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To: thecow who wrote (38009)	11/22/2003 12:54:02 PM
From: dpl	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 110653

I have a strange problem. I was searching my HD and in program\common files I found a "Crystal Decisions" folder.I did a google and it is some kind of business software.I never installed anything like this. There is no way to uninstall in windows so I erased the folders and files. However on rebooting the folders and files are back. Is it possible this is some sort of spyware? Anyone know anything about this? More important anyone know how to remove it? David

To: thecow who wrote (38009)	11/22/2003 1:13:27 PM
From: GROUND ZERO™	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110653

One problem... I just had the motherboard upgraded to the Windows XP Professional, it's super fast with the broadband... one of the features is that when I went to Google or Yahoo search for the very first time and entered something into the search box, a window popped up asking if I would want to have a pull down tab that displays everything I've searched for earlier, this way I won't have to type the same thing in each time, I clicked okay... well, now I have about 100 items in that pull down tab and I see no way to disengage it... it's part of the XP program and not the search site itself... any ideas on how to get rid of this annoying thing? Any advice is greatly appreciated, especially if it helps...<g> TIA GZ

To: thecow who wrote (38009)	11/22/2003 2:30:46 PM
From: rrufff	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 110653

Here's a guy who needs your advice <ggg> Man gets "spam rage" over penis ad By Adam Tanner SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Call it spam rage -- a Silicon Valley computer programmer has been arrested for threatening to torture and kill employees of the company he blames for bombarding his computer with Web ads promising to enlarge his penis. In one of the first prosecutions of its kind in the state that made "road rage" famous, Charles Booker, 44, was arrested on Thursday and released on $75,000 (45,000 pounds) bond for making repeated threats to staff of an unnamed Canadian company between May and July, the U.S. Attorney's office for Northern California said on Friday. Booker threatened to send a "package full of Anthrax spores" to the company, to "disable" an employee with a bullet and torture him with a power drill and ice pick; and to hunt down and castrate the employees unless they removed him from their e-mail list, prosecutors said. In a telephone interview with Reuters, Booker acknowledged that he had behaved badly but said his computer had been rendered almost unusable for about two months by a barrage of pop-up advertising and e-mail. "Here's what happened: I go to their Web site and start complaining to them, would you please, please, please stop bothering me," he said. "It just sort of escalated ... and I sort of lost my cool at that point." Booker, of Sunnyvale, California, now faces up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine, with a preliminary hearing scheduled for next month. He said he did not own any guns or have access to anthrax. Booker said the problem stemmed from a program he mistakenly downloaded from the Internet that brought a continuous stream of advertising to his computer. Booker identified the object of his rage as Albion Medical, which claims to produce the "Only Reliable, Medically Approved Penis Enhancement." The company's Web site does not provide any telephone numbers for contact. In other cases, Internet vigilantes have bombarded spammers with both unsolicited e-mail and regular mail and phone calls, launched attacks on spammers' computers and posted spammers' personal information on the Internet, according to reports. Separately, lawmakers in Washington said the U.S. House of Representatives could vote as early as Friday on a measure to outlaw most Internet spam. Lawmakers hope to pass a national anti-spam bill before a much tougher California state law goes into effect on January 1. uk.news.yahoo.com