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I to have been blessed with unwanted porn pop ups
along with many other unwanted pop ups and have gotten several unwanted folders.
I went to a software called ada-ware from www. lavasoftusa.com. It lets you go
back and look at any time frame to see if any software has been added to
your computer. You will be very surprised what gets added without your
knowledge. It will then let you remove what was just added. It does a complete
search of where every item was changed and or added so that you can remove
it from the stream. Works for me. Check it out to see if it will do what you
want before downloading. It is a FREE download.
reed
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 8:46
PM
Subject: Re: ShopTalk: Computer, not
golf
Do you really want thingys? :)
Mark
Al Taylor
wrote:
Mr. Burgess esq. put me onto ZA. I believe it was in
direct response to my below described problem. I think it has most all
of it under control. Trouble is, I don't get anymore unwanted porn
thingys. ;-)
Al
At 06:28 PM 2/3/2003, you wrote:
A little off topic,
but
Zone alarm keeps those pop ups under control and can be set to not allow
dls unless you allow them.
mark
Al Taylor wrote:
I had the same thing happen
to me. Somehow a porn site widow opened up on the screen while I
was visiting a rather innocuous site. Every time I tried to close
the window two others opened up. In a matter of just a minute, I
had about twenty icons in my tool bar and they all were porn
sites. I shut the machine down and rebooted. All was ok when
it came back up but I noticed an odd folder in my favorites. I
opened the folder and there was a huge complete additional favorites
folder with about 10 sub folders and several links in each sub
folder. When I checked the properties on each one, they all had a
common thread.
Took me awhile to get rid of them all. I
did a search on the name I found in the properties and found several
other references to that name. I eventually deleted them
all. Just wish there was a way to send that site a small cyber
bomb. ;-)
Al
At 01:58 PM 2/3/2003, you wrote:
I
think it's called a parasite T'Flan! I got one on my computer and it
kept downloading stuff, changing my home page, and adding stuff until
it almost filled up my hard drive! It's called a parasite because it
hitches a ride on something you DID want to download and it just tags
along! Took me almost 14 hours to get it totally off the machine! Do a
Google.com search on Computer Parasites and you'll find what I am
talking about.
Ed
J.
- ----- Original Message -----
- From: tflan
- To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
- Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 1:33 PM
- Subject: Re: ShopTalk: Computer, not golf
- Yeah, maybe so, but it pisses me off
that I can't get rid of it. Every part of the thing, whatever the
hell it is, is gone from the computer. I was on drugstore.com site a
couple days ago and the screen flickered, and a warning came up.
"Danger" or something like that. I didn't pay much attention to it
until I got off line. Then I see a shortcut to some friggin' porno
site on my screen, and another thing on the tool bar. I clicked on
the toolbar thing and the modem went into action. I shut the
computer down instantly and rebooted. I dragged the shortcut to the
wastebasket and went to msconfig/startup. There, on the startup menu
was this .exe file. I unchecked it and started a folder search.
Found one called "dial up" or something like that. Deleted it.
Rebooted. Did another search for any combination of words in the
startup menu. Couldn't find another instance of it, but its still on
the startup page. I realize it can't run since everything
assoctiated with it has been deleted, but it still pisses me off.
-
- This "thing" got on my machine in less
than a couple of seconds. It isn't a virus. Norton's latest updates
scanned the computer and found nothing. I don't know what a "trojan"
is - a virus, I suppose, but this .exe file sure got on my machine
in a big hurry.
-
- TFlan
-
- ----- Original Message -----
- From: Corey Bailey
- To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
- Sent: Sunday, February 02, 2003 8:36 PM
- Subject: Re: ShopTalk: Computer, not golf
- Once you have un-checked the box in front of the line of copy,
that command is no longer loaded.
- If just having the unused command line there still bothers you,
you should see the clutter left in your registry.
- You can always have Norton System Works (or like software) clean
up your registry but, as far as I know, you aint gonna get rid of
that line in your start up menu anytime soon.
- Besides, you got better things to do with your time that is left
than worry about dust bunnies in your start up menu.
- CB
- At 05:40 PM 2/2/2003 -0800, you wrote:
- HI;
-
- Got a problem. Maybe a windows guru
can help. I have a line of typing on my startup menu I want to get
rid of. This isn't the "Start" button at the bottom of the tool
bar. Its the one I get when I type "run/msconfig/startup" I've
removed the program from the computer, I've run every "find"
function I can think of, and I've unchecked the box at the head of
the line of print. I want to get rid of the printed line as well.
I've tried highlighting and deleting but it doesn't do anything.
-
- How can I get rid of this line of
type?
-
- TIA
-
- TFlan
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