"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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Yup. That was me. And 4 days after I said it my computer at home picked
up some kind of spyware thing. I keep getting pop-ups trying to sell me
everything from cars to vacations to dates with beautiful, single women.
It's not porn crap or anything ... just annoying junk. I went to
Microsofts's Security Website and did an on-line scan and fix doober. It
found and corrected a worm, but there was one file it said it could not
fix. The computer ran ok for a while, then the stupid pop-ups started all
over again. I adjusted the pop-up blocker to prevent *any* pop-ups, but
they still come through.

I'll take it to a computer shop and let them clean it up.

Eisboch

Spyware Doctor. It will clean that one off, run in the background, and
update itself. Works for me.

Thanks. It's not a huge issue, but more of a pain. My prior experiences of
trying various monitoring and protection software like Norton and others
were that they bogged the computer down sometimes and were constantly
requiring you to upgrade, download, or something. Plus, my computer has
always run fine while my wife's computer which has every protection device
known to the computer world installed, is always slow and bogging down.
They are basically the same computer (HP 8000) running on the same home
wireless network.

Oh, well. Time to clean it up and add some antispyware, I guess.

Eisboch