Averett

So I'm at my parents house on my old shitty Compaq with Windows 98... It's pop up hell. And from what I understand theres nothing you can do about Windows Messanger when you've got Windows 98. This true?

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phredgreen

i may be wrong, but i'm prtety sure that win98 dosen't use the messenger service. have you done a spyware/adware check to make sure there aren't any malicious programs running in the background?

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Averett

Yup, ran SpyBot. Still having pop up issues.

Grr.. and this keyboard sucks. imjust glad I dont use this reguarly!

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losthellhound

What is the home page set to? Alot of times it starts a window in the background that creates the pop-ups

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Averett

Yeah,thats another thing. I cant get the homepage to change. It doesnt stay set.

Right now it's
res://mshp.dll/index.html#27859

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Pellaz

Quick search says that that homepage is a symptom of CoolWebSearch, a nasty little piece of crap. You can get the removal tool here:

http://www.computercops.biz/downloads-cat-14.html,

edit:you want the shredder.

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Averett

I think I had downloaded that, only to discover that Zip isn't installed. Or something. I'll look into it more when I go back home...

Trying to convince them just to upgrade the damn thing.

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losthellhound

Well if you need any other help let us know

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-- Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death

Fallon

I swear, I should make a cd that has the following:
-Spybot: Search and Destroy
-Adaware
-AVG
-Zone Alarm
-A free archiving program

I just had to do this with my fiancee's computer because they were having the same issues on their computer. A quick run of Adaware fixed'm right up, along with a scan with AVG and they were as good as new.

bltzkriegmcanon

All that and Winamp and AIM would do quite nicely.

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sailor

CWShredder. It is specifically made to get rid of browser hijacking spyware. Ive used it to get rid of many a piece of spyware that Adaware/Spybot missed.

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Fallon

I gotta go get me some mini-cd's and start selling those things.

God of Thunder

Add Hijack This and and CWShredder to that list. I keep all of those and more on a CD already. Best tool in my stash.

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