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Re: Need help with annoying pop-ups in WinXP
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Fri, 11 Feb 2005 03:41:32 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, David Simmons wrote:
> Hey y'all,
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Thanks in advance!
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 out (super-spider, download.trojan, and adware.cydoor) it
just comes back! And I believe it's causing explorer to become VERY unstable of
late too. Everytime I close a window, it seems to crash. Although my Firefox
isn't affected by it... everything else which is Microsoft, is.
Legoswami Samarth
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| Using a good, non-microsoft web browser will help a great many of these woes. I personally like (URL) Firefox>. It's free, installs in seconds, MUCH faster than some other browsers, has tabbed windows, built in protective measures. Yeah. Just try (...) (20 years ago, 11-Feb-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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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 (...) (20 years ago, 11-Feb-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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