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Name: Jason
Date: December 12, 2003 at 13:39:35 Pacific
OS: WinXP
CPU/Ram: AMD2000XP 512mb ddr
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Everyonce in a while a mysterious ad of sorts will play while I am on the computer. I don't know why it does it, and it didn't occur before I clicked on that stupid AIM link that has infected the entire universe. Any ideas? Anyone else having this problem? PLEASE!!!



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Name: ranchhand
Date: December 12, 2003 at 16:19:20 Pacific
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you got spyware on your computer, guaranteed. Read the posts here to learn what proggies you need to install & run.


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Response Number 2
Name: Jason
Date: December 12, 2003 at 20:15:47 Pacific
Reply:

ranchhand,

I have ad-aware, and spybot S&d. Also ran AVG anti virus. I have cleaned my system of everything except these weird audio ads. Any thoughts? Also ran CW shredder.

THANKS!


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Response Number 3
Name: David C. Kappelt
Date: December 16, 2003 at 19:52:55 Pacific
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This happens to me too... Ran every program imaginably... I dont understand?? SOMEONE HELP I AM MAD.


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Response Number 4
Name: Marieh
Date: December 18, 2003 at 14:40:17 Pacific
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I'm having the same problem. Only, for me it runs the audio ad (the most recent one was a movie trailer for "Paycheck") and my computer does a blue-screen for 2 seconds half-way through the trailer. When I reload, it SOMETIMES restarts successfully, but more-often-than-not, it restarts and plays more of the trailer, which doesn't play fully and my computer reboots again (w/ the blue screen coming up again for about 2 seconds). When it restarts this second time, it stays on and the windows error report window comes up. Microsoft's error reporting is lead to believe this error is something to do with a device driver that I have installed; I don't think so. But, I'm not exactly sure what the problem actually is (other than annoying).



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Response Number 5
Name: Abnormal
Date: December 20, 2003 at 14:57:11 Pacific
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AIM now displays ads! This has been happening for a couple months now.

The reason you only hear audio and not see any video, it is because of the DeadAIM program which strips the video part of the ads but not the audio. If you didn't have DeadAIM installed, you'd see the ad like on TV...

Quick way to get rid of it ? Dump AIM..... Otherwise you'll have to deal with the random ads....


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Response Number 6
Name: Abnormal
Date: January 15, 2004 at 09:38:08 Pacific
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A fix:
To stop this, put the sites ads.aol.com, ads.web.aol.com, VTOT.proxy.aol.com and ar.atwola.com in the restricted sites section of Internet Explorer. If you don't know, you can find this under tools, internet options and then security.

ads.aol.com
ar.atwola.com
VTOT.proxy.aol.com
ads.web.aol.com

after you do that, no more audio ads.



abnormal


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Response Number 7
Name: Marieh
Date: January 21, 2004 at 15:55:08 Pacific
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Thank you! I just did that and am anticipating the (much quieter) response! ;)


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