09-09-2003, 02:49 AM
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Sage
Join Date: Nov 2006
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IE and Second Thoughts?
My computer was displaying the "new updates ready to install" since before the blaster worm became well known. I was worried about letting the updates install, but everyone I talked to said to install them. I just installed the updates last night. I didn't get the blaster worm, but when the install said it was complete, I didn't get the usual message saying that I would have to restart my computer. I also noticed that there was a new shortcut, on my desktop, for "second thought". I looked in (add/remove programs), but there was nothing in there. I deleted the folder in program files where the shortcut was tied to, but since then I have had a bunch of pop up windows coming up. I restarted my computer, and went to bed last night. When I woke up, there were 62 IE windows open with a bunch of pop ups.
Anybody else have a problem like this or know what I can do to fix it?
I do have the firewall enabled within XP.
A lot of the pop ups appear as searches for one thing or another, but I haven't generated any searches of the sort.
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