What in the world...

sickofsoyo · Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2005 6:17 pm Post subject: What in the world...

I was browsing newegg and decided to look at the computer cooling section. When I clicked the link, it took a real long time and still didn't load, the WHAM! I had over a 100 internet explorer windows opened to my homepage, YAHOO! They just kept coming and coming until I went into Task manager, and they were still loading in processes. Is this an adware program running. I didn't get the chance to look for anything in the processes. It seems ok now, but I am not sure if it is an adware problem. I have adaware, microsoft, norton corporate 9.0 all running and all updated and couldn't find anything.
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smith.p.sean · Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2005 1:10 am Post subject:

download spybot search and destroy, version 1.4, update it and run it. See if it comes up with anything. Other than that, as long as it doesnt happen again, i would say no worries. If it does then we should start looking into it. Could just be an.... IE problem... (i couldnt help but smile)

Krimsal · Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2005 10:50 am Post subject:

sounds like a trojan virus.

fussnfeathers · Lord of the Tweak Joined: 14 Dec 2004 Posts: 2763

You know, I had something very similar happen the other day, but it was an error message from my ID3 tag editor...........opened about 100 error dialogs. Never did figure out what caused it.
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