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I dunno if this has been asked before, but I gotta ask.

I've always hated pop-ups, but it's REALLY annoying when they start showing up before I've even started a web browser!  Seriously, I turn my comp on, go into FS for a buzz-around, and 5 minutes later, the damn game minimizes, and lo and behold... POP UP WINDOW!!!

ARGH!  It's pissin' me off!  I browse with Firefox, but the little buggers start up in an IE5 window.  I've got ZoneAlarm as a firewall and 4 different anti-adware/anti-spyware programs (Ad-Aware, Spybot S&D, Spyware Blaster), but still the little $h!ts keep showing up.  Makes me wanna beat up whoever invented pop-up windows...

Anyone know what's causing this and how I can bring an end to it?  THX!

512+ character strings in your registry...
Wait for ad-aware update

Nevermind!  I've been in contact with my dad, he's helped me narrow it down to a little Trojan called EliteBar and it's components.  Apparently it manifests itself as part of IE5 and delivers ads to one's comp!  Devilish little trick.  Working on clearing it out, now.

Nevermind!  I've been in contact with my dad, he's helped me narrow it down to a little Trojan called EliteBar and it's components.  Apparently it manifests itself as part of IE5 and delivers ads to one's comp!  Devilish little trick.  Working on clearing it out, now.

You really should be using IE5. Get IE6 and firebox.

I browse with Firefox, but the little buggers start up in an IE5 window

If you're talking about Mozilla Firefox, good luck. This program is a real shit. My high school use it. You can dowload files one time out of ten and as you wrote it the pop-ups are strangely blocked. It's supposed to block them so they don't appear but when Firefox blocks them it opens a new window. Useless you say ? I'd say really, really annoying. Not to say another word.

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This program is a real hog lubrication

Hem... don't ask me what is a "hog lubrication", I don't know. What the hell is that ? I never typed that ! Someone could give me an explication ? Hey, I ain't insane !! Why would I type "hog lubrication". Maybe I typed something not allowed and it has been replaced by that wonderful expression. It means something ? Help me guys, I actually have a bad feeling. As if the little frenchie I am was being gotten.

Alright. Mrs admins, that's something good to try to avoid people to write something politically incorrect. Now I now. Before I didn't. Very funny, isn't it. Hum... Hog lubrication. Awesome. Really.