ie6 assistance needed 2004-04-04 - By Dave Angelini
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Rorr Konn,
I had the exact same problem on my wife's laptop. We use that laptop for
all external web-browsing, whereas my PC is used for tS, financial work and
visiting known and trusted web-sites.
But somehow, something got loaded onto my wife's laptop that turned it into
pop-up city. What was also bizarre is that you could NOT be running any
browser and all of a sudden a pop-up would appear (invariably telling me
that someone was looking at my PC or that I should buy their pop-up
killer...yeah...right!). I loaded Clean-Sweep from McAfee which purportedly
looked for spyware or adware, but that was no good (it helped some, but not
enough). We suffered for weeks.
Thankfully, Ted's recommendation for Ad-aware did the trick. It found like
182 files (registries, cookies, etc.) in a deep clean which really made an
improvement.
All is fine now and my home page will load, but it does so via a redirection
through some-other web-site window...that is, my home page is at the top of
the window there is a weird series of icons and controls in the bottom of
the browser either directing me to gambling, shopping or worse type of
sites. You can close it and all is fine, but it is still annoying. Anyone
know how to get rid of that?
Thanks,
Dave Angelini
-- -- Original Message -- --
From: "Norm Fortier" <norm@(protected)>
To: <truespace@(protected)>
Sent: Sunday, April 04, 2004 12:02 PM
Subject: Re: [TSML] ie6 assistance needed
> If you hit alt+f4, you can close a browser window safely. It is entirely
> possible to program buttons on browsers so yes means no and no means yes
(or
> any other type of scenario you are given to choose).
>
> Some may be aware of certain sites that when they get loaded into your
> browser, can begin to instantiate multiple browser windows in rapid
> succession. These windows are various sizes and in different locations,
> making the process of shutting them down, difficult. One can load and
spawn
> another 20, one of which can spawn another 20 and you end up with no
> resources or worse.
>
> The alt+f4 combo (hold down the alt and rifle a few f4's to begin closing
> all the windows) will give you that quick-shot on the F4 key and you can
> overtake them. You can put your "gamer" skills to use :)
>
> I believe the term is "spy-ware". The Adware is good for quick clean.
>
> ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
> Norm Fortier
> Team Caligari
> www.caligari.com
> ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
>
>
> -- --Original Message-- --
> From: Curtis W. Tooley [mailto:cwtooley@(protected)]
> Sent: Sunday, April 04, 2004 11:15 AM
> To: truespace@(protected)
> Subject: Re: [TSML] ie6 assistance needed
>
> You have a browser HiJack.
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