Subj : Re: Windows question: how to remove automatic timed popup ads?
To   : comp.os.linux
From : Sybren Stuvel
Date : Mon Jul 12 2004 05:58 pm

Charles Fox enlightened us with:
> Yes I know this is a linux group but I reckon you guys are smarter
> than the windows groups :)

Smarter perhaps, but I doubt if we have more knowledge of Windows.

> Just wondered if anyone has seen this: every 5 mins or so I get an
> explorer ad window pop up out of nowhere.

Sounds like spyware to me.

> Is there some simple way to get rid of this?

Don't use Windows.

> Or at least a way to find out where the cause is? 

Call Microsoft.

> Sorry for the mispost, but hey, it's another illustration of how
> terrible windows world is getting these days.

We don't need such a demonstration, thank you.

Sybren
-- 
The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a
capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the
safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?

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