Re: Getting an error message nearly every time!

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Spyware tends to be blamed for pretty well everything that goes wrong with
computers, but does anyone know what the actual mechanism is that might
cause a machine to go wrong? It can't really be in the interests of a
spyware writer to stop computers working, can it? So are they just
incompetent programmers, or is there another less obvious agenda?

David Kelsey


"DGuess" <majik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Doug Mc" <NOSPAMdougandnancymcneill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> In the last few days, just about anytime I click on a URL or do a Google
>> search and click on one of the options I get an error.
>> The error says that IE has encountered an error and I might lose
>> something
>> I've been working on. It then asks if I want to send an error report to
>> MS
>> and restart IE.
>>
>> Does anyone know what might cause this??
>>
>>
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>
>
> Spyware and possibly a corrupt cache but I'd bet on the spyware first.
>
> Have you happened to scan the computer with Adaware, spybot and possibly
> the Microsoft Anti-spyware program with up to date definitions installed?
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