Blank Popup

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Hi

Have you virus checked your system with the latest definitions for your AV
program?

Please try the following programs to check for any spyware that might be on
your system:

Ad-Aware - www.lavasoftusa.com
Spybot - http://www.safer-networking.org/
CWShredder -http://forum.aumha.org/downloads/cwshredder.zip

Try SpyWareBlaster to stop intrusions:

http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html

Also see the following links:

http://aumha.org/a/parasite.htm
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm
http://www.microsoft.com/security/articles/spyware.asp

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Will Denny
MVP - Windows Shell/User
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"russur" <rdrow@cox.net> wrote in message
news:EsF2d.46456$xu6.38506@okepread02...
>I have just recently started having a blank popup that will not go away.
>There is no text in it, only a square box with the red 'x' that doesn't get
>rid of it. I have to reboot XP to get rid of it.
> Most recently, the popup reappeared while I was reading an email. There
> seems to be no rhyme nor reason to why it appears.
> Has anyone encountered this little pest?