Dang Lycos

DiscoZombieDiscoZombie Join Date: 2003-08-05 Member: 18951Members
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<div class="IPBDescription">aka, time to help me w/ another virus</div> ok, so I had some kind of javascript virus recently, the ones that infiltrate your computer straight through IE without you even needing to agree to download anything (thanks, Microsoft -- I really should take the hint and start using Firefox, but I'm just so USED to IE)...

I ran my whole host of fixer-upper programs (McAfee, AVG, Spybot, AdAware) and cleaned everything I saw, which wasn't much because I'm pretty good about staying clean usually... then I ran em again and everything is clean, but there's one annoying vestige -- whenever I do a google search or some similar searches, a Lycos pop-up box appears with search results I didn't ask for... now, since it's not picked up by any of my virus or spyware detectors, I figure it must be some part of IE itself the virus tampered with... does this sound like anything anyone's familiar with? any suggestions (short of reformatting or reinstalling windows, which would be obvious overkills for something this minor)? thanks in advance <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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  • DaedalusDaedalus Join Date: 2003-04-02 Member: 15152Members
    A pop-up box sounds like adware...
    Just dump IE. Your computer will thank you for it <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->

    Seriously though, if you've updated Ad-Aware and your virus scanner definitions, I don't know what it could be.
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  • Leaderz0rzLeaderz0rz Join Date: 2002-11-09 Member: 7847Members
    you should use spybot search and destory and adaware together, they both get things the others don't
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  • CabooseCaboose title = name(self, handle) Join Date: 2003-02-15 Member: 13597Members, Constellation
    Yea, drop IE, or if you like big steaps, drop Windows <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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  • DiscoZombieDiscoZombie Join Date: 2003-08-05 Member: 18951Members
    you know the number 1 thing keeping me with IE? I like the fact that the spacebar scrolls down a page... it's ideal for things like these forums, I don't want to have to reach my left hand all the way over to the page down key just to scroll a page down...
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  • Hand_Me_The_Gun_And_Ask_Me_AgainHand_Me_The_Gun_And_Ask_Me_Again Join Date: 2002-02-07 Member: 178Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-DiscoZombie+Jun 28 2004, 03:33 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (DiscoZombie @ Jun 28 2004, 03:33 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> you know the number 1 thing keeping me with IE? I like the fact that the spacebar scrolls down a page... it's ideal for things like these forums, I don't want to have to reach my left hand all the way over to the page down key just to scroll a page down... <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    I've just checked in Firefox 0.9 (albeit the Mac OS X version), and the space-bar thing works fine.

    Go on, give in to the dark side. Especially with the <a href='http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3840101.stm' target='_blank'>various fun IE flaws around at the moment</a>... <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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  • Chaos_LlamaChaos_Llama Join Date: 2004-04-23 Member: 28124Members
    I use Mozilla and my virus scanner picks up java viruses and trojans. The one i see a lot of is: <a href='http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/trojan.byteverify.html' target='_blank'>Trojan ByteVerify</a>

    I use Norton Anti Virus 2004 Proffesional.
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  • jumpingjodajumpingjoda Join Date: 2003-12-14 Member: 24367Members, Constellation, Reinforced - Shadow
    Yep spacebar works in firefox 0.9.
    I used IE just ONCE... To download firefox <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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  • raz0rraz0r Join Date: 2003-07-24 Member: 18395Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-Chaos Llama+Jun 28 2004, 05:52 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Chaos Llama @ Jun 28 2004, 05:52 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> I use Mozilla and my virus scanner picks up java viruses and trojans. The one i see a lot of is: <a href='http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/trojan.byteverify.html' target='_blank'>Trojan ByteVerify</a>

    I use Norton Anti Virus 2004 Proffesional. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    i seem to be getting that same one quite often
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  • DiscoZombieDiscoZombie Join Date: 2003-08-05 Member: 18951Members
    edited June 2004
    oh the spacebar works now? awesome, I think I'm sold <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo--> I've got .8 and it doesn't work on that, so now I'll have to get ver 0.9 and confirm it and be merry :>

    thanx for the info!
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  • ANeMANeM Join Date: 2003-05-13 Member: 16267Members, Constellation
    <!--QuoteBegin-DiscoZombie+Jun 28 2004, 02:43 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (DiscoZombie @ Jun 28 2004, 02:43 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> oh the spacebar works now? awesome, I think I'm sold <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo--> I've got .8 and it doesn't work on that, so now I'll have to get ver 0.9 and confirm it and be merry :>

    thanx for the info! <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Odd, the spacebar scroll seems to work just fine for my 0.8.. <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif' /><!--endemo-->
    Oh well.
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  • BeastBeast Armonkyi Join Date: 2003-04-21 Member: 15731Members, Constellation
    Firefox isn't that different from IE - it even has better features... Tabbed browsing is excellent <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->.
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  • PulsePulse To create, to create and escape. Join Date: 2002-08-29 Member: 1248Members, Constellation
    WTH? Do you not have a mousewheel?
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  • POOP_AkiraPOOP_Akira Join Date: 2003-11-23 Member: 23468Members
    Try Avant browser if you want a more "complete" feeling instead of FireFox.
    Avants full screen ownzorz. <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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  • Dorian_GrayDorian_Gray Join Date: 2004-02-15 Member: 26581Members, Constellation
    <!--QuoteBegin-http://www.avantbrowser.com/+--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (http://www.avantbrowser.com/)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Full IE Compatibility: Avant Browser comes with all Internet Explorer functions, including Cookies, ActiveX Controls, Java Script, Real player and Macromedia Flash. IE bookmarks are automatically imported into Avant Browser.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    Unfortunately, that there is the problem. It uses the IE engine, which means its just as buggy and craptacular as ever. I just tested the spacebar thing on Firefox 0.9 WinXP, and it works. One tap scrolls one screen.
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  • DiscoZombieDiscoZombie Join Date: 2003-08-05 Member: 18951Members
    I must have something set weird because the space bar still doesn't page down... I think it has something to do with this feature where you can start typing something and it'll find what you're typing in the page without having to do a "find"... so when I hit space, I think it's looking for spaces in the page... and I can't figure out how to disable it...

    *goes off to tweak summore*
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  • jumpingjodajumpingjoda Join Date: 2003-12-14 Member: 24367Members, Constellation, Reinforced - Shadow
    Err... WTH... Works all fine here... Have you changed some options?
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  • CabooseCaboose title = name(self, handle) Join Date: 2003-02-15 Member: 13597Members, Constellation
    Meh, It works for me...
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  • DiscoZombieDiscoZombie Join Date: 2003-08-05 Member: 18951Members
    oh duh... I had 'move system caret with focus/selection changes' checked in advanced settings... I must have looked through the options 10 times before finally figuring it out... ok, thanks for the IE intervention guys, you can officially ignore this thread now =P
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