Yes, gohip is a program that one has to download. About two years ago it
caught me and was all the pain you are going through. I can't remember
details of getting rid of it but I remember going into Find and typing
gohip. I then deleted all that was there but I think there is more to it.
Fred Langa had a series on it and I would bet it is recoverable from his
archives. It will cost $10.00 for a year of his html version which is
[log in to unmask] I think the free version is
[log in to unmask] He publishes a news letters which are frequently very
helpful with computer problems. If you can't find his free version email me
and I know I can find it. Jim Dicomes   [log in to unmask]
----- Original Message -----
From: Ian Carmichael <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 1:02 PM
Subject: [PCSOFT] Desktop spammed


> 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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