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Termyn8or -> RE: pop ups- posing as "error msges" (2/21/2007 6:46:22 PM)
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The thing about a popup is that they can remove not only the menus, but the Windows control bar. One poster said to close them from the taskbar, and that is absolutely correct.
To know if you have to do that, roll the mouse pointer over the X at the right edge. You should get the little yellow windows popup that says close, now go to the body of the page, if it still says close that's the time you need to close from the taskbar.
Sometimes it is even almost better to use Ctrl+Alt+Del if using ME or 98. Then you are sure, but if you don't do it fast your internet connection may time out. Select it and end task.
Also be very aware of those little ones that disappear right away. check the taskbar. Good idea to scan for virii and spyware after you get one of those.
Also they can disable the right click, but usually you can get to View>Source in the menus. Save that as a text file. Best to open it is Word, where you can search, the text is enormous usually. Don't save it as a DOC file, make it TXT. That way Word will not parse it.
Search for http and then ftp. When the string matches, copy and paste the URL into notepad or something. Save all of them. Then you can look for cookies, or alot of things. You can also look for EXE files in your temp directories. (see, I am DOS too, I didn't call them folders).
You will have to set Windosexplorer to show all details, and go by dates as well. You CAN find it.
Of course others will just get out the Linix disk, one day I think I will. But not today.
T
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