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by tman12

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I have a Win 2K P.C that is overcom by pop up windows with IE 5.5. I can reboot the p.c and not even have IE running, and 30 - 45 minutes later, ther will be 10-15 advertisements. I have scanned for a virus, and it checks clean with NAV. I looked for programs running in memory, and see nothing unusual. (I was looking for something related to i-won possibly.) Any suggestions?
P.S. I have added the Group Policy snap-in alreday but it shows un-configured.

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by alpha-male

You have gotten one of the ad-ware/spyware programs on your system...take a look in your add/remove programs for something suspicious.

Usually these are in with file sharing programs and the like...

These things "feed" ads to you whether you're in IE or not and I've removed them from many peoples systems. They are about as annoying as anything on the net today...and I think the people who infest our systems with this BS and try to force these ads on us should be burned at the stake.

Nah....I'm not annoyed....

Good luck!

by kelsey

Check your msconfig for anything unusal on startup that might be hard to notice or hidden.

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