[pchelpers] Re: IE browser spontaneously opening 1 to 7 full screen windows
- From: "Cyril Halbach" <cyril.kr3y@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: pchelpers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 23:43:06 -0400
John,
The system has an active updated AVG Personal Antivirus. It was getting
so late and I could not think of a good site that could be used to do a
scan. If you know one to suggest I would appreciate it. Right now I think I
will get to bed and look tomorrow. I seem to remember one somewhere in the
Kim Komando responses but will look tomorrow.
Thanks for the response. Cy
On 6/12/06, John Durham <john.modec@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Scanning with Adaware was a good idea, but given the symptoms it could
> be a browser hijack or even a virus/Trojan. What sort of antivirus
> action can you take to be safe? (Given the possibility, what chance of a
> passive scan for virus can be done?). Do you need instructions?
Cyril Halbach wrote:
> > My daughter's XP system with all the Windows updates as well as updates
> and
> > having run both Spybot and AdAware and it still has has some kind of a
> > problem. Firefox is the default browser but IE is opening up
> spontansously
> > with web pages full of ads from multiple http://ad.c???????.com/ etc.
> web
> > sites. I cannot figure out what is bringing them up nor how to prevent
> > them.
> > Using msconfig I removed everything from Start that looked suspicious
> but
> > nothing had any good effect. I thought I recalled back some time ago
> that
> > someone on PCHLEPERS had something similar. I do not recall if there
> was a
> > solution to the problem. Appreciate any suggestions.
> >
> > Cy
>
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