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johnfowles · 08-11-2004, 10:33 AM

quote:Originally posted by Auburn Annie:
We've also used Spybot Search & Destroy, basic version free online, and Ad-Aware which alos offers a free version. ]

I had simlar problems in fact a couple of weeks ago I got so exasperated with stupid pop-ups and home page hijacking
(a very annoying outfit called outhost kept insisting I would be more interested in searching for casinos rather than see my desired Google News page)
so I tried to carry out a full system recovery but that introduced its own problem as my laptop's built-in CD-ROM Drive
proved unwilling to read more than 9% of the recovery CD which was enough to completely cock-up a huge pile of files rendering W98 useless damn and blast it!!
anyone know how to set up booting from an external USB drive???
I eventually succeeded in reloading Windows98 from the hard drive cabinet files. within few days back on-line the pop-ups
again became unbearable so I used both Ad-Aware and SpybotSD to initial good effect.Until yet another asinine site (680180.net)found me. A modicum of Googling led to a recommendation to use an extremely small freeware program(me) called
Hijack This
and although it warns you that it is apparently easy to delete too many of its suspicious results I deleted a batch called BTO I think they were and 680180 has given up thank heavens.
The friggin' idiots/drug users who do this are almost as bad as the virus writers in my book. But that is another topic!!

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08-11-2004, 10:33 AM	#11
johnfowles Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: New Jersey U.S.A. ex UK and Canada Posts: 4,846	quote:Originally posted by Auburn Annie: We've also used Spybot Search & Destroy, basic version free online, and Ad-Aware which alos offers a free version. ] I had simlar problems in fact a couple of weeks ago I got so exasperated with stupid pop-ups and home page hijacking (a very annoying outfit called outhost kept insisting I would be more interested in searching for casinos rather than see my desired Google News page) so I tried to carry out a full system recovery but that introduced its own problem as my laptop's built-in CD-ROM Drive proved unwilling to read more than 9% of the recovery CD which was enough to completely cock-up a huge pile of files rendering W98 useless damn and blast it!! anyone know how to set up booting from an external USB drive??? I eventually succeeded in reloading Windows98 from the hard drive cabinet files. within few days back on-line the pop-ups again became unbearable so I used both Ad-Aware and SpybotSD to initial good effect.Until yet another asinine site (680180.net)found me. A modicum of Googling led to a recommendation to use an extremely small freeware program(me) called Hijack This and although it warns you that it is apparently easy to delete too many of its suspicious results I deleted a batch called BTO I think they were and 680180 has given up thank heavens. The friggin' idiots/drug users who do this are almost as bad as the virus writers in my book. But that is another topic!! ------------------ My Gordon Lightfoot webring starts at http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/lightfoot [This message has been edited by johnfowles (edited August 11, 2004).]