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I just got a new Dell Inspirion 1525 with Windows Home Premium Vista. We I
am connected to the internet Advertising pop ups keep coming up from Internet Explorer. My pop ups are blocked. The address starts out at www.weeweewee.com and then goes to an advertisement. Can anyone tell me how to stop this? |
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Sounds like spyware/malware.
Run scans with Defender and AntiVirus, if that doesn't get rid of it, I like spybot search and destroy to remove spyware. "CharmedGuy" <CharmedGuy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:257018F1-32EC-41A5-8A0E-79824919C6E9@microsoft.com... >I just got a new Dell Inspirion 1525 with Windows Home Premium Vista. We I > am connected to the internet Advertising pop ups keep coming up from > Internet > Explorer. My pop ups are blocked. The address starts out at > www.weeweewee.com and then goes to an advertisement. Can anyone tell me > how > to stop this? |
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CharmedGuy wrote:
> I just got a new Dell Inspirion 1525 with Windows Home Premium Vista. We I > am connected to the internet Advertising pop ups keep coming up from Internet > Explorer. My pop ups are blocked. The address starts out at > www.weeweewee.com and then goes to an advertisement. Can anyone tell me how > to stop this? Okay, just because it says Internet Explorer in the window title (it will always say that) doesn't mean the popups are coming from "Internet Explorer". I seriously doubt that this is something Dell installed either, it looks very much like spyware / adware to me. Try Spybot as suggested and try to remember anything else you might have installed since you got the machine - usually this kind of thing is advertised as some "Utility" that sounds like it should be useful. |
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On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 23:38:00 -0700, CharmedGuy
<CharmedGuy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: >I just got a new Dell Inspirion 1525 with Windows Home Premium Vista. We I >am connected to the internet Advertising pop ups keep coming up from Internet >Explorer. My pop ups are blocked. The address starts out at >www.weeweewee.com and then goes to an advertisement. Can anyone tell me how >to stop this? Are you running Windows Defender? Even if you are, you probably should download and run a few more malware scanners: Spybot Search and Destroy http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/ Spyware Blaster http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html SUPERantispyware http://www.superantispyware.com/ |
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On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 23:38:00 -0700, CharmedGuy
<CharmedGuy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: >I just got a new Dell Inspirion 1525 with Windows Home Premium Vista. We I >am connected to the internet Advertising pop ups keep coming up from Internet >Explorer. My pop ups are blocked. The address starts out at >www.weeweewee.com and then goes to an advertisement. Can anyone tell mehow >to stop this? 3 things. 1st google for www.weeweewee.com and see if anyone else is reporting this problem. Look for a fix. 2nd temp & permanent fix is add '127.0.0.1 www.weeweewee.com' to your hosts file. You'll never see it again. 3rd fire up your browser IE7, open the tools tab. Scroll down to toolbars. See if there's anythingthere that you did NOT install. If there is, take and open add/remove programs section and see if it doesn't also exist there. remove it. 4th would be the registry where You check these entries HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run see if there isn't an easily identifiable entry that relates to the popup. 1st backup your registry from the export menu with export all. 2nd RENAME the key, DON'T delete until you know what you're changing won't kill your machine. The #1 google should do the trick. #2 hosts file will also. Lastly Complain to Shannon at www.weeweewee.com about this annoyance, it can't hurt. -- more pix @ http://members.toast.net/cbminfo/index.html |
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