Re: Unwanted Porn PopUps when IE Starts

From: Dan Bacon (DBACON1@kc.rr.com)
Date: 03/18/02 

From: "Dan Bacon" <DBACON1@kc.rr.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 10:20:36 GMT

I cleaned out cookies and temp internet and it still shows up.

Any other ideas?

"blah" <blah@blah.com> wrote in message
news:3c92936e.179172808@corp.supernews.com...
> clean out your cookies and temporary internet files
>
> On Fri, 15 Mar 2002 21:17:10 GMT, "Dan Bacon" <DBACON1@kc.rr.com>
> wrote:
>
> >Help,
> >
> > Recently I have been having porn sites popup when I am running
Internet
> >Explorer. There seems to be the same 3 or 4 popups and somewhere in the
mix
> >is an ad from somebody trying to sell a "security" program that wipes
clean
> >any trace of sites visited. I am pretty sure this is the company that
put
> >this stuff on my system. But I don't want to give them the satisfaction
> >(much less any money) to solve the problem they created.
> >
> > Anyone have any idea where to go to get rid of this junk. This much
I
> >know it only opens when I run IE or OE and then at random times during a
> >session.
> >
> >--
> >
> >
> >
>

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