Thanks Hugh it worked. I did as you said and run it in safe mode.
FYI - I was told by the folks in tech services at work that I should run the
uninstaller for each user I have. I have two set up in XP Home so had to
run it twice. Ever since running it I haven't had any problems.
Dave Schroeder
----- Original Message -----
From: "Hugh Vandervoort" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, April 09, 2006 1:28 AM
Subject: Re: [PCSOFT] Pop-ups by OuterInfo
> There is an uninstaller here:
> http://www.outerinfo.com/ See bottom of menu on left.
> It's my understanding this needs to be run in Safe Mode.
>
>
> Dave Schroeder wrote:
>> Hello everyone, I sent this email yesterday but haven't seen it go to
>> the moderator so I'm sending it again. I recently started receiving
>> pop-ups that on the title bar says '....Advertisement by OuterInfo'.
>> I am using POW as a pop-up blocker. When you open POW you usually
>> get a listing of all windows currently open in IE. However any
>> active window from OuterInfo never show up. Does anyone know how I
>> can block this pop-up or get rid of what is causing these to come up?
>> I'm running XP home with SP2 and all updates. I also run AVG AV,
>> AdAware, Spybot, and A-squared. I recently did a repair to my system
>> after it started to hang every now and then when I rebooted. After
>> doing the repair I updated all the above software and ran them but I
>> still can't resolve the problem that OuterInfo is causing. Any help
>> on resolving this would certainly be appreciated. TIA Dave Schroeder
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