Screen pop-ups @ start up

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by NZ_Justice · 14 years ago In reply to Screen pop-ups @ start up

you probably have a resistry entry that opens this folder. run an application called 'hijackthis' and delete all suspect registry entries.

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by jwebfoot2togo · 14 years ago In reply to Screen pop-ups @ start up

hijackthis? I can't seem to find anybody else who heard of it so can't test what I can't find.

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by HAL 9000 Moderator · 14 years ago In reply to Screen pop-ups @ start up

Try looking at

http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/

The download is about halfway down the page you can also try Spy bot S & D available at

http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html

Or Ad aware available at

http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/

You may need to remove any spaces that have been inserted on the upload to get to the sights.

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by gary · 14 years ago In reply to Screen pop-ups @ start up

Another good tool is Startup Control Panel
http://www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml

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by jdclyde · 14 years ago In reply to Screen pop-ups @ start up

and don't forget to run all of the applications in safe mode!

in your registry, look in the "run once" and "run" sections.

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