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08-December-03, 08:51 PM
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| Sk8-Hoe-r  Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Chesterfield, MI
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   |  Pop Ups Today i came home from school (computer was on all day) and i got about 2-3 taskbars full of pop ups. (the pr0n ones) i havent gone on it or anything. So im thinking its some crap so i run spybot and adaware and then i leave the computer on since 6:45 (its 8:50) and get home right now and there is still one that poped up. I dont know how to get to the last thing thats causeing it. I really dont want to reinstal cause then i have to reinstal all my programs and all that crap. (and its a fairly new install) Thanks
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08-December-03, 09:18 PM
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| King of the Noobs!  Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: San Jose, CA
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| Check your ad/remove programs and see if there is anything that is out of the ordinary. If you have Norton Systemworks, look at the Installed Intenet Componets and Apps/Plugins...you might find it there. Rerun Adaware and make sure it's updated...close all programs when you run it.
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08-December-03, 09:36 PM
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| Etiquette & English Gentleman Join Date: Aug 2002
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That's your answer then. Solution : http://www.doxdesk.com/parasite/Winshow.html
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08-December-03, 09:49 PM
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| Sk8-Hoe-r Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Chesterfield, MI
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| it didnt work, it gave me some error when i went into dos and tried that. and i looked in the windows folder for any winshow stuff and none was there. also i searched the computer for *winshow* and it didnt find anything. mabey adaware got it and its still in the add/remove programs window. any other ideas.
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08-December-03, 10:01 PM
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| Sk8-Hoe-r Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Chesterfield, MI
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| im going to bed so ill leave the computer on all day tommorow and see if anything comes up. if it does well i gotta figure out what it is and if not thank you adaware!! good night 
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08-December-03, 11:08 PM
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| Review Pimp, but still Jo's Ho  Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Las Vegas, NV Most modded city in the world
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| I just went through something like this. I would run spybot and ad-aware and things would keep comming back then it all stoped. I cannot honestly say what I did to finally get rid of it. I was just glad I didn't have to reformat. Sorry I can't be of more help.
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09-December-03, 02:42 PM
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| Sk8-Hoe-r Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Chesterfield, MI
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| well something set my homepage to find4u or something like that. also when i started up my copmuter it gave me some runtime error. and when i shut down it says some program winmin is being ended. messenger is already disabled.
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09-December-03, 02:48 PM
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| Light My Fire  Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: closer than u think... Flames: 26,134
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   | go to start/run and type in MSCONFIG once it opens, go to the SERVICES tab check the little box at the bottom that says HIDE ALL MICRO$OFT SERVICES look thru the programs that are left behind and if any look suspicious, uncheck each and reboot
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09-December-03, 02:51 PM
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| King of the Noobs! Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: San Jose, CA
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| If you have tried everything mentioned above, you might want to consider Formatting and Reinstalling or hopefully restoring it from a backup (if you have one). Before you give up, keep looking around your system and see if you can find something that is causing the problem. Don't know what else to tell ya. This is a hard one to trouble shoot without looking at your system. Reminder to all: Use a Pop Up Blocker, Don't click where you should not and Don't install programs that could possibly contain crap like this.
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09-December-03, 04:12 PM
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| Sk8-Hoe-r Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Chesterfield, MI
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| one last thing im going to try, ill get a copy of symantec antivirus and install it and see if it helps. but until then thanks for all the help and if anyone has any more ideas please post. thanks
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09-December-03, 04:53 PM
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| Sk8-Hoe-r Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Chesterfield, MI
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| would it be ok to burn all my stuff on to cd to backup or is there a chance the crap will follow with it? and fuel that didnt work , all that poped up is ati stuff. so no go.
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09-December-03, 05:43 PM
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| King of the Noobs! Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: San Jose, CA
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| A long as your Saving Files (ie Word Docs, Game Saves etc) and not System Files...you should be ok copying all your stuff so you do not lose it all. But see what else you can do before you take that route...it might be worth your while to keep trouble shooting this.
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