Re: winpup..winpopup..or something like that....
From: Jeff Cochran (jcochran.nospam_at_naplesgov.com)
Date: 06/06/03
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Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2003 16:18:44 GMT
On Fri, 6 Jun 2003 05:57:35 -0700, "davem" <dmolitoris@comcast.net>
wrote:
>I'm not sure if this is happening to anyone else but
>every once in a while when I leave my computer and then
>come back to it I have this program being downloaded from
>the internet. I've searched the internet for it and
>found its some type of weather monitoring program. This
>wouldn't be so bad except that about 20 downloads of this
>program are occuring at the same time on my computer. Is
>this some type of hacker joke being played on me or just
>some type of pop-up gone mad?
Well, it isn't IIS doing it so you'd want to look in another
newsgroup. (Hint, Google "adware" or "spyware" and "popup")
Jeff
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