Re: Getting rid of program loaded from website

From: Leon Kyneur (lkyneur_at_unitedip.net.au)
Date: 08/31/04 

Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 23:10:52 +1000

Try running some spyware removal software such as AdAware
(www.lavasoft.de) or Spybot S&D (www.spybot.info) 

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Leon Kyneur			lkyneur@unitedip.net.au
United IP			http://www.unitedip.net.au/
Phone: 02 8825 5586		Fax: 02 8825 5587
On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, Edw. Peach wrote:
> A friend sent me a link to a page that had some adult material on it.
> I visited it using Mozilla Firefox,  my default browser.  I noticed
> that the page opened up twice and then opened a blank ABOUT page in
> IE, which I only use for updating Windows XP.  Now, whenever I hit a
> link from my email program, I get the same result.  I've sent myself
> Yahoo news stories and it's the same thing.
>
> What's up with this?  How do I get that off my computer?  I'm guessing
> that website loaded something on me.
>

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