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Thanks Kayak I didn't know that.

Spaceman & Kayak - Thanks very much - it is viral and contains the W32/Netsky-P virus. Guess what, I've been sent it again twice this lunchtime, both from domain names I traced and mailed the webmaster at both of them, which appear to be respectable companies. More when I get a reply (if I do).

CS, the senders domain may well be completly innocent and their addresses sould have been used without their knowledge. Personally I dont think its worth emailing them as it adds to the virus problem. However if it seems that their servers have been used but the addresses come from elsewhere I guess thats another matter as it shows a fainling in their security.

Does anybody know how to block pop ups with Windows XP?

Thanks.

Mr Euro -Have you installed this from Microsoft

http://toolbar.msn.com/

Try again

http://toolbar.msn.com/

Mr Euro, I dont use XP, I dont think it has anything built in at the moment but I read somewhere that it will have in SP2. I use the Google toolbar popup blocker which gets a lot of them.

EDIT just seen prodmans note, the MSN toolbar is very similar to the google one just points at a different search engine.

Mr Euro agree with Spaceman - since enabling Google about 2 weeks ago it has stopped over 1000 popups.

Thanks will try. I am on a different machine and am receiving a pop up every few seconds.

Also there is a stupid sex chat programme that keeps coming up everytime I reboot. I'll tackle that when my hangovers gone!

Mr Euro, have you got Adaware and or Spybot Search and Destroy? You have probably got a hijack and you need more than a poup blocker.

No I don't Spaceman. I have installed the msn blocker but they still ocme up!

Should I get what you mention? Don't suppose you have a link?

Thanks.

Mr Euro (learning how to increase my penis size and what animal sex is all about!!!)

Mr Euro,
Adaware from here:- http://www.lavasoftusa.com/

You nee the free version called just Adaware.

Spybot from here :- http://www.safer-networking.org/

If you are using dial up I suggest that you check what number is being dialed, it is possible that your dialer has been hijacked as well and it could be dialing a very expensive ISP.

I suggest you switch of the popup blocker for now and resolve this problem. I dont want to alarm you but I think you have a serious hijack problem with your PC at the moment.

Not a problem as such but I noticed axdpc asked this same question on the trader's thread and I want to do the same.

I have a cassette of my daughter singing (not very good but she was just 3 at the time!!) and I want to get it transferred into my computer somehow so I can then put it onto a CD. Any ideas? TIA

Spaceman - Installed MSN blocker, didn't work. Tried Spybot it found 150 problems but still doesn't stop the pop up's or this dam adult chat thingy.

Will try Ad-aware now, fingers crossed.

Mr Euro - I strongly recommend the Google blocker - according to its stats its stopped 83 popups today so far.

Mr Euro, as I mentioned above your problem is more significant, Adaware probably wont solve it completely either. Please post more details so I can work out what the hijack is, if you are dial up have you checked what dial up number is being called? Untill you have solved the problme I recomment that the popup blockers be dissabled. You machine is probably hijacked and you need to know what its doing.

Skinny, these are not your normal pop ups but grey messages. I'm not sure whats going to stop this.

Spaceman, thanks. It's calling AOL.

The pop ups are in grey boxes (10/30 per minute) and the adult sex programme re-installs itself every re-boot. Perhaps a firewall programme will help?

This isn't my normal machine but one from a friend.

Mr E, the grey boxes are a separate problem.

Start/Run, type services.msc, OK, scroll down to Messenger, click on it, press Stop button and then set Startup type to Disabled and OK.