Ive checked for viruses, none. Ive checked for spyware, even in safe mode, none. Ive even gone into the admion tools and checked the running services, and there are no strange looking ones.
Salvation, please?
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Found it: start>programs>accessories>system tools>system restore
Try rolling it back to the closest day before you brother visited all the sites. [ 07-24-2003: Message edited by: [PPZ]Kamikaze Gerbil ]
I have no idea where they came from, but I can only assume my brother clicked on something he shouldn't have. I've checked for spyware many times. It really pisses me off.
My parents do use this computer, and it pisses them off to no end, also.
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[PPZ]Kamikaze Gerbil's fortune cookie read:
If no one else can figure out something... Format, and quickly. If the parants asked why tell them something your brother did messed up the computer and you had to run the restore disc... Speaking of which if you have XP did you can try rolling the computer back to a automated back up. Forget how will poke around and see if I can find it again.
THOSE BACKUPS DON'T WORK
If you have XP, use the repair option. Not REPAIR CONSOLE. but repair installation. it rocks.
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Kegwen had this to say about Reading Rainbow:
REPAIR CONSOLE
What where how, please?
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Puggy the Squirrel stopped staring at Deedlit long enough to write:
I hav win2k pro, any alternative to formatting?
it might have a similar repair function, since it has the same bootable cd engine thingie. When you boot into it, choose install and stuff. it'll be like "omg you already HAVE windows installed! Would you like to repair this installation?"
if it does that, choose yes. that should pwn the bad stuff.
[ 07-24-2003: Message edited by: Tier ]
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Tier had this to say about Reading Rainbow:
Wait, what ARE you talking about, Keg? Repair console?
Repair console is the devil. "Hi, you can't do ANYTHING here. Have a nice day"
Whenever I'm having serious problems in Windows and I'd rather not format, I insert my bootable copy of Windows XP. It boots into the installer. I proceed as if I were goign to install a new copy of the OS on my system. When you would choose WHERE to install it, the installer goes, "hay bud, it's already installed. Repair this installation or delete it?".
I choose repair. It does it all on its own.
Win2k may or may not have this option. I haven't used it in a while.
When you go to reformat, before you can do anything it asks you if you're just planning to repair your Windows installation before you do anything else. Basically.
My Windows installation got pretty fucked up fairly recently, I used the repair console and it fixed it with very minimal hassle, which was surprising. I was preparing to reformat, but I had managed to avoid it by using the repair console and dinking around in there for a little bit. But the repair console isn't going to help get rid of popups. 
It was useless to Kegwen because he's clueless. 
ALSO: In contrast, repair installation has done jack-shit-all for me. [ 07-24-2003: Message edited by: Suddar ]
)edit: What kind of problems would one fix with repair console? Heh. [ 07-24-2003: Message edited by: Kegwen ]
That's the short term fix. Long term, it'll probably come back - so yeah, restoring the system or just reinstalling will be better.
That's one reason why you don't want to play Outwar. Whose ads do you think you're having pop up on you 
ben(at)netmastering(dot)nl
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Verily, Kegwen doth proclaim:
Repair console is the devil. "Hi, you can't do ANYTHING here. Have a nice day"
Oh, that. I thought you meant the WinXP System Restore. That thing is the bestest product to ever come out of the Microsoft labs. 
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Kegwen said this about your mom:
THOSE BACKUPS DON'T WORKIf you have XP, use the repair option. Not REPAIR CONSOLE. but repair installation. it rocks.
They save by butt the few times I really f'up XP.
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Puggy the Squirrel stumbled drunkenly to the keyboard and typed:
Ok so the other day my brother was playing that Outwar game and wanted to get some free points or something. So he went to a bunch of websites and agreed to all those "click yes to get the points" thingies. Well ever since then every webpage that loads, also popsup a porn popup. Now this is kind of a problem, because eventually my parents are going to want to use the computer...Ive checked for viruses, none. Ive checked for spyware, even in safe mode, none. Ive even gone into the admion tools and checked the running services, and there are no strange looking ones.
Salvation, please?
I've had to eradicate a few of these from a coworkers laptop. Depending on what popup it is you can sometimes do a search for it and find a way to remove the program. If it's the one I'm thinking of you have to remove all links to the program from the startup menu; but first right click and choose properties to see where it's running from and what the name of the program is (i.e. dialer.exe) because it's quite possibly also a dialer program. Delete the directory from your drive and empty the recycle bin. now click Start>Run and type regedit and do a search for the program or directory within the registry and remove any and all instances of it. Reboot and it should be gone.
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[PPZ]Kamikaze Gerbil had this to say about Tron:
They save by butt the few times I really f'up XP.
I tried them on several occasions on several different PCs...
It made my sister's laptop worse! Did nothing for me.
