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From: Loki (Loki_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 07/29/04 

Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 23:19:34 -0700

The last couple of days my internet has been acting rather strange, and I'd thought it to be spyware, but I'm not 100% sure. The 'symptoms' are:
- when I click on a link to open a page in a new browser window, the window pops up, then immediatly closes. If I click the link again, the new window comes up fine.
- occasionally I'll click on a link (of any sort) and the browser will shut itself down immediatly.
- if I try to use the 'back' feature, sometimes previous pages won't load (happens about 80% of the time I try to go back). I have to type the URL into the address bar again and press enter to get something to load.
- The status bar displays the loading page as http://www.ads234.com/Adview~requesturl/URL-I-clicked-on... or something similar to that.
- spyware-esq pop-ups (ie. Popups occuring when IE hasn't even been opened etc - I'm on broadband)

I'm not sure if they all stem from one spyware, or if they're from something different, but I can't seem to find anything to indicate what's causing these things to happen. I've run Spybot about 6 times over the last two days, but it hasn't resolved the problems (and there are no updates for download on them).

Any ideas on what's wrong and how to fix it would be very much appreciated!

Oh! and one more thing... I've got this file 'exactadvertising.exe' - The exact people are the ones behind that BargainBuddy thing, right? I can't seem to delete it - it always says it's in use.

Thanks very much to anyone who replies!

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