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Name: Devilfish
Date: June 12, 2005 at 16:49:37 Pacific
OS: Windows XP Home Edition S
CPU/Ram: Intel Celeron 2.93GHz CPU
Comment:

I have recently been experiencing 2 very annoying problems with my computer:

1. Whenever a particular word is in view, a small message box comes up saying that particular word and the only button to click is 'OK'. Some examples of these words are: Hotmail, MSN, Password, Secure, Personal, Login and Sign in. So, say I go to sign in to my hotmail account, most of these messages come up at once and i can't proceed unless I click the 'OK' button to move the message boxes out of the way. Not only is this a very strange problem it is VERY annoying and I can't seem to prevent it from happening.

2. When I right click on something on my desktop, it takes a couple of seconds to load the menu due to the fact I have quite a lot of options available on it. The problem, however, is that when I do this 2 cmd-prompts come up and disappear by themselves. This is very frustrating because it closes my right-click menu so I am unable to select these options until I am able to prevent this from happening.

If anyone has any advice concerning these problems it would be much appreciated.

Thanks in advance



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Name: Oz13
Date: June 28, 2005 at 05:44:04 Pacific
Reply:

Both them do sound like you have some sort of either virus or ad-aware problem, have you tried running any applications in regards to your problems like an anti-virus (like norton, mcafee, or avg), or spyware and adaware application(lava-adaware, spybot, xoft)?


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Name: Devilfish
Date: July 1, 2005 at 12:35:57 Pacific
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Yes, I have tried many different virus and spy/adware scanners, no luck. I decided to just simply remove some of the options from the context menu by deleting their registry keys which has prevented that annoyance, but I'm still experiencing the annoying pop-up box. I just can't seem to stop it from happening because I can't figure out what's causing it. Nobody I know has experienced this problem before, and it's extremely annoying and very strange.


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