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| 156840 | 2003-07-02 04:23:00 | Win XP Home. A small bell-shaped icon appeared today on my taskbar. Putting the cursor on it shows the message "Especially for you...". I have run up-to-date versions of AdAware, SpyBot S&D and Norton full-scan but it still appears although no virus, worm, trojan etc were found. The indications are that it contains some sort of message!!! Any ideas as to what it is & how to remove it please?? | Garibaldi (3838) | ||
| 156841 | 2003-07-02 05:07:00 | Rigt click the mouse on it and see if it comes up with a menu. Usually the bell is used as a reminder for such things as MS money or works reminder. Someone having a birthday soon? If it was on my PC , I would have done what you already have done, double check AV is up-to-date, then curiosity would have been too much and I would double click to see. Oh and make sure I'm disconnected from the net. | Pheonix (280) | ||
| 156842 | 2003-07-02 07:48:00 | Thank you Phoenix. Yes, I have double checked that AV is up to date. Right clicking the ding-dong brings up a menu to either "open the message" or "leave it alone" - guess which one I opted for!! I am not using the reminder function for birthdays etc but next time the bell appears I will open the message - boy-oh-boy it better be good news. Thanks again. | Garibaldi (3838) | ||
| 156843 | 2003-07-02 08:25:00 | if its in ur system tray then u should be able to see wot its program name is by using Windows Task Manager, if ur using XP. If u r on XP then hold down ALT-CTRL-DEL at the same time to open the taskmanger and see wot processes are running by clicking on the "Processe" tab. If u feel that u have found someting suspicious then type the name of the process in the search function in windows .eg. if u found a file named dodgy32.exe then u would search for "dodgy32.exe" on ur C:drive or other drives u might have. cheers, v.K |
vk_dre (195) | ||
| 156844 | 2003-07-02 09:39:00 | Thank you VK-dre. Had a look as you suggested but nothing suspicious at all. The bell icon has not appeared in past 1-1/2 hours so will wait for it then have another look at running processes. I don't know wot triggers it to appear, not like genie in bottle. Thanks agen, have a nice evening. | Garibaldi (3838) | ||
| 156845 | 2003-07-02 10:00:00 | Apologies all round. The bloody bell was a notification from Incredimail offering me discounts on their products 'cos I've been using I'mail for a year!!! Well, I've just blasted brown stuff out of them and uninstalled I'mail. They could have just sent me an e-mail which wouldn't have caused me to do a double-flip. My sincere thanks to respondents and to all who bothered to read my thread and my apologies for wasting your time. Am I embarassed - or what!!! | Garibaldi (3838) | ||
| 156846 | 2003-07-02 10:13:00 | On the contraire, you did the right thing by not automatically clicking on a suspicious new addition to the systray without checking it out first like you did. Nothing to be embarassed about. :) - you were just showing good common sense. |
Jen C (20) | ||
| 156847 | 2003-07-02 11:58:00 | > Apologies all round. The bloody bell was a > notification from Incredimail offering me discounts > on their products 'cos I've been using I'mail for a > year!!! Well, I've just blasted brown stuff out of > them and uninstalled I'mail. They could have just > sent me an e-mail which wouldn't have caused me to do > a double-flip. My sincere thanks to respondents and > to all who bothered to read my thread and my > apologies for wasting your time. Am I embarassed - or > what!!! no harm done, anyone would do wot u had done if a dodgy looking bell popped out of nowhere notifying them about something. I wonder why companies create reminders/adds like that? They are such a pain in the backside for the people who receive them. cheers, v.K |
vk_dre (195) | ||
| 156848 | 2003-07-02 22:22:00 | These are my last words on the subject - many many many thanks! | Garibaldi (3838) | ||
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