Re: Getting rid of program loaded from website

From: Someone (me_at_here.co.uk)
Date: 08/31/04 

Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 14:34:54 +0100

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.

Sounds like your web browser has been hijacked. Best bet for cleaning it
up is something like Ad-Aware (www.lavasoft.de)

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