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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Called up and given a recorded message by a computer? If so, that is illeagal in and of itself in a lot of places. Some even have the company that did it fined for a particular amount, payable directly to the person called, on a per incident basis. You might want to see about finding a copy of your local laws in the library.

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Not to change directions but dang, this WinShow browser hijack is still around *after* repeated removals (manually unregistering its files and deleteing them, to using Ad Aware 6).
I don't know how it keeps coming back... I'm really pissed at 8ad.com and 00hq.com
People like that make me sick... especially since I *never* agreed to use their software. I wonder if my startup items were modified to get the latest crapware from them.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">money is usefull.

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Just the other day someone show up at my door. I look thru the stain glass door and did not recognize them and they were wearing regular clothing, so they were not Mormons either. I open the door to see what gives! And guess what! It was a salesperson...... AAGGGGGGG..….I hate door-to-door salesmen. No mater what I say, the dude would not SHUT UP!! And when he finally did shut up!… after five f---ing minutes... he ask me for a drink of water, so I told him stay there… and I got him a cup of water and told him to keep the f---ing cup, and then I closed the door.

Well… I did not say keep the f---ing cup... but I felt like saying it.

I hope this not the return of the door-to-door salesmen because of telemarketing. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif

[ November 06, 2003, 05:19: Message edited by: Cosmos ]

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Does your system auto back up at shut off? I know that on XP and even win2k you have to disable that function before killing a virus or it will come back.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">To bad we can get a port number and send it a virus. What a lovely day that would be when all of the Telemarketers computers crash because of the DONTCALLME Virus.

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yeah. ugh. stomach feel bad.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I think my machine once had something similar - it turns out it was an HTML virus (or something - I just got rid of it, I didn't look at it). Virus scanners didn't catch it. It seems whenever you open certain browsers, it runs html files in certain locations - check your root directory (plural if you use more than one,) your Windows (I'm assuming it's Windows) directory, Program files, and the directory your browser runs in. The thing buried itself on my computer, changed the permissions on for Internet Options so I couldn't mess with them directly, and set my homepage to some website or another. Every time I opened my browser, it ran (either from the page it set my homepage to or through the stored Version) and put everything back the way the virus wanted it. I fixed the permissions through Control Panel, deleted the HTML by hand, and set my homepage back from a bookmark I keep for that purpose. That bug hasn't been back since. However, yours might be something trickyer. What worked for me might not work for you.

Also, you may want to check your startup menu - most of the stuff in there is usually pretty worthless, so go ahead and get rid of it by renaming the directory (usually C:\WINDOWS\Start Menu\Programs\StartUp) to something else - ...\Programs\DisabledStartup, perhaps - to allow revcovery of anything you actually want to start up on startup (for example, I've got a remote control utility for the TV tuner installed into my machine; that, I do want).

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my stomach now feels somewhat better, but you don't want to hear of my recent activity.

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My favourite trick with telemarketers is to ask if they mind being put on hold. Then I put the phone next to my stereo and play loads of highly offensive punk music. (Snuff's 'arsehole' is a particular favourite)

You can check back 5 minutes later and they'll often still be there, but by 10 minutes they've usually hung up.