Re: "Permission Denied"

Tech-Archive recommends: Fix windows errors by optimizing your registry

From: Malke (malke_at_nospoonnotreally.com)
Date: 11/16/04 

Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 19:44:58 -0800

Shaft 1969 wrote:

> I just formatted my computer so everything is brand new. The other day
> I was browsing and some site I went to hit me with a huge string of
> pop-ups. I think that one of them left something on my computer 'cause
> now I can't view a number or secured sites, such as Hotmail and a few
> sites that I use for school purposes. There's nothing wrong with the
> sites, so it must be my computer. It's only a few sites that this
> happens at. I don't think that it's a problem with my security
> settings or my firewall because I haven't touched them and before that
> pop-up incident, all the sites worked. I don't know what to do.

You need to scan your computer for malware. Here are general steps: 

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