Pop-Up with Spyware attached!!!

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Pop-Up with Spyware attached!!!

Postby Dakota93 » Thu Dec 25, 2003 11:23 pm

I'm not going to blame anyone because they may not be aware of this, or it may have been just a coincidence.

After connecting to the net my browse opened to the Sim-Outhouse as normal, I left here and went to Akemi's site then to Simviation, finally to AVhistory. While at Simviation a pop-up came up that dclared I had spyware on my PC. I dually closed the popup but noticed a couple of other windows open in the background that could not be closed manually, one was called windows. I had to close these from the Taskmanager. This should have set off alarm bells in my head but I failed to catch it. When I was done at AVHistory I hit home and was directed to the same pop-up and again the Windows window opened up. Before I could close things out again notepad pops open as does mediaplayer, I also found my homepage setting had been changed to the pop-ups URL. All of this is tryong to sell me a pop-up stopper.

This happened with my firewall in place, Zero Knowlege Freedom Firewall.
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Re: Pop-Up with Spyware attached!!!

Postby pete » Fri Dec 26, 2003 8:35 am

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