Popups & Adware disable laptop

From: Joey Palooka (JoeyEVP_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 05/28/05 

Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 13:48:00 -0700

I have a laptop that I normally leave logged on to my local wireless lan for
the last 7-8 months with no problems whatsoever relative to popups and
adware.

Last week I had a work associate email me a powerpoint presentation. Once I
opened it, I have had nothing but problems with recurring popups and adware
to the point my laptop is nearly useless.

I have the Microsoft AntiSpyware Beta and the CA antispyware with antipopup
software installed but simply will not stop these nuisance programs. I can
run both pieces of software and the popups occur all during the scan.
Sometimes I get 35 popups detected (and removed?) 10 minutes after a
previous scan.

I changed the Security on IE 6.028 to be highest but I can't even get EMail
from the Yahoo site with this setting.

Last night I had everything cleaned off for 30 minutes, no application
programs running with Microsoft AntiSpy and CA AntiSpy & CA Antipopup
running. This morning I had 66 IE windows open. So many that the task bar
has scroll buttons on it.

This all started after opening the power point presentations. Does anyone
have any software to recommend that could clear this problem? Or maybe High
Security with a few parms set to medium?

Thanks 

-- 
George W. Barrowcliff
George.Barrowcliff@flash.net