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Pop Up - WSTOOLS revisited

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout' started by Rocket River, Jul 28, 2004.

  1. Rocket River

    Rocket River Member

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    How the hell do you get rid of this sh*t

    Pop ups are annoying the hell out of me
    and it seems XP just hold on to EVERYTHING

    GGRRRRR

    Rocket rIver
     
  2. rhadamanthus

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    1) Download and run:

    Adaware
    Spybot

    2) Then download and install Mozilla Firefox.

    3) Never use Internet Exploder again.

    :)
     
  3. jondoe654

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    the google toolbar blocks popups really well. also download adaware and spybot for safety sakes. and didnt firefox just have a huge security problem??
     
  4. rady

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  5. Vengeance

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    It wasn't a security problem with firefox, it was a security problem with windows that firefox opened. It was patched within an hour of being found to be a security vulnerability. Those big holes that were exploited in IE last month still haven't been patched.
     
  6. FrancisFan

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    For what its worth, they're both IE based.
     
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  8. Vengeance

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    Yeah, I've seen that one too, but I thought johndoe was referring to the one I made the thread about.

    Still waiting on those IE patches . . .
     
  9. Sonny

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    http://toolbar.google.com

    Yahoo and MSN also have pop-up blocking toolbars.

    They also make the google toolbar for Mozilla Firebird.
     
  10. Rocket River

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    Thanks for the help. I will put on the Google Toolbar
    but
    is there a way to simply remove it from my system
    everytime i Uninstall it. . .it comes back

    MSCONFIG
    ADD/REMOVE PROGRAMS
    nothing works

    Rocket River
     
  11. rhadamanthus

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    It is in your registry - unless you REALLY know what you are doing, I recommend you let adaware try to take care of it.
     
  12. rady

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    yes, but they got tabs and pop-up blocks:)
     
  13. Rocket River

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    Something is driving my CPU USAGE up to 100%
    all the time. I thought it was a Virus or the Pop Ups
    but i am still having the problem

    Rocket RIver
     
  14. FrancisFan

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    Look at your processes that are running
     

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