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102410 2002-11-29 09:32:00 I am having a problem with a reoccuring popup. I am running a popup blocker program, which is stopping all but this one annoying popup from side-search.com, which is asking me to d/l their search toolbar. Its driving me nuts by appearing every few minutes. I have scanned my puter with three antivirus programs, (one puter based, two web based), and i scan clean on all three. I have tried emptying my temp folders and restarting to no avail, Is there a tool in IE6 that i may use to block traffic from this source ? Or has anyone got any other ideas ???
please help !!!! at the rate i'm cussing at this popup my budgies are going to learn some nasty swear words :(
katt
katt (2059)
102411 2002-11-29 09:39:00 what site does the popup come from? (no not side-search.com) what browser do u use?

also it would pay to check for spyware. try adaware.
tweak'e (174)
102412 2002-11-29 09:42:00 I use popup killer myself have used about about 5 other things in the past but still find this simple prog the best as you can program it to detect and remove popups with very little resources used happy to send you it plus a few other utils if you want tennisplayer43 at hotmaildotcom kiwibeat (304)
102413 2002-11-29 09:46:00 > what site does the popup come from? (no not
> side-search.com) what browser do u use?
>
> also it would pay to check for spyware. try adaware.


I am already running adaware and have removed all spyware .. but problem still exists :(
katt (2059)
102414 2002-11-29 09:48:00 further to above .. the pop up appears to be coming from side search and is asking me to agree to d/l & installing their tool bar. My browser is IE6 katt (2059)
102415 2002-11-29 09:59:00 this may seem like a silly idea but why not just stop going to side search?

most popups will be called from another site. proberly the one u went to just before side search poped up.

what sort of popup? browser window or a download/install window?
tweak'e (174)
102416 2002-11-29 10:01:00 You may have accidently downloaded their software.
Go Here (side-search.com) it gives info on how to uninstall
Jim B (153)
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