[thelist] Those damnable pop-ups

[Norman Bunn]

Time to try hijackthis.

http://www.tomcoyote.org/hjt/

Use the forums at http://forums.tomcoyote.org/ to post your log and get 
help.  I used this on a friends PC that had 5000 virus infected files 
and 2000 spyware/adware hits.  When done, the machine ran fine and I did 
not have to re-format the disk.

Norman

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Norman W. Bunn
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Jay Blanchard wrote:

>[snip]
>Dump-disable Microsoft Messanger... That's what it's using (and when you
>load Outlook, it starts MSM
>[/snip]
>
>That helped a lot. However, I am still getting an occasional pop-up,
>perhaps every five minutes or so. I have thrown several
>malware/spyware/av apps at it all morning, to no avail. Also, if I try
>to start the machine in safe mode it hangs...
>  
>