TOMLION Posted September 21, 2004 Share Posted September 21, 2004 a mate of mine is having trouble with his p/c can anyone help thanks in advance. This is what happens Switches on goes to Internet Explorer,. Comes up Virgin (which is who he is with) but then it changes to something else and won't let him in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jarrek Posted September 21, 2004 Share Posted September 21, 2004 Looks like spyware to me ... run ad-aware from Lavasoft http://www.lavasoftusa.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redhat Posted September 21, 2004 Share Posted September 21, 2004 quote:Originally posted by Jarrek Looks like spyware to me ... run ad-aware from Lavasoft http://www.lavasoftusa.com Yep, spyware! You can buy spystopper software, try Jarrek's ad-aware, or upgrade Zonealarm that can detect it and quarantine it. I suggest that your friend may also have to change his IE6 settings for blocking certain sites from pop-ups and cookies. I just had this happen to my home notebook PC, and it's really annoying ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loud Mouth Soup Posted September 21, 2004 Share Posted September 21, 2004 Forget IE altogether. Mozilla Firefox is the browser to use...and pop-ups are blocked without special downloads and spyware is all but gone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Former Champ Posted September 22, 2004 Share Posted September 22, 2004 I use AVG Anti-virus. It was free and i downloaded it off the net. Another thing you can try is erase all of the cookies on your hard drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jarrek Posted September 22, 2004 Share Posted September 22, 2004 The latest version of IE has an automatic popup blocker as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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