Pop ups and "Parasites"

Hello

I have recently had messages stating that there is a
Parasite on my system and that "this company" (I cant
remember the name of this) can remove it for X amount of
Dollars, I havent heard of this company before so am a
little wary.

Since this however, I have noticed that I have about
treble the amount of Pop-ups I used to and every time I
open a new web page another internet explorer window open
and says on the task bar ~Close then disappears. This
has obviouslly effected the speed of my connection. I
have Norton Virus checker and reguarlly update virus
definitions and do full system scans I have even tried
deleting all off line temp files and cookies and looked
for "strange" new files or directory created in the last
month to no avail??

Can any one help or point me in the right direction?

Any help appreciated.

Regards

George

Jupiter
Thu May 20 13:37:40 CDT 2004

George;
Follow #1, #5 & #6:
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/slowcom.htm

Also you need a firewall immediately if not already.
See this link for ways to help prevent this in the future:
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/security.htm

--
Jupiter Jones [MVP]
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/


"George" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:fcf001c43e96$d5ce4c60$a301280a@phx.gbl...
> Hello
>
> I have recently had messages stating that there is a
> Parasite on my system and that "this company" (I cant
> remember the name of this) can remove it for X amount of
> Dollars, I havent heard of this company before so am a
> little wary.
>
> Since this however, I have noticed that I have about
> treble the amount of Pop-ups I used to and every time I
> open a new web page another internet explorer window open
> and says on the task bar ~Close then disappears. This
> has obviouslly effected the speed of my connection. I
> have Norton Virus checker and reguarlly update virus
> definitions and do full system scans I have even tried
> deleting all off line temp files and cookies and looked
> for "strange" new files or directory created in the last
> month to no avail??
>
> Can any one help or point me in the right direction?
>
> Any help appreciated.
>
> Regards
>
> George