Registered: Jan 2005
Location: Mississauga, Canada
Firewall, n00b.
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Aug-17-2006 02:37
VERTiG0
cunning linguist.
Registered: Dec 2003
Location: no longer Cambridge, Ontario, Canada
Install Firefox, problem solved.
Aug-17-2006 02:39
dallastar
~Dance~Sing~Floss~Travel~
Registered: Jul 2003
Location: 333 Half Evil ™
Re: Popup spyware on TA
quote:
Originally posted by 8Wonders
I just spent the last 3 hours fixing spyware which i so conveniently got from a popup ad here, thanks!!!
Not only did I get 1 but literally dozens, I had to turn off my internet connection so it would stop downloading new ones.
that's happened to me b4 - but it's m,y works computer. We even have firewall, why does this still happen? I dunno, but I find if you are not logged into TA it will do it more often, then if you are signed in. just log into TA when you come to the site and hope that it doesn't happen again...
cheers
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Aug-17-2006 02:40
8Wonders
Arnej
Registered: Mar 2002
Location: Toronto, Canada
quote:
Originally posted by VERTiG0
Install Firefox, problem solved.
Registered: Nov 2003
Location: Pandora (South of Nowhere)
TAs turned into the enemy?
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Aug-17-2006 02:48
DanR
Senior tranceaddict
Registered: Sep 2005
Location: Toronto & Waterloo
Do you know which ad
Aug-17-2006 02:49
8Wonders
Arnej
Registered: Mar 2002
Location: Toronto, Canada
quote:
Originally posted by DanR
Do you know which ad
I wish, it popped up, my system slowed down to a crawl, i checked taskman, uknown exes left and right, so i turn off the net, restarted the pc and proceeded to clean up the system
the most oddest of things is that one of the spyware components locked access to system32 folder, explorer would simply freeze trying to open it
my spyware didn't come from TA. I think it came from the version of Window Blinds that I had installed and well the spyware went right into my memory and nothing could fix it no matter how many scans I did with Ad-Aware or Spybot, so I had no choice but to format my whole computer last night.
How annoying.. especially when you forget to backup your email and favourites
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Aug-17-2006 03:51
*~LiSa-LoO~*
Ferry Corsten's bitch
Registered: Mar 2003
Location: on holiday
quote:
Originally posted by magikb
How annoying.. especially when you forget to backup your email and favourites
Ahhhh that's bitch!! It's happened to me in the past. Now I always back it up like 100 times, b/c I've lost some pretty important things before!
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Aug-17-2006 03:53
VERTiG0
cunning linguist.
Registered: Dec 2003
Location: no longer Cambridge, Ontario, Canada
quote:
Originally posted by magikb
format my whole computer last night.
Such is the story of this coming Saturday afternoon. But instead of XP Pro, Vista will be going on
Aug-17-2006 03:55
magikb
Home of Lix and Jenn²
Registered: Jan 2004
Location: on the other side
quote:
Originally posted by *~LiSa-LoO~*
Ahhhh that's bitch!! It's happened to me in the past. Now I always back it up like 100 times, b/c I've lost some pretty important things before!
yeah I lost quite a bit actually but what can you do
quote:
Originally posted by VERTiG0
Such is the story of this coming Saturday afternoon. But instead of XP Pro, Vista will be going on
oooh, that is what is possibly going on my laptop soon
A friend of mine is gonna help me out with it soon and getting my laptop to exactly how I want it.
