Apparently, the popups should only occur once a week (when the ad thing is allowed to write a cookie). I'll remove the counters tonight.

Martijn


On 9/7/05, Michael Jouravlev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Spybot found only one "Alexa related" item, and a bunch of tracking
cookies. Ad-aware removed 16 items.

I tried with MSIE again and did not see popup message this time.

On 9/7/05, Gwyn Evans < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [Sent direct as well]
>
> Michael,
>     Could you please do us a favour and check your system with some of
> the following and report the results?
>
>  Spybot S&D -  http://www.safer-networking.org/?page=download
>  Ad-aware - http://www.lavasoft.de/
>  - http://housecall.trendmicro.com/housecall/start_corp.asp
>
> The reason is that there are reports [e.g.
> http://www.excedra.com/ipccouncil/justin/viewoffender.php?f_id=58]
> that the popups come from infected PC's that have a Browser Helper
> Object that scans the content of websites visited for keywords in
> order to open pop-up advertising when and if they are detected on a
> site.  It's possible that Wicket is triggering some of the keyword
> searches.
>
> /Gwyn


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