The free program "Adaware" from lavasoft.com might help. I've used it to clean out malware.
--- On Wed, 4/14/10, Wilhelm Sanke <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Wilhelm Sanke <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: OT: Microsoft is really annoying! > To: "RunRev Ltd" <[email protected]> > Date: Wednesday, April 14, 2010, 11:09 AM > I had just written: > > > Since this morning - after 2 automatic updates on my > WindowsXP PC, which took place when I shut my computer down > after the first session - I am constantly being pestered by > the Microsoft Internet Explorer popping up when I connect to > the net. When I close the Explorer with the dialog "Internet > Explorer is your default web browser? Yes, No" (or similar) > with the "no" button, it closes, but reappears after a > while. > > > > This is a real nuisance! > > > > Anybody else has experienced this, too? > > > In the meantime during a half hour this happened 4 times. > > Last time the website > > http://www.planet49.com/cgi-bin/wingame.pl?partner_pk=607&wingame_pk=74&sub_id= > > came up with the Internet Explorer, featuring iMac, iPhone, > and iPad, and telling me to choose my gift - and to solve a > problem before and submit my data. > > and 5 minutes later while I am writing this: > > http://www.freelotto.com/register.asp?skin=Rainbow&noepu=1&partner=1060965&affiliateid= > > congratulating me to have won 2,087.56 $. > > Happily my - apparently my somewhat obsolete and slow- > virus-detecting program stepped in at that point and I > deleted the trojan. Hope this is the end of the story. > > Sorry to have bothered you with this crap. > > Regards, > > Wilhelm Sanke > > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage > your subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
