Re: Pop ups gone wild

From: Jupiter Jones [MVP] (jones_jupiter_at_hotnomail.com)
Date: 11/25/03 

Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 23:44:45 -0700

Try System Restore but you should use one or both of the spyware
detection applications on the bottom of this link:
 http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/Security.htm 

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"DeanaLT@aol.com" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:089501c3b31d$116ee690$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> Please help!
>
> Ok, here's the story.  I let my daughter download Kazaa on
> a computer with Windows ME and I think we started to get
> some pop-up annoyances, though not terrible.  At some
> point, I was on the computer and saw a Windows dialog box
> that said the computer was becoming overwhelmed with pop-
> ups and did I want to install a pop-up protector.  I am
> not an idiot who believes everything he sees but this
> appeared to be an official windows dialog box.  To my
> knowledge, I successfully downloaded and installed that
> program, though I may not have been successful loading it.
> Does anyone know if Windows sedns this kind of dialog box?
>
> Anyway, I noticed that, sometime after that, it seemed
> like the pop ups got worse.  I then noticed that my
> default internet site was not yahoo and so I changed it
> back, thinking that would probably solve the problem  But
> it is not.  The only program I am using, fight now, is
> Norton AV and as it is scanning I am still getting pop ups.
>
> First of all, with Windows ME, can I restore my registry
> to what I had say three days ago and undo all the Kazaa
> installation and possibly phony anti-pop up installation
> I've done?
>
> Secondly, I see a bunch of programs that I don't know what
> they are.  Can you folk, tell me which are likely to be
> the problem causing the pop ups?  They are as follows:
>
> Bargain Buddy, BDE, Eboles Moe Money Maker, IMesh, Imesh
> ads support, Lycos Sideserver, MySearch Bar, New net
> domains 5.48, p2p networking, peer points manager, sanity
> media master, Top Text Ilookup, Viewpoint media player
> (remove only), Web Hancer Customer Companion, webHancer
> Survey Companion.
>
> Thanks,
> Deana

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