On Sun, 31 Aug 2003 18:34:01 +0930, in <alt.privacy.spyware>, "NiC"
<port_power@iprimus.com.au> wrote:
>
> Was there any need to be so rude???
>
[snip]

I have not yet begun to be rude, at least to you. If you are so
thin-skinned as to take offense to straight talk and plain language, then
Usenet is probably not for you -- especially not he <alt.*> (or
$DEITY-help-you, <free.*>) hierarchy.

> > > I installed a program today called TechfactsXP that checks and
> > > cleans the registry, among other things, is the same as the
> > > HijackThis program?
> > [snip]
> >
> > What makes you think it would be?
>
> I don't know, that's why I asked.
>
[snip]

It would make about as much sense to ask if it were "the same as" Microsoft
Word, or sed/awk, or chocolate cake with buttercream icing.

> No, I wasn't connected to the internet at the time.
>
[snip]

Then the "pop-up" MUST have been generated by a locally executing program.
Hence, typical "pop-ups stopppers" would be completely ineffective.

> No, I don't have a cable connection. I have a dialup connection.
>
[snip]

OK, I see now that your ISP apparently uses an internal proxy server for
Usenet posts, which explains the constant "NNTP-Posting-Host:" IP.

> At the time I wasn't running a firewall, but thanks to the helpful advice
> of people here I went and did just that.
>
> Turning off the Windows Messenger service was the first thing that I did.
>
[snip]

Both of which are completely irrelevant, based on your assertation above
that the pop-up occurred while you did NOT have a live Internet connection.

> > > If the TechfactsXP is
> > > the same as HijackThis, could I send in a screen capture or
> > > something similar from that?
> > >
> > [snip]
> >
> > Why do you keep trying to "get creative", when it is patently obvious
> > that you don't know what you're doing? You've been given some
> > half-decent advice by several folks here -- FOLLOW IT.
>
> I never once suggested that I knew what I was doing. If I did know then
> I wouldn't have posted my question here. I was given great advice which
> I followed to the letter and thankfully my problem appears to have been
> resolved.
>
[snip]

I'm not sure how trying to use a screen capture from an entirely different
program constitutes "followed to the letter", but whatever...

> Lucky for me I guess that you have jumped in on this late in the game
[snip]

That would (mostly) depend on whether or not you learned anything as a
result.

--

Jay T. Blocksom
--------------------------------
Appropriate Technology, Inc.
usenet01[at]appropriate-tech.net


"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-- Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759.

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