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January 2, 2002 at 06:46 PM
andymah

Spyware / Adware Getting Nowhere

by andymah . Updated 24 years, 6 months ago

When I fired up IE6 today I started getting pop ups. It?s the same three or four nasty windows that keep coming back. I have tried AdSubtract, Ad-aware, Opt Out, etc. Ad-aware finds a Double Click cookie most of the time after I had the pop ups occur, but not all the time. I also tried RegCleaner and deleted a fair amount of junk.

All my MS Office updates are installed and I?m ?protected? by McAfee (OEM). It has caught Trojans in the past. I also went to Symantec?s site and gave their virus check a whirl. Nothing has helped.

One other observation: Every-so-often, Outlook Express would try to run. I have Outlook set as my default mail program.

My guess at this point is that I?m barking up the wrong tree. If anyone could offer some assistance as to what I?m overlooking I would appreciate it.

(WIN Me, Office 2000, IE6)

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