Recent WinXP updates

[SBMongoos]

Is it me or am I seeing popups and some spam after these latest patches from MS. I was fine before. Seems a little peculiar. Not doing anything different than before.

Anyone?

 

[dawks]

If you're inferring that the patches you obtained for your Windows XP install from WindowsUpdate.com are now leading to popups and spam, you are quite wrong. Its more likely that a piece of spyware/adware has been snuck into you system recently.

Get spybot, run it, get adware, run it. Switch to Firefox or Opera. Runa firewall, and get a good, up-to-date antivirus program.

Microsoft is non sending you popups/spam.

 

[SBMongoos]

All these areas have been met except I'm using IE. I just ran hijack.exe and found nothing. I keep things pretty lean and mean. I realize it sounds odd to question the patches but I find it interesting timing. I've run Spybot and Lavasoft Adware SE Pro and the problem still persists.