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Rampant IE popup windows
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From
23/10/2002 11:29:33
Hilmar Zonneveld
Independent Consultant
Cochabamba, Bolivia
 
 
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23/10/2002 11:24:56
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Forum:
Windows
Category:
Other
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00714391
Message ID:
00714394
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>Some users on my network are experiencing this strange behavior:
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>They have rashes of Internet Explorer pop-up windows appear on the desktop, from time to time even though they are not even in IE at the time! The pop-ups just show up. I am thinking some kind of spyware thing has gotten onto these workstations, because I have never heard of this happening before. I did some searches on Tech Net and other places without finding refereence to this.
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>Any ideas would be helpful.

Might be a virus. For spyware, the must-have program is the free download from www.lavasoft.de.

Hilmar.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
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