Re: Sudden attacks by something called Live Girls

From: Charles Newman (charlesnewman1_at_attbi.com)
Date: 06/27/03 

Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 05:30:02 GMT

"Licensed to Quill" <vintagepen@compuserve.nospam.com> wrote in message
news:bc9q5b$3iv$1@ngspool-d02.news.aol.com...
> I have started to get a huge number of pop-ups on my screen mostly
emanating
> from porn sites. (ONE was Amex). Whenever I leave my computer on and go
away
> from it, there are about ten pop-ups ONLY from this series of, -
apparently
> live cam, - sites (I think I have a popup blocker which blocks almost ALL
> other pop-ups)
>
> And an icon mysteriously appeared on my screen called Live Girls which I
> found in a directory called blankdialer. Once or twice it seemed to be
> downloading some sort of info to my computer, though it didn't get very
far.
> I (obviously) couldn't find anything in add/remove programs nor did Norton
> Cleansweep get wind of this program coming in or installing itself and it
> manages to get past my firewall (At Guard)
>
> Anyone know how it does this or what I can do to combat it?
>
> Licensed to Quill
>
>

    The best way would be to WIPE OUT AND
REINSTALL Windows. Just re-format your hard disk
(after backing up important files first), and then
reinstall Windows, and all your software, and that
should get rid of the problem

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