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Posted: 31st Mar 2004
Eeep - someone's been infected with Spyway methinks

Go to www.lavasoft.de and download Ad-aware - the free version
Run it and it should get rid of them. Some spyware stuff just comes from various websites, others come bundled in downloads with KaZaa (use KaZaa lite) for example

Burner of Toast
Spinner of poi
Slacker of enormous magnitude

Posted: 31st Mar 2004
Tis possibly Kazaa! (Stupid sister)

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Posted: 31st Mar 2004

Just to reitterate- these pop ups have nothing to do with the Home of Poi site. Home of Poi does not launch any popups.

Kazaa - it's pointless. Well, it has a point, but other programs have sharper ones. If you must have it, try Kazaa lite, which is SpyWare free.

Posted: 31st Mar 2004
Or even better SoulSeek

However, I'm not going to put a link in with all the new court cases coming through...

But if you find a link, this is important, it's NOT www.soulseek.org - This is a variation of the program with spyware and purposefully built security backdoors - avoid at all costs (Seriously)

Burner of Toast
Spinner of poi
Slacker of enormous magnitude

Posted: 31st Mar 2004
slsknet.org
Yep, it's a keep it quiet program. Never mentioned in the press so for now we can hope it has life.

Posted: 31st Mar 2004
go to mozilla.org
and download the best browser on the planet. mozilla firefox
fully good software
it kills all pop ups I havent seen one for months
and it has tab browsing, click the middle button on a link, and it opens in a background tab bliss
I use IE about 1 time a month

Posted: 31st Mar 2004
i have to use exploder cus clients view my work in exploder.
but i use google toolbar, it's well good for disrupting pop-ups.
my navel, sadly is not pop-up

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Posted: 31st Mar 2004
I second the emotion that Mr. Pop Up's computer probably has some adware/spyware on it. My last computer had so much spyware on it it was ridiuclous. I kept getting these huge pop-ups that would make you click on things to get rid of them, but they covered the whole page, so you couldn't even get to your task bar. I figured out how to get around that, but still, the pop ups were horrible. Now I'm behind a router and very rarely get pop-ups, and there's no spy-ware anymore either.

On the soulseek/filesharing topic, is that really the best one to go with? Does anyone have any others they like that have no adware/spyware built into them? Other than Kazaa lite of course.

What about bearshare? does that still exist? Does it have spyware?

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Posted: 2nd Apr 2004
No I do not want free organic penis enlargemnt
No I do not want software for £100 to make my computer run a trillion times faster
and No I do not want hot sexy MILF's in my area

down with pop-ups!!!

Posted: 2nd Apr 2004
Personally I have been tempted by the ads for bigger breasts
MILF? having no popups and no spam I feel I'm missing out somewhere.

Best p2p - as we said: Soulseek. No doubts

Posted: 2nd Apr 2004
MILF? American Pie! Don't you know???
Mother I'd Like to [put in an obvious word that begins with F]

Stacie's mom, has got it going on la la la la *Ears bleed*

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Posted: 2nd Apr 2004
cor blimey

RoOtZ

Posted: 6th Apr 2004
Does soulseek have an option for you to not share? Because i don't run my computer that often, and I don't run my filesharing program except during the actual time I'm trying to download.

"We can't stop here! This is bat country!"

"Welcome to the U-S-A,
We'll treat you right, unless you're black or gay, or Cherokeeeeee!!"
-Brian Griffin from "Family Guy" (the dog)

Posted: 13th Apr 2004
Teehee, cheers for help, turns out it wasn't just spyware! We had about 261??? Virus type objects, now we have about 5 and the computer can operate again!!! Though the comp had to go through a full week nursing process of being rebooted and reinstalled but it worked!
Now I have no pop-ups, no junk mail (spam) etc! WOOHOO!!!! *Touch wood*

*Does the happy dance*

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