OT: Microsoft is really annoying!

[Michael Kann]

The free program "Adaware" from lavasoft.com might help. I've used it to clean out malware.


--- On Wed, 4/14/10, Wilhelm Sanke <sanke at hrz.uni-kassel.de> wrote:

> From: Wilhelm Sanke <sanke at hrz.uni-kassel.de>
> Subject: Re: OT: Microsoft is really annoying!
> To: "RunRev Ltd" <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
> Date: Wednesday, April 14, 2010, 11:09 AM
> I had just written:
> 
> > Since this morning - after 2 automatic updates on my
> WindowsXP PC, which took place when I shut my computer down
> after the first session - I am constantly being pestered by
> the Microsoft Internet Explorer popping up when I connect to
> the net. When I close the Explorer with the dialog "Internet
> Explorer is your default web browser? Yes, No" (or similar)
> with the "no" button, it closes, but reappears after a
> while.
> > 
> > This is a real nuisance!
> > 
> > Anybody else has experienced this, too? 
> 
> 
> In the meantime during a half hour this happened 4 times.
> 
> Last time the website
> 
> http://www.planet49.com/cgi-bin/wingame.pl?partner_pk=607&wingame_pk=74&sub_id=
> 
> came up with the Internet Explorer, featuring iMac, iPhone,
> and iPad, and telling me to choose my gift - and to solve a
> problem before and submit my data.
> 
> and 5 minutes later while I am writing this:
> 
> http://www.freelotto.com/register.asp?skin=Rainbow&noepu=1&partner=1060965&affiliateid=
> 
> congratulating me to have won 2,087.56 $.
> 
> Happily my - apparently my somewhat obsolete and slow-
> virus-detecting program stepped in at that point and I
> deleted the trojan. Hope this is the end of the story.
> 
> Sorry to have bothered  you with this crap.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Wilhelm Sanke
> 
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