Re: Probable Internet Explorer Problem

From: BB (qbernard_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 05/29/03 

Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 17:50:03 +0800

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Regards,
Bernard Cheah
http://support.microsoft.com/
"James F. DeRose" <derose1876@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
news:470a01c32560$6fdc1bd0$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> I have 3 PCs on DSL/Yahoo.  The oldest, still running W98,
> has had its IE "captured" by an external villain.  The
> other two machines are fine.
> When I click on IE I go directly to my Yahoo home page.
> On the W98 machine the area immediately to the right of
> the "search" box is filled with "xxxporn", "xxxmovies",
> etc.
> If I use anything except e-mail (which is still fine),
> say, go to another web site, I am beset with porn pop-
> ups.  Sometimes (not always)they come so thick and fast I
> cannot "x" them out fast enough.  Every few days a pop-up
> will appear asking me to sign for a porn service and I
> cannot shake it even with CTL-ALT-DEL.  I have to power
> down.
> I have taken all the steps I know about to eliminate this
> problem. Negative results. I have been told to get at the
> registry and find the offenders, but the directions I was
> given do not work on W98.  Can't access it.  I know I'm
> not getting at the root of the problem.  For example, I
> did a "find" *.exe and laboriously went thru everything
> listed there.  I absolutely did find a porn site and
> cannot delete it.  Reason: "In use by Windows."
> Anybody got any fresh ideas?

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