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[Michael S]

My PC has been working perfectly for quite some time now
so I decided to download all the patches that I currently
lack. Since that time, as soon as I open IE pop-up ads
appear about once every 10 seconds and just won't stop. I
am using the POP-UPs blocked from Microsoft, and also set
up restricted sites to prevent scripting. A little better
but still so annoying. I don't appear to have virus and am
using an up-to-date (pattern version 929) of trend virus
scanner which originally detected a virus troj_alchemic.A
that I thought may have been responsible but this has now
been removed and yet no improvement. Any help would be so
greatly appreciated that you will probably have to invent
new words to describe the extent.

 

[Don Varnau]

Hi,
An increase in pop-ups often appears to be related to updates from MS.
That's a complete mystery to me, but this is either Messenger spam
http://www.stopmessengerspam.com/ or (more likely) you have a program
running that's causing this.

Work through the solutions (CWShredder, Ad-aware, Spybot) at
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm Also note the security tips on that
page.

Additional information at:
The Parasite Fight http://www.aumha.org/a/quickfix.htm
Bugs, Glitches & Stuffups: http://www.mvps.org/inetexplorer/Darnit.htm

Hope this helps,
Don
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