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<blockquote data-quote="Channel Hopper" data-source="post: 407190" data-attributes="member: 175144"><p>I have been getting the odd loan(shark) advert that then changes into a group of five or six of them after clicking the close sign. Setting up the firewall and Explorer to higher security hasn't made much of a difference, and running the AV / Spyware checks bring up just the usual cookies I am used to.</p><p></p><p>A search on Google has thrown up something called Smitfraud and a removing tool (which has been run), but the popups are now distinctly darker and of a highly illegal nature - if viewed.</p><p></p><p>Removed the hard drive and fitted this one to get going again (using a borrowed XP Professional disc - but I do not want to corrupt this one if I can help it by looking through the old drive to clean it.</p><p></p><p>Can data of this nature 'jump' across hard drives without a prompt ?</p><p></p><p>I have slaved the other to a drive running Win 98 on Fat 32 but it doesn't recognise the files in the older drive - I think its to do with the 40GB+ limits. To save going round in circles , does anyone have a tool that I can guarantee removal of whats in there, otherwise I may have to put the drive beyond use.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Channel Hopper, post: 407190, member: 175144"] I have been getting the odd loan(shark) advert that then changes into a group of five or six of them after clicking the close sign. Setting up the firewall and Explorer to higher security hasn't made much of a difference, and running the AV / Spyware checks bring up just the usual cookies I am used to. A search on Google has thrown up something called Smitfraud and a removing tool (which has been run), but the popups are now distinctly darker and of a highly illegal nature - if viewed. Removed the hard drive and fitted this one to get going again (using a borrowed XP Professional disc - but I do not want to corrupt this one if I can help it by looking through the old drive to clean it. Can data of this nature 'jump' across hard drives without a prompt ? I have slaved the other to a drive running Win 98 on Fat 32 but it doesn't recognise the files in the older drive - I think its to do with the 40GB+ limits. To save going round in circles , does anyone have a tool that I can guarantee removal of whats in there, otherwise I may have to put the drive beyond use. [/QUOTE]
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