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missing the advertising

by 3151jeff Jun 4, 2005 9:28AM PDT

running adaware,spybot,secretmaker,microsoft antispyware,zone alarm,spyware blaster and mcafee. Also some time after I added tweaknow registry cleaner and nuker trial registry cleaner as well as webroot spysweeper. I don't know when the advertisments stopped showing (ie the one at the top of this page & sympatico msn home page) but it was nice at first, now it bothers me. I have tried restoring tweaknow,turning off spywareblaster, spybot and uninstalling nuker registry cleaner. Anyone have any suggestions

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You've got quite a collection of.....
by Michael Geist Jun 4, 2005 9:47AM PDT

pesticides. I might pare it down to an up to date AV, a spyware checker and a firewall. Too many pesticides can be toxic to an OS as well as the bugs.

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missing the.......
by Earthquake McGoon Jun 4, 2005 10:27AM PDT

Well, I guess you pays your money and you takes your choice! I'd be glad to get rid of the ads! I also agree with Michael Geist. You have far too many spyware programs. I use syeware blaster from majorgeeks.com
to keep them out, and ad-aware to clean up the occasional
slip-up. That and a couple of free A-V's such as AVG and
Bitware BitDefender or Panda and you're all set! Get the A-V's from infostar.com, Virus Info.

Earthquake McGoon

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about anti-virus and what I've done so far
by 3151jeff Jun 5, 2005 2:15AM PDT

I thought you could not run more than one anti-virus as they would conflict. Is that incorrect? I run McAfee only and it seems to do the job.
I got rid of every thing except Zone Alarm firewall / Adaware se personal / Microsoft antispyware.
Then I tried system Restore when the previous did not fix my problem and it locked up on me 3 times. So I am still with the boxes that say ''this page could not be displayed''.
So maybe I had better leave well enough alone.

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about anti-virus........
by Earthquake McGoon Jun 5, 2005 2:35AM PDT

Good! You're almost there. I know that things are a little complicated, but that PC is not a refrigerator. Be patient.

Check the settings on your ZA Firewall. At first, you will want both the "trusted" and "internet" zones set to "medium", until the firewall knows what programs you use the most. After a few days, reset the trusted zone to
"high". See if that helps.

Is there any way you could be rejecting "cookies"? A lot
of websites won't show unless you allow cookies. I don't remember all the details about accepting cookies, but I'm sure that some kind soul (maybe Mike) can give you a hand.

Good luck, and hang in there!

Earthquake McGoon 8-)

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