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Old 09-06-2003, 10:18 AM   #11 (permalink)
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here is alink to lavasoft, they have aprogram that is called adaware
it will remove al the adware from your computer. is free and safe to use. sometime norton dont recognice adware and remove it. this found it. also do the uptate for windows xp, the security packs, amybe some site have hijacked your brouser or installed any program while you visited the malicuous site.
http://www.lavasoft.de/
try it is free, also configure it to check your cookies and favorites for any malicious cookie.
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Old 09-09-2003, 01:42 AM   #12 (permalink)
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well whaddya know, it was the Norton firewall that blocked them, i uninstalled norton, installed Zone Alarm and it works now!
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Old 09-09-2003, 02:55 AM   #13 (permalink)
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Glad you got it working... I know from experience that Norton can be tenacious..
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Old 09-09-2003, 03:06 AM   #14 (permalink)
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we used to have Norton Systemworks 2002 on Windows 98, and it was too strict for it (designed for XP) - it kept closing Explorer.exe
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