What is a "parasite"

[Tony Gasperi]

For some reason the past three days the number of "pop-up"
I have been receiving has increased almost ten-fold DAILY.

I use McAfee Spam-Killer, but lately with all the noises
of it killing pop-ups my computer sounds like the Civil
War. Someone said I might have a "parasite" that is
tracking my internet usage and sending me all these
annoying pop-ups. Can any one help me out??
tony

[S.Heenan]

Tony Gasperi wrote:
> For some reason the past three days the number of "pop-up"
> I have been receiving has increased almost ten-fold DAILY.
>
> I use McAfee Spam-Killer, but lately with all the noises
> of it killing pop-ups my computer sounds like the Civil
> War. Someone said I might have a "parasite" that is
> tracking my internet usage and sending me all these
> annoying pop-ups. Can any one help me out??
> tony

Read about the Hosts file in Windows:
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm

Also, download Spybot Search and Destroy. It'll find just about any
parasite, hijacker, etc.

[Shenan T. Stanley]

Tony Gasperi <> wrote:
> For some reason the past three days the number of "pop-up"
> I have been receiving has increased almost ten-fold DAILY.
>
> I use McAfee Spam-Killer, but lately with all the noises
> of it killing pop-ups my computer sounds like the Civil
> War. Someone said I might have a "parasite" that is
> tracking my internet usage and sending me all these
> annoying pop-ups. Can any one help me out??
> tony

Advice on Popups and their elimination:

http://www.fracas.net/newsgroups/generaladvice.html#popups
or
http://tinyurl.com/el9s

You may want to look over the whole page.

--
Shenan Stanley
"Just trying to help"