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internet explorer page keep opening ?
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| eddy22 2005-05-16, 6:05 am |
| I heed help.
When i am using internet explore (6), every now and then new windows start opening and keep opening. one after the other. I can not stop this from happening. All I can do is to reboot my computer.
Any help would be appreciated. | |
| enforcer 2005-05-16, 6:32 am |
| First stop going to the porn, warez and crack sites
and then look into hijackthis and adware programs.
Also make sure your AV software definitions are up to date. | |
| KiwiPete 2005-05-16, 6:56 am |
| That's uncharacteristically unhelpful of you, Your Popeness.
The guy obviously has no idea what to do, given that he just reboots to "solve" the problem. Plus, this is his first post.
Eddy, download (preferably from another computer) Spybot from here, Ad Aware from here, and a stand-alone virus scanner called Stinger from here.
Run those apps on the problem PC & if possible, go online to download the latest updates for Spybot & Ad Aware before running them.
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| enforcer 2005-05-16, 7:47 am |
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Originally posted by KiwiPete
That's uncharacteristically unhelpful of you, Your Popeness.
I am not a German ex member of the Hitler youth thanks 
He must have put his towel down on the Papal chair before the body was even cold | |
| KiwiPete 2005-05-16, 6:17 pm |
| Yeah, I guess if I was Pope's Little Helper for 20 years or whatever, I'd jump into the seat, too.
Not that this is going to help fix eddy's machine.
Maybe this will help:
Why Computers Sometimes Crash
By Dr. Seuss.
If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port, and the bus is interrupted at a very last resort, and the access of the memory makes your floppy disk abort, then the socket packet pocket has an error to report.
If your cursor finds a menu item followed by a dash, and the double-clicking icon puts your window in the trash, and your data is corrupted cause the index doesn't hash, then your situation's hopeless and your system's gonna crash!
If label on the cable on the table at your house, says the network is connected to the button on your mouse, but your packets want to tunnel to another protocol, that's repeatedly rejected by the printer down the hall. !
And your screen is all distorted by the side effects of gauss, so your icons in the window are as wavy as a souse; then you may as well reboot and go out with a bang, 'cuz sure as I'm a poet, the sucker's gonna hang.
When the copy on your floppy's getting sloppy in the disk, and the macro code instructions is causing unnecessary risk, then you'll have to flash the memory and you'll want to RAM your ROM, and then quickly turn off the computer and be sure to tell your Mom! | |
| enforcer 2005-05-17, 5:42 am |
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Originally posted by KiwiPete
Not that this is going to help fix eddy's machine.
You do not believe in the power of prayer?  | |
| yanqui 2005-05-17, 11:54 am |
| Firefox! with the pop-up blocker enabled.
I haven't gotten one pop-up since installing Firefox.
Eddy, that's a browser alternative to Internet Explorer. YOu can't get rid of IE, but using Firefox as your default web browser will solve not only this problem but a host of others as well.
Sometimes you guys try to make things too difficult. (Almost slipped and used the word Hard) | |
| Redstar 2005-05-18, 1:32 am |
| Start-run-msconfig
Go to msconfig and c what's all starting up in startup and services (be sure to ck hide all microsoft services). If you have things like deep discount starting up, then you know you got problems. You can find out what each program does there by google searching it. If it says it's adware/ spyware then you got that problem. Get yourself a good spyware program and run it. You can get a free beta spyware program at www.microsoft.com or try spyware doctor at www.download.com. Note the MS one is a beta version and does have know bugs, but it will get the job done for you. | |
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| download a program called cwshredder from another computor the link should be
http://www.intermute.com/spysubtrac...r_download.html
install it on your machine and run it.you most likely got a trojan on your computor.but it would be helpful if you could've put your OS down.different OSes have different ways to mannually delete trojans. but cwsfredder work great just run it and it takes it out no extra steps necessary.most likely your IE-main-home page changed too to something like cool web search their the biggest culprit of this new trojan thats a pain in thee XXX to remove.if you miss just one part it can restore its self. also mannually change your IE home page to something else then run cwshredder again to make sure you got it all.
also looks like firefox got a few problems too found this on the web
Bad news for the other guys: For a change, the vulnerability news of the week didn't include Microsoft. Firefox users were advised by the Mozilla Foundation to turn off javascript in the browser until a fix is available. The news comes on the heels of an announcement that 50 million copies of the browser have been downloaded. It hasn't stopped Firefox's growth, apparently; eWeek reported that Firefox is now the favored browser for seven per cent of Internet users A patch for Firefox was released Thursday.
Meanwhile, up Highway 237 in Cupertino, Apple released a patch for iTunes that would allow an attacker to gain control of a computer running the software. The company also released patches for the Mac OS X v10.3.9 operating system just a few days after it released OS X v10.4.
now browsers really safe.just some are harder to crack | |
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| also I run adaware, pop-up cop all the time, and AVG 7. their is a free version of AVG 7 out as version 6 support was killed off by AVG.also its best to have several adware-spyware checkers and antivirus programs just don't run virus programs at the same time, they generally identify each other as a virus. | |
| KiwiPete 2005-05-22, 8:11 pm |
| [whispers]Did we scare Eddy off?[/whispers]
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