Weird crap happening with my puter

[crabcake]

I keep getting these "do you wanna continue running scripts on this age?" messages, and some words are underlined with a bolded green line. When I move my mouse over them, I see in the bottom preview screen thingy some "keyword search site" ...

has something taken over my puter and if so, how do I eradicate it like an islamic extremist freakazoid?

TIA.

 

[Kain99]

Originally posted by tatercake
"do you wanna continue running scripts on this age?"
TIA.

Is that the exact error message?

 

[mainman]

Page?

 

[crabcake]

Re: Re: Weird crap happening with my puter

Originally posted by Kain99
Is that the exact error message?

I meant 'page' ... bear with me; I haven't had my third cup of coffee yet.

 

[justhangn]

Originally posted by tatercake
Has something taken over my puter and if so, how do I eradicate it like an islamic extremist freakazoid?

TIA.

YEP, something has taken over your box.......call your tech support.

 

[crabcake]

Re: Re: Weird crap happening with my puter

Originally posted by justhangn
YEP, something has taken over your box.......call your tech support.

well dayum I have pop-ups galore coming up too. I thought they'd installed a pop-up blocker for me. :shrug:

 

[Pete]

Re: Re: Re: Weird crap happening with my puter

Originally posted by tatercake
well dayum I have pop-ups galore coming up too. I thought they'd installed a pop-up blocker for me. :shrug:

porn sites get you everytime.

 

[Kizzy]

Re: Re: Re: Re: Weird crap happening with my puter

Originally posted by Pete
porn sites get you everytime.

She doesn't look at porn.

 

[Danzig]

you been

 

[crabcake]

I just tinkered with it a bit, found some bogus lycos program had self-installed somehow; got rid of it, rebooted, but it's still acting up. Still asking for the scripts thing ... I ran McAfee as well. :shrug: Nothing came up as 'infected'.

I'm hesitant to call the IT peeps b/c the chic there is wierd. She is all fidgety and crap like she's in desperate need of a toke on the crack pipe when she comes in here.

 

[justhangn]

Originally posted by tatercake
I just tinkered with it a bit, found some bogus lycos program had self-installed somehow; got rid of it, rebooted, but it's still acting up. Still asking for the scripts thing ... I ran McAfee as well. :shrug: Nothing came up as 'infected'.

I'm hesitant to call the IT peeps b/c the chic there is wierd. She is all fidgety and crap like she's in desperate need of a toke on the crack pipe when she comes in here.

1. Call tech support, stop trying to "fix" it.

2. You're machine has been hijacked by one of MANY applications on the web........

 

[crabcake]

referencing that "green bold underline" thing ... when I right click it for 'properties', I get a site address of: http://search.targetwords.com/u.search?x=5977|1||||recipe|AA1VDw

btw it is only happening on somd. all kinds of strange words are underlined ... like "porn" "mp3" "computers" etc. WTF! :shrug:

 

[crabcake]

Originally posted by justhangn
1. Call tech support, stop trying to "fix" it.

2. You're machine has been hijacked by one of MANY applications on the web........

my other programs (word, excel, email) are all working fine though. :shrug:

 

[justhangn]

Originally posted by tatercake
my other programs (word, excel, email) are all working fine though. :shrug:

it's a "web propagated" program.....it lies in your temp files and uses your browser to work.......

Easy fix, stop surfing the web and get to work.......problem solved.

 

[crabcake]

this is some attempt ya'll concocted to keep me from posting, idn't it?

 

[mainman]

Adware/Spyware

 

[crabcake]

Originally posted by justhangn
it's a "web propagated" program.....it lies in your temp files and uses your browser to work.......

Easy fix, stop surfing the web and get to work.......problem solved.

I wonder how looks when it dries on green felt.

 

[crabcake]

Originally posted by mainman
Adware/Spyware

I don't know that I can download those ... they tightened up (supposedly) our network to keep peeps from d/l'ing stuff like IMers and things a while back (which is why I don't have it at work anymore ). In fact, I think they installed some sort of 'adware' thing a while back for me.

I have a meeting to go to, then I'll call the crack addict IT chic.

At least I 'rebooted' and ran virus scan already. That should get me some points.

 

[mainman]

Originally posted by tatercake
I don't know that I can download those ... they tightened up (supposedly) our network to keep peeps from d/l'ing stuff like IMers and things a while back (which is why I don't have it at work anymore ). In fact, I think they installed some sort of 'adware' thing a while back for me.

I have a meeting to go to, then I'll call the crack addict IT chic.

At least I 'rebooted' and ran virus scan already. That should get me some points.

If they already installed a spyware killer, maybe the defs. need to be updated and a scan run with that...

 

[crabcake]

Originally posted by mainman
If they already installed a spyware killer, maybe the defs. need to be updated and a scan run with that...

I'll check that; thx!