Re: pop up for removing spyware

From: N. Miller (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 01/30/05 

Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 15:49:23 -0800

In article <F4E11248-45D4-4B96-B3BC-DD2E87AAD785@microsoft.com>, =?Utf-8?B?
TWVsaXNzYQ==?= says...

> twice when I was online a pop up from microsoft came up and asked if I wanted
> to run the antispy ware I clicked ok both times and nothing happened now one
> comes up and says 18% of my computer is infected do I want to fix it and
> again a clicked on ok and still nothing. Im not sure what to do from here.
> thanks for any advice! Melissa

Well, what OS, and is it patched? Type of Internet connection would help.
Latest version of the browser? Which one? The pop up could well have been
something malicious, and you could well be infected. Do you even have any
antivirus program running? Is it current? 

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