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06-11-2003, 09:46 PM
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Nick So
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I just reformatted my P166 for basic web surfing in another room in the house, but one of the programs i installed contains some spyware or something. It oculd be MSNPlus, but not certain.
Anyways, i ran adaware, but it didnt fix it.
Its basically a popup window, but its not like from IE or anything, its like a regular windows popup message that says eomthing about Casino's and $200, with the boxes OK and CANCEL.
I searched the registry with the words in the mesage box, but it couldnt find anything.
Any help?
Edit: here's a screenshot: http://www3.telus.net/sonick/stuff/popup.jpg
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06-11-2003, 10:10 PM
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Nick, what OS are you using on that PC?
By the way, your sig is scaring me...
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06-11-2003, 10:17 PM
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Do a google search for "popup killer" or "popup stopper".
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06-11-2003, 10:44 PM
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Rain's nostrils can't even compare to the freaky eyes of Nick! By the way, if you can see me, what am I doing at this moment? 
Alright, post that screenshot!
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06-11-2003, 11:01 PM
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Carl III
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Adaware doesn't kill them all, even with that and popup killer on my system I still get more than my share of ads. I never really gave it much thought, I let the filters do their work and i just clean up whatever slips thru manually.
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06-11-2003, 11:07 PM
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Turn off windows messaging
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06-11-2003, 11:11 PM
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Carl III
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How would I go about doing that?
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06-11-2003, 11:12 PM
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Yep, it's most likely Windows Messaging. Shut it off, make sure you have run Windows Update to get the latest and greatest, and make sure you have a decent firewall.
-Dave
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06-11-2003, 11:52 PM
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Turn off windows messaging
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Nick is running 98. Not 2000 or XP.
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06-12-2003, 09:29 AM
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it's windows messaging (yes, that can be running under win98).
It should be illegal what they are doing.
turn it off, and download some firewall software.
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