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Name: Maloree
Date: August 16, 2002 at 09:03:04 Pacific
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I have IE6 when I recently updated from IE5.5 because whenever my daughter goes online she likes to go to Disney and Nickalodeon sites and vulgar/inhumane porn sites pop-up and cannot get them to go away (i.e. I X them out and 5 more pop up until I just have to restart the computer. I have tried Pop-up stopper and numerous other programs to keep this from happening even gotten COOKIES and TEMPORARY INTERNET FILES cleaner programs that didn't work. Now my daughter can't visit her favorite sites or play online games. WHAT IS HAPPENING!!?? PLEASE ANY HELP IS GREATLY APPRECIATED.



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Response Number 1
Name: n3985
Date: August 16, 2002 at 09:13:13 Pacific
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you'll jsut have to keeping closing them, a faster way is to press alt.+ f4 to close them, also, set pop-up stopper to the highest setting, that'll stop any and ALL pop-ups


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Response Number 2
Name: dude
Date: August 16, 2002 at 09:19:15 Pacific
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Here is a site that may help.
http://www.getnetwise.org/tools/


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Response Number 3
Name: Norm
Date: August 16, 2002 at 09:34:00 Pacific
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You may have one of these Hijackers,
AllCyberSearch
Cool-XXX
Duolaimi
IStartHere
NetzAny
PassThisOn
RocketSearch
SuperSexPass
UnderageHost

A good removal tool here

http://patrick.kolla.de/spybotsd.html


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Response Number 4
Name: Melanie
Date: August 16, 2002 at 10:01:41 Pacific
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DO NOT DOWNLOAD SPYBOT, it has it's own little trail of spyware it leaves behind too! Get Ad-Ware, it is awesome!!!!!! http://tomcoyote.com/lsindex.html which is the main download link for the Ad-Ware which is a removal tool and very easy to use, it is awesome. Beware that alot of spyware is bundled with players and programs like audiogalaxy, kazaa...etc....and some are called, GAIN, GTE, 3DE, Gator, Weatherbug, Downloadware, Cydoor, Click2Win, etc......but kazaa will not work without Cydoor on your system and a lot of the other programs for running the games will no longer work, that is the purpose of spyware so they can get your attention. They are famous for popups of obscenity..... but after you remove those, you can also go to www.panicware.com and download the free popup stopper, this way only when you need a window to come up after you sign in somewhere's or to play the actual games, you will get the hang of when to decide to let it through, you just press down the CRTL key and let it pop up, the other pop ups wont' get by 99% of the time unless you have DOWNLOADWARE on your computer. Go to your start/settings/control panel/add remove programs and if you have a program called DOWNLOADWARE uninstall it , if you have a program called MEDIA LOADER uninstall it then run the ADWARE program and uninstall the rest, if this doesn't work contact me i will help you more.......i done been there done that and helped my friends and family more than once, this can happen over and over to you when you allow software to be downloaded to your computer to play games or use file sharing software or AOL IM, ICQ...et.....good luck...... you can also get a gest of what I am talking about on this very site at page http://computing.net/windowsme/wwwboard/forum/24578.html


Melanie in Tampa, FL


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Response Number 5
Name: Norm
Date: August 16, 2002 at 10:22:02 Pacific
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DO NOT DOWNLOAD SPYBOT, it has it's own little trail of spyware it leaves behind too!

Can you back that up, with a link ?



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Response Number 6
Name: edsod
Date: August 16, 2002 at 13:07:35 Pacific
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Maloree USE Spybot AND Ad-aware to get rid of your problem!
Spybot Search & Destroy
http://patrick.kolla.de/spybotsd.html
Install spybot, updated it , click the "Online" tab, then "Search for updates". You don't need to update the main program, and you can ignore language updates.
Ad-aware
http://www.webattack.com/get/adaware.shtml


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Response Number 7
Name: Ichabod
Date: August 16, 2002 at 15:39:20 Pacific
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Once you get your machine clean go to the following site and download the HOSTS file. It consists of several pages of url's, most, if not all of which you will recognize as being offensive. Just rename your present c:\windows\hosts.txt by calling it "hosts.old" and replace it with the downloaded hosts.txt file. This works better than PopUp Stopper. In fact I removed PopUp Stopper altogether, and I am no longer pestered.

http://www.accs-net.com/hosts/


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Response Number 8
Name: TheKid
Date: August 16, 2002 at 17:04:10 Pacific
Reply:

Disregard the uninformed staement by Melanie.

Do some reading here;

Browser Hijacking

http://www.cexx.org/



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Response Number 9
Name: ShutMeUpOrDown
Date: August 16, 2002 at 17:56:37 Pacific
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If your getting random porn pop-ups while visitng disney a pop-up stopper wont help. Its like trying to fix a dam with scotch tape.

Read the links left by the kid to eliminate the problem.



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Response Number 10
Name: HukedOnFonixWerx4Mee
Date: August 18, 2002 at 02:30:40 Pacific
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Panicware.com has a pop up stopper that has what they call an "aggressive" option for stopping all the annoyances- I haven't used it on any Disney sites but I do know it's worked on other sites where you usually get hammered with 'em- Give it a try- it's free so there's really nothing to lose.


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