Re: web popup virus?

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From: neil klopfenstein
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 22:29

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Hiroko <jnapier@spam@21stcentury.net> wrote:
>I seem to have a virus that pops open web sites at random times.
>
>It spawns a IE session with only ... as the identifier, then it opens and
>ad.
>It has some intelligence since it wont open more than 3 ads at a time and
>sometimes will resize the window of my current app so I can't ignore the ad.
>
>How do I trace it down and kill it?
>It's not through my service provider.

 Try Ad-aware (www.lavasoftusa.com).. it locates and removes ad-ware that's
infected your system. Extremely useful.

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Subject: Re: web popup virus?
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