Re: IE pop-ups
From: Stephen Harris (Stephen_P_Harris_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 08/16/04
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Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 08:51:49 -0700
"Lindsay" <lindsay@home.com> wrote in message
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> Recently, I downloaded and installed Download Accelerator Plus. What a
> mistake that was! Full of spyware and adware! I had some trouble with
> uninstalling some bits and ran AdAware to check my computer. It all seems
> to
> be gone now, but I still get these annoying IE pop-ups. They started when
> I
> first installed DAP and now they won't stop. They are all the same. Just
> advertising. I normally use Googles toolbar to stop pop-ups, but I think
> they are triggered by something else other than a web page. The process
> list
> in Task Manager doesn't show anything abnormal. (Not now anyway)
>
>
Besides running ad-aware and spybot, I have found that pop-up blocker
that comes with windows xp sp2 works great.
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