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03-28-2004, 03:47 PM
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Spyware Prob
My g/f has been having prob with spyware. Whenever she is connected to the net popups will appear advertising all sorts of crap. The popup is not in the form of a webbrowser but looks like a windows dialogue box (With the Ok and Cancel buttons). I downloaded Bazooka Spyware Scanner and it turned up nothing.
Is there another free Spyware Scanner that is better. Or do you have any idea what else it could be. Thanks |
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03-28-2004, 04:10 PM
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03-28-2004, 04:10 PM
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Here is a pic of the popup. It appears as though it is coming through a program but I can't find out what it is. She isn't running anything that I can see.
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03-28-2004, 04:14 PM
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And another...
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03-28-2004, 04:20 PM
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Get Spy-Bot and Adaware from the links above and run them. Also might be worth running an anti-virus... but I am parinoid so I always think that
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03-28-2004, 04:40 PM
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Uninstall windows messenger, thats how they are comming in, i think.
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03-28-2004, 05:09 PM
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Windows Messanger being Start>Run>msconfig>Services>Messanger
or the better way of Administrative Tools>Services... Cleaner interface Correct? Just making sure there isnt another messanger 
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03-29-2004, 06:38 AM
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Stop and disable the "Messenger" service.
Control panel, administrative tools, services. |
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