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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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Wed, 16 Feb 2005 22:58:06 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!
Hi,
I would suggest installing and using Firefox for all web surfing. That should
hopefully stop most of them from appearing.
Its free (as in beer and as in press) and good!!! Here's a link
<http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/start/>
Tim
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