Re: Search Pop-up

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From: G (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/11/04 

Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 22:33:36 -0800

Thanks to Everyone. I will work on this stuff this
weekend and if all goes okay - great - if not I will be
back.

>-----Original Message-----
>G wrote:
>> I keep getting a search pop-up when I go to certain
>> websites, however without pattern as to which site it
will
>> occur. An example of 2 sites are a financial news site
>> called briefing.com and a movie review site. The
search
>> pop-up has this URL http://error.99fh.com/error.html
If I
>> close out the pop-up it just comes right back if I
change
>> web pages. I have run Spybot with no help. This is
more
>> than annoying. I have searched the registry for the
pop-
>> up site to no avail. Any suggestions would be
>> appreciated. Any idea on my computer or the registry
where
>> to look. I even tried deleting and copying over the
>> index.dat file in the history folder and cookies folder
>> but windows will not allow me to do so. It says it is
a
>> file in use and with a user-mapped section open?. How
can
>> I get around Windows and delete this file or copy it
>> over. I am running Windows 2000 Pro. Thanks in Advance
>
>Three things:
>
>1) Switch to Mozilla Thunderbird. It's faster then IE,
has integrated
>pop-up blocker, tabbed browsing, etc., etc., etc...
>
>2) If you know of a location that spyware is known to
create a
>directory, remove all the files in that directory but
*not* the
>directory. Now, edit the permissions for that directory
and Deny
>Full-Control to Everyone and System (I'm not sure if
System is
>considered an "Everyone" so System might not be
necessary).
>
>3) Create a regular user account that is not a member of
the
>Administrator group. Microsoft was smart when they
designed Windows NT+
>(Especially starting with Windows 2000) because of its
powerful
>permission control system. It might be more of a hassle
to manage
>certain aspects of your system when you're not always an
administrator
>(you have to log out of the computer as a regular user
and log in as an
>administrator) but it makes the OS a heck of a lot more
secure. You
>can't break something you don't have access to touch :-
). Administrator
>accounts should be used for just that, administration.
>
>Hope that helps,
>
>Sean
>.
>

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