"Steve" <srhaymesslaysspam@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> To All:
>
> Yesterday evening when starting my PC, I got a porn-ad popup on startup
> (small gray box with a "message is waiting for you" line). Running
> Ad-aware, Spybot and Norton AV all came up negative. A quick search of
the
> Registry for selected character strings in the pop-up also came up
negative.
> A quick (but not complete as I did not cross check everything) check of
> MSCONFIG - Startup did not show anything unusual.
>
> Should I assume that whatever caused this is still lurking somewhere on
my
> PC? If so, how should I proceed to find it?
>

Check out what is the default background page pic and also check out check
out if anything is in your STARTUP off the START menu and PROGRAMS.