 | | Re: Need help with annoying pop-ups in WinXP —Mark Neumann
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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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| | | | | Re: Need help with annoying pop-ups in WinXP —David Simmons
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| | | | I forgot to mention that the pop-ups occur even when I'm not online. Dave "Mark" <snowleopard@foxinternet.net> wrote in message news:IBqCty.MwB@lugnet.com... (...) woes. I (...) free, (...) windows, (...) does (...) reccomended. (...) have no clue (...) (20 years ago, 11-Feb-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | Re: Need help with annoying pop-ups in WinXP —Mark Neumann
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| | | | | (...) Another reason to avoid IE whenever possible. (Disclaimer: the following info was given to me by an IT pro friend of mine, he's smarter at this stuff than me, that's why I listened to him. Why? Because he can hack, and occassionaly, does) (...) (20 years ago, 12-Feb-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: Need help with annoying pop-ups in WinXP —Orion Pobursky
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| | | | (...) Some more Googling yielded this: -*-*-*- One thing you do not want to do is click on any of those fake popup "notices" about "spyware found on your computer" You may have the Windows Messenger service which apparently is where you are (...) (20 years ago, 12-Feb-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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