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04-28-2004, 03:08 PM
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Symbol of Cyric
 Join Date: March 23, 2003
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Anyone know of a good, free ad/spyware" STYLE="text-decoration: none; border-bottom: medium solid green;" HREF="http://messagebroadcaster.net/bannerfarm/link/sw/sw.htm">spyware" STYLE="text-decoration: none; border-bottom: medium solid green;" HREF="http://messagebroadcaster.net/bannerfarm/link/sw/sw.htm">spyware (like Spybot) that I could use? It's really, really annoying with the popups that I'm getting, and I'm running scans with both Spybot and a fully updated Nortorn and still getting popups. I've tried some of the free adware" STYLE="text-decoration: none; border-bottom: medium solid green;" HREF="http://messagebroadcaster.net/bannerfarm/link/sw/sw.htm">adware" STYLE="text-decoration: none; border-bottom: medium solid green;" HREF="http://messagebroadcaster.net/bannerfarm/link/sw/sw.htm">adware, but most of them are scan only, and the others don't solve my problem.
For some detailed help, occasionally, I'll see a word like "job" STYLE="text-decoration: none; border-bottom: medium solid green;" HREF="http://search.targetwords.com/u.search?x=5977|1||||job|AA1VDw">job" STYLE="text-decoration: none; border-bottom: medium solid green;" HREF="http://search.targetwords.com/u.search?x=5977|1||||job|AA1VDw">job" underlined in green, in brown font. It's clickable, and takes me somewhere else. It's not supposed to be there; on my other computer, that same site doesn't give me it. Also, whenever I search on google, it gives me first a page of crap, then if I click for the next page, it gives the 'true' results. Is this what is supposed to happen? Oh, and if I search for 'adware blocker', it decides to spam" STYLE="text-decoration: none; border-bottom: medium solid green;" HREF="http://search.targetwords.com/u.search?x=5977|1||||spam|AA1VDw">spam up about 8 popups about adware blockers. Oh, and it just happened to my post. Example of what i'm talking about: TITLE= "Click for more information about spam" STYLE="text-decoration: none; border-bottom: medium solid green;" HREF="http://search.targetwords.com/u.search?x=5977|1||||spam|AA1VDw">spam [ 04-28-2004, 03:11 PM: Message edited by: Assassin ]
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In The Terminator, Sarah Connor is told a speech by John Connor\'s father that John has given in the future. When John is born, Sarah tells John this speech, and John grows up to tell it in the future. So who wrote the speech?! |
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04-28-2004, 03:27 PM
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Galvatron
 Join Date: June 24, 2002
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I think you want to use Spysweeper it's an awesome program and finds a lot more than Adaware and SPybot SD.
For popups you can install the google toolbar if it's in IE. If it's outside IE you might want to check your firewall's settings or get one if you haven't got one yet. Firewalls can catch of a lot of this stuff. Also if you still have trouble after a scan with spysweeper your firewall could help out. Most of the time those loose popups have to connect to the internet to popup, then you can locate the program and delete it. |
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04-28-2004, 03:36 PM
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Knight of the Rose
   Join Date: July 11, 2002
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That's one strange post. From what your describing with the search engine I'd have to guess you've been hijacked. I'm not entirely sure about how you'd go about fixing that myself as I've not encountered that problem myself.
If you haven't already tried it, you might try adaware from lavasoft.com [ 04-28-2004, 03:37 PM: Message edited by: Firestormalpha ]
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04-28-2004, 04:22 PM
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Quintesson
 Join Date: March 21, 2001
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skip using IE and use Mozilla Firebird, much safer and no popups! I use it and it works much better than IE ever did!
get it at download.com
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04-28-2004, 04:45 PM
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Symbol of Cyric
Join Date: March 23, 2003
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Thanks, but I've tried almost all of your suggestions already. I've narrowed it down to Sidesearch (http://securityresponse.symantec.com...idesearch.html) but I can't seem to make the bugger leave. I've deleted all of the files, etc., but it just doesn't show up in the add/remove program scrollbar, which might be the problem. Any help now?
[ 04-28-2004, 04:46 PM: Message edited by: Assassin ]
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In The Terminator, Sarah Connor is told a speech by John Connor\'s father that John has given in the future. When John is born, Sarah tells John this speech, and John grows up to tell it in the future. So who wrote the speech?! |
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04-28-2004, 04:50 PM
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Jack Burton
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What the hell is wrong with your post, Assassin? It's all fumbled up [img]graemlins/saywhat.gif[/img]
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04-28-2004, 04:59 PM
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Symbol of Cyric
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Good question; I tried fiddling around with one so that you could see what the link was, and I guess it screwed up the rest. =/
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In The Terminator, Sarah Connor is told a speech by John Connor\'s father that John has given in the future. When John is born, Sarah tells John this speech, and John grows up to tell it in the future. So who wrote the speech?! |
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04-28-2004, 05:04 PM
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Dracolich
 Join Date: August 28, 2001
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Your tags are all wrong bud.
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04-28-2004, 05:11 PM
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Knight of the Rose
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I think you wanted to do this: Sidesearch Am I right, Assassin?
Or are they referring to the first post? [ 04-28-2004, 05:11 PM: Message edited by: Firestormalpha ]
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04-28-2004, 05:11 PM
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Symbol of Cyric
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No. I wanted to edit my post. The thing after 'oh,' was the one I wanted to do to show you guys what the hell was happening. I guess it messed up everything else as well.
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