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Re: Need help with annoying pop-ups in WinXP
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
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Fri, 11 Feb 2005 04:21:04 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Samarth Moray wrote:
> 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.
> >
> > 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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> 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
A brief Google search yielded this:
http://computercops.biz/postp452232.html
The last post seems to blame Messenger which appears to be the cause of the
above problem.
-Orion
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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)
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