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Old 17-10-2004, 20:54   #1 (permalink)
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A friend of mine has some major virus related problems...any recommendations of free things to help out. He can't use explorer or start menu and gets porn everytime he opens IE. Perhaps reinstalling windows and a format would be best?
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Old 17-10-2004, 21:09   #2 (permalink)

 
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if he can't use explorer, then yeah, format and reinstall windows. he should download Spybot Antivirus and ZoneAlarm after though
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Who's got the problem Tav?
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plus tell him to use mozilla firefox its way better than IE has inbuilt popup blocker and isnt affected by spyware
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Old 17-10-2004, 21:22   #5 (permalink)
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A friend of mine has some major virus related problems...any recommendations of free things to help out. He can't use explorer or start menu and gets porn everytime he opens IE. Perhaps reinstalling windows and a format would be best?
ZoneAlarm is shit. Fair enough it can block most ad-ware, but it tends to get annoying if it keeps asking if an application is allowed to access the internet every 2 minutes
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gets porn everytime he opens IE
wait, this is a bad thing?
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Old 17-10-2004, 22:20   #7 (permalink)

 
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ZoneAlarm is shit. Fair enough it can block most ad-ware, but it tends to get annoying if it keeps asking if an application is allowed to access the internet every 2 minutes
there's a wonderful thing attached to it so that you can go "remember this setting" and guess what? It does!

incidentally - mole is right - ditch IE and go for firefox!
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Old 17-10-2004, 22:29   #8 (permalink)

 
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everytime i open up my 'notepad' program i get re-directed to a website that doesnt load up...then an icon appears on my desktop saying 'big savings' or something...and also my 'notepad' icon has changed to a yellow cross...

...anybody know what's up there? and how to fix it?
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Old 17-10-2004, 22:49   #9 (permalink)
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there's a wonderful thing attached to it so that you can go "remember this setting" and guess what? It does!

incidentally - mole is right - ditch IE and go for firefox!
I'm not a tit, and i configured that as soon as i installed it. There is always the message "do you want (then a number resembling an IP) to access the internet?", and the number is different each time

It is irritating
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unlucky for you mate. it's never given me that problem and i've been using it on both my old comp and this one...
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