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Old Oct 16, 2006 | 06:41 PM
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help the fooking things have started all over the place for all sorts of crap can any one please help please
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Old Oct 16, 2006 | 06:59 PM
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do a free scan on http://safety.live.com

it should clean your probs
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Old Oct 16, 2006 | 07:23 PM
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Download Google toolbar mate, it basically sits on your toolbar in your browser and it stops popups and does other things aswell like searching etc so you dont have to load up a website to search for stuff http://www.filehippo.com/download_google_toolbar/
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Old Oct 16, 2006 | 07:53 PM
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also

right click my computer

the click manage

then, click services and applications

then click on services

then scroll down to messenger

double click this

then click stop,

then change startup type to disabled


hope that helps.

it's spiky...ooops, logged in at pauls house
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Old Oct 16, 2006 | 08:36 PM
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just use firefox as your browser and you'll never see a pop up again
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Old Oct 16, 2006 | 09:04 PM
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Originally Posted by aduz
just use firefox as your browser and you'll never see a pop up again
amen to that
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Old Oct 16, 2006 | 09:06 PM
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Originally Posted by aduz
just use firefox as your browser and you'll never see a pop up again
yeah i was going to surgest that but most people have I.E so i just gave him the google toolbar, although id highly recommend firefox, i havent got google toolbar or anything and i never get pop ups
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Old Oct 17, 2006 | 06:27 AM
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he was speaking about popups that suddenly began to appear everywhere, it seems. So it has nothing to do with a browser's anti popup function (which IE 6 SP2 has been having for a long time, btw ) but it's more like a spyware on his machine, so changing browsers won't help at all
As i said, do a spyware check with the link i gave above
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