Re: annoying popup at startup

From: Bruce Chambers (bchambers_at_nospamcableone.net)
Date: 03/13/04 

Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 19:36:19 -0700

Greetings --

    To deal with issues caused by any sort of "adware" and/or
"spyware,"such as Gator, Comet Cursors, Smiley Central, Xupiter,
Bonzai Buddy, or KaZaA, and their remnants, that you've deliberately
(but without understanding the consequences) installed, two products
that are quite effective (at finding and removing this type of
scumware) are Ad-Aware from www.lavasoft.de and SpyBot Search &
Destroy from www.safer-networking.org/. Both have free versions.
It's even possible to use SpyBot Search & Destroy to "immunize" your
system against most future intrusions. I use both and generally
perform manual scans every week or so to clean out cookies, etc.

    Additionally, manual removal instructions for the most common
varieties of scumware are available here:

PC Hell Spyware and Adware Removal Help
http://www.pchell.com/support/spyware.shtml

Bruce Chambers 

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"justin" <juddyduval@yahoo.com> wrote in message 
news:bc0001c407f5$f9243c60$a101280a@phx.gbl...
>i have just installed win xp pro.  after win loads, a
> message appears saying that "You (or program) has
> requested information from hotbar.com .  how do you want
> to connect?"  and it gives the ways to connect to the
> internet.  i have never had that dialog at the start of
> win 2000, and i dont know what program wants the info.
> how can i get rid of that dialog which pops up every time
> i startup win xp pro?

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