up to date with Microsoft's patches to the OS. The version of IE that comes with XP SP2 (...) (20 years ago, 11-Feb-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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