Pop Ups

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From: hank (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/06/04


Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2004 15:34:40 -0800

if u r xp machine .have you turned off messenger? find it
in services and choose disable.(this is not instant
messenger). worse popups if you have a static ip address.
or is your browser maybe hijacked? spybot has immunize
feature to help stop some hijackers.

>-----Original Message-----
>For some reason yesterday I started getting tons of pop
>up ads while browsing. I left for a few minutes and when
>I returned I had over 20 pop ups on the screen. I never
>had this problem until yesterday. Any ideas on why this
>would happen all the sudden. I have not downloaded
>anything recently and I ran Ad-Aware and SpyBot Search
>and Destroy but I am still getting the pop ups. Any help
>would be appreciated.
>.
>



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