Irritating 'Search' Pop Up on IE6

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<<<Tony H.>>> - 04 Feb 2004 13:17 GMT

I have a new laptop with XP which has one annoying problem. When I launch
Internet Explorer, it launches to the home page and then within a few
seconds I get a new screen up with the adds. http://www.searchxl.com/dir.php
this seems to take over my machine, I can't remove it unless I do
Ctrl-Alt-Del which is infuriating.

I'm not sure if this is normal or I've picked something up from the web. Any
ideas how to remove/disable this screen?

Tks
Regards

Tony H.
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tony@shoeselkridge.co.uk
Address spam-trapped, please remove shoes to reply

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Chris Russell - 04 Feb 2004 13:57 GMT

Download SpyBot Search and Destroy, Ad Aware(free version if available) and
CWShredder; then download latest updates and run. Also you can try
RegSeeker to clean your registry of invalid registrations. Hopefully this
will solve your problem.

Chris

> I have a new laptop with XP which has one annoying problem. When I launch
> Internet Explorer, it launches to the home page and then within a few
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> tony@shoeselkridge.co.uk
> Address spam-trapped, please remove shoes to reply

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Curran - 25 Feb 2004 23:42 GMT

If you haven't done so already, you should download both ad-aware and
spybot-search & destroy. Go through the update procedures for both programs
and run full system scans. Also, make sure you have an antivirus program
installed and updated, and also run a full scan with it. These problems can
be caused by viruses or spyware. Oh and try www.download.com for the 2
programs.

-curran

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Irritating 'Search' Pop Up on IE6