I've been getting pop up ads on AG lately.

I didn't click to accept Gator or Web Accelorator either.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...

Yep, all older versions of AG apparantly had that little gem. Do a search on your hard drive for vx2.dll. If you find it, your infected

Download Ad Aware, it will remove such spyware programs.... I use it daily, and it works awesome.

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i've been getting ag pop-ups too, but thanks to panicware, they've been killed

while we're on the subject, read this: http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/intern....idg/index.html

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Users often skip reading the terms of service when installing software, and most people probably don't know that they installed Brilliant's software when they set up KaZaA on their PCs, Burmeister says.

and since we're there, bill gates got fooled by and april fool's joke!
http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/indust...reut/index.html

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Originally posted by nrjizer Yep, all older versions of AG apparantly had that little gem. Do a search on your hard drive for vx2.dll. If you find it, your infected

so can u delete this file or what? is it safe to do so?

many thx

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Originally posted by d-jay MyTH so can u delete this file or what? is it safe to do so? many thx

Yeah delete this file (i did when i heard about this nasty file), the worst that could happen is that audiogalaxy may not work properley, if so uninstall it, and download the latest version which doesent include the dll file


Jon

do myou know wich version of ag has the nasty file?

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Originally posted by Jpx do myou know wich version of ag has the nasty file?

I dont know, but if you do a search for the dll file and it isnt there, your version is clean!

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Thanks Jon and nrjizer for your help.

TiestoITM & Thor:

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Have you had an ad pop-up while you've been browsing lately? Has it happened on a site that doesn't normally have popups? But you run adaware, right? Think you've blocked all spyware and embedded ad-serving software? Wrong. (Update the latest version of Adaware 5.62 and the new reference file will catch it, you must make sure to be using the latest reference file.)

....might want to double check that. It's not just those annoying popups , it's the fact that they can monitor your private information if you're not careful. Rat bastards.

I only recently downloaded AG on my current system so I should be ok, but I am going to check for those .dll files.

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theres another such site which monitors alot of ur activity thru the use of cookies...doubleclick.net

I have an older version of Ad-aware, but i recently updated the reference file, should that make a difference?
( i already got rid of the Dll file)

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