Q: My computer got hijacked by the Aurora pop-ups when IE is used causes. Before I continue, if you are telling me “do not use IE, Firefox, do not say anything.
There are times when applications start up IE, such as AIM and certain pages makes it impossible not to use IE.
I ran Adaware, which removes the registry entries, but when IE is used, they all come back. I downloaded the VX2 add-on lava true, but it is not Binder. Newest version of Symantec anti-virus up nothing.
Q: I cannot belive that I still get pop-up ads on my sons computer I have AVG virus scan with latest updates. I have run Adaware with latest updates (which raised loads of spyware). Ive pressed CTRL-ALT DEL and check all running programs (running XP Home by the way) and checked by running the startup of MSCONFIG, there could not find nothing. One suspect is a reg entry that was removed by AdAware, but has twice reapeared with the title of “purity scan”. Everyone has an idea what the hell is goin
Q: I have a search on this forum for pop-ups and was only trying to “Ad-aware.” I downloaded it and ran it. She has to get rid of a lot of apps and registry entries that were the cause of pop-ups, but I think there are many sites that they still do occur.
Is there a way to block them?
Q: My uncles computer has a problem with Internet Explorer and every time we had any URL typed we received a page not found error. DSL connection with Verizon was fine. Here are the steps my cousin and I found that this computer does not restart.
It Celero Dell Dimension 2200 is Intel with Windows XP Home. 128MB Ram.
1) removed AIM
2) Ran Spybot because the computer was the last time is very slow and many pop-ups were popish. I could not get rid of all the entri
Q: Im going to help a classmate. The computer is acting really slow and pop-ups to the point of sending e-mail really difficult.
The computer has probably have tons of spyware and possibly viruses.
What steps do you recommend to clean it or most of the problems.
Im going to load up some spyware software on my USB drive, Probable Spybot Search and Destroy and adware, but anyone recommend something for viruses?
Q: If ever I am using Windows Media Player I get ZoneAlarm pop-ups asking for permission WMP access to the Internet. Why is it doing this? Anyone know? Is the reporting ummmm . the content I use it with downloaded MP3s, porn?
Q: One of my friends PC is to provide a problem for the last few days. When a pop-up window appears, its just empty now. Java and Java Script enabled. Can someone please help? By the way, the problem happens in both IE and Netscape. Ive checked for any “hosts” file. But, no problems there. He uses Windows 2000, IE 6.0 and Netscape 7.0.
More information about the problem:
These pop-ups are “required” type. For example, when he went to music-related website, he wants an exam