Ian Carmichael wrote:
>
> 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

You might have a look here...http://www.gohip.com/remove_browser_enhancement.html.
Don't know if this will help or not, but GoHip seems to cause problems. Or, you can
disable JavaScript in IE. Don't ask me how to do that, I use Netscape.


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