Okay, here's a hair puller (at least for me):  my department head uses a
Dell 550 w/ win98SE.  For the past few months he's been experiencing all
sorts of ads popping up on his system if he has his AOL client or IE open.
I can see nothing out of the ordinary loading at startup; Active desktop is
disabled; no screensavers running that can or will call up these ads. He
states that he has not installed anything in quite some time and I can't see
any un-id'ed apps installed.   I can't see any running (that is unknown)
tasks that's causing this.  Of the 2 ads I did get the properties of, one
referenced www.gohip,com and the other another site something like
"popups.somesitename.com".  Personally, I thought it might be related to
AOL, but no other users with same s'ware version are experiencing this.
I've already suggested backing up his data and reformatting system, but time
seems to be an issue.  Any thoughts as to what's causing this?


Ian Carmichael
NYC

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