At 09:26 AM 5/8/02 -0700, you wrote:
>Um, this sounds just like LOP... what happens is that you may have clicked
>on a button saying yes, without scrolling down the page to a hidden
>paragraph where you agree to host this infestation of adware. You may have
>thought you were agreeing to be transferred to another page...but...AHA...
>
>Not that this has EVER happened to me, requiring hours of careful excision.
>Uh-uh. Noppe, no way.

Try control panel programs uninstall and ad-aware from Lavasoft before
getting into the registry. http://www.lavasoft.nu/

It doesn't get everything. Download managers seem to be prime carriers of
this kind of junk- practically virii in themselves. Avoid most of
them- fastdownload is one- it installs an executable "openme.exe" and adds a
line to the shell command in your .ini file.  8-(
I just cleaned a colleagues computer of hundreds of bits of this stuff,
took several hours of work.

Best regards,

Spehro Pefhany --"it's the network..."            "The Journey is the reward"
speff@interlog.com             Info for manufacturers: http://www.trexon.com
Embedded software/hardware/analog  Info for designers:  http://www.speff.com
9/11 United we Stand

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