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Re: Arrrgghhh!!!!! (part deux)
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Tue, 16 Nov 2004 15:05:19 GMT
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On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 02:56:11PM +0000, David Koudys wrote:
> So I purchased a brand spankin' new 'puter system yesterday ('cause
> EQ2's been out for over a week now and I'm missing the lands o'
> norrath...)
Pft. World of Warcraft, baby!
> Wasn't plugged into the high speed cable connex for more than 2
> minutes before pop-ups started appearing.
I read this far before I said "IE". Then I also said "Firefox". And
probably "Reinstall, and/or Spybot S&D".
> 4 hours later, after tracking down registry entries, deleting
> directories and files, and basically purging my new system of spyware,
> it's back to semi-normal.
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> Microsoft sux.
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> Anyway, disabled yet even more processes, got Zone Alarm running, and
> also put the system behind my hardware router/firewall. The only thing
> left is an annoying little thing that happens in Internet Explorer--I
> know that many of you will say that this is the problem right there--
> i.e. IE ;) but it's what's on the system and I have to use it at work
> 'n such, so I'll stick with it. Anyway, after IE's open, about 1-2
> minutes later a 'search' window appears at the left with all sorts of
> dumb links. Can't find in the registry where to stop this from
> occurring. Maybe I shuold have put this in o.t.geek instead, but I
> trust that rtl lurkers are pretty smart as well.
Try Spybot - it's actually pretty good at rooting these things out:
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/spybotsd/index.html
> Anyway, daves new soooper 'puter is a p4 3.0 with 128 meg Asus/ATI
> AX600EX video card and a gig of ram, with these 'new' sata drives. Now
> more for me to read up on...
Cool! Sounds like it should work for WoW, or HL2 (which came out today,
woot!)
> Well, my nights are now booked between LEGO and EQ2. Waittaminute, not
> much ahs changed when my nights were booked for LEGO and EQ1.
What's this LEGO thing people keep talking about? :)
--
Dan Boger
dan@peeron.com
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