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Help: Serious Pop up problem

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout' started by Faos, Oct 17, 2003.

  1. meggoleggo

    meggoleggo Member

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    Do you have a firewall up? That might be a good idea to get that up. If you have XP there's one built into the system that's good enough, or you can download one. Zone Alarm seems to be quite popular.
     
  2. Faos

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    Thanks for all the suggestions. I had Ad Aware 5.0 already and just downloaded 6.0. It found 150 items that 5.0 didn't.

    So far, so good. I'm keeping my fingers crossed.
     
  3. sweetie

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    In order to use google toolbar you need explorer 5.5 or higher. I checked my version it says 5.00.29etc.... How do I upgrade to 5.5?
     
  4. Faos

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    It's been 45 minutes and I'm pop up free! Thanks guys and thanks Ad Aware 6.0 !
     
  5. DonnyMost

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    adware 6.0 really found that much more spyware on your comp than 5.0?


    sheesh.. maybe I should upgrade..
     
  6. DallasThomas

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  7. Faos

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    Yes...and it was a lot faster for some reason.
     

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