Popups and Permissions....
- From: kzeise@xxxxxxxxx
- Date: 1 Oct 2006 19:33:37 -0700
I'm having several serious issues that I'm wondering if someone might
be able to help me fix.
The basics... I'm running Windows XP and use Firefox as my primary web
browser - there's several things for work that I need Internet Explorer
to update, so that's used about 2 percent of the time. I have McAfee
Personal Firewall and VirusScan installed - both are current in their
updates. I also use Ad-Aware about once a week.
First problem... At random times, I get popups in Firefox telling me to
download WinAntiVirus Pro 2006. Sometimes, it happens when I'm
checking email, sometimes when I'm viewing ESPN.com or one of the many
newspaper sites I frequent. Now, I know this is a junk message, so I
don't click on anything except to close it. Well, now it's been
happening more and more frequently - three separate messages just when
browsing one thread in the Groups. I'm not clicking on anything to
bring this up, rather just scrolling with the arrow keys on the
keyboard.
Any ideas on how to nuke this thing? Upon reading one similar thread,
I ran SmitFraudFix, and it says it cleaned my system of four bad files,
but they're still popping up.
Second problem.... While working in Firefox, I'll get a popup randomly
for a RooTV or something similar to that, but it'll pop up in Internet
Explorer. Again, any ideas? (sorry for the lack of detail, it hasn't
happened since early this morning, and I don't recall what exactly it
was).
Third problem.... and while this seems totally unrelated, I'm thinking
that perhaps somehow it actually might be related. I had iTunes for
Windows 6.0 installed and decided to update that to iTunes 7.0. Since
I've done that, I haven't been able to burn a CD - I was able to do so
prior to installing the new version. I've checked the Apple site for a
fix, but can't get anywhere with that. Basically, I have a burner
installed - it recognizes it in the drive in the preferences window.
Well, when I put in a blank disk, it never recognizes it, though the CD
is found in My Computer. When I try to make any changes to the write
speed, thinking that if I slow the speed down, it might work, I get an
error message that pops up that says:
--An error occurred while updating the default player for audio file
types. You do not have enough access privileges for this operation--
Now, I'm logged in under my profile, the only one on the computer, and
it does have full administrator privileges. I've tried uninstalling
version 7.0 and re-installing 6.* only to have the same problem.
Any ideas and thoughts to fix for any of the three problems would be
greatly appreciated.
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