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downloadalot!!!!!
Name: James R. Hart Date: October 15, 2002 at 09:27:56 Pacific OS: 98SE CPU/Ram: 750 AMD/198M
Comment:
This "downloadalot" is driving me crazy. I've tried everything I can think of. Cookies, history, and temps. Still, every other time, or so, I open my IE, this darned "downloadalot" keeps poping in front of my home page. The home page is the default setting.....can someone please help me with this?
Name: oldsailor Date: October 15, 2002 at 10:29:34 Pacific
Reply:
James I went to Google and found out that Downloadalot is a shareware site. Try going to Start/Run/msconfig and look in the startup folder to make sure it hasn't been put in there. Their website is listed in Google and you could always send them an email and ask how to get rid of it.
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Response Number 2
Name: jose Date: October 15, 2002 at 12:01:34 Pacific
Reply:
holas
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Response Number 3
Name: James R. Hart Date: October 15, 2002 at 21:26:47 Pacific
Reply:
Oldsailor,
yes, there is a web sight, but it's exactly the page that's popping up. There is no address and I can't find an 800 number for them either...
can't find any mention of this in msconfig.. thanks for the input...
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Response Number 4
Name: mesich Date: October 16, 2002 at 08:09:26 Pacific
Summary: I downloaded a copy of internetnet explorer, from downloadalot and now my internet expolrer cannot go to microsorft.com web sites, I contacted searchalot, and they sent me to a site to pick up a fix-i...