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Post December 15th, 2003, 10:13 pm

Ok, This will happen every few hours for no reason. Ill just be sitting there and then my computer will start playing an advertisement. Yesterday it was for some movie and today it was for some resume website. I've seen the commercials on tv before. But when they play nothing pops up and all i can hear is the sound. I can't actually see the commercial, just hear it. I am running Windows XP. Anybody know whats going on?
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Post December 15th, 2003, 10:13 pm

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Post December 16th, 2003, 4:24 am

Do you also have AOL Instant Messenger? Heh, recently they've been playing movie trailers on the buddy list window and it took me a bit to figure out where the sound was coming from. :roll: Check there next time that you hear it just in case.
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Post December 16th, 2003, 5:10 am

Ahhh that must be it. How do I disable it?
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Post December 16th, 2003, 8:38 am

you can't and I hate it. AOL blows....too bad I like IM so much :roll:
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Post December 16th, 2003, 9:13 am

if you've ever heard of trillian thats a good alernative
i'd only suggest it if you have more than one account type. (hotmail, aim,yahoo, etc)
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Post December 16th, 2003, 9:28 am

Ok so today I heard one of the ads playing. So i tried exiting aim and it gave me bsod. But it was a different bsod it was talking about how my computer had to shut down within 30 seconds to prevent damage from happening. :oops:
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Post December 16th, 2003, 12:18 pm

do you have the blaster patch(if you have xp, NT, or 2000

go to in the task manager and look for msblaster

if its there u need to get the patch and supposivly end its process 8)

you never know, it could be da blaster :gun4:
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Post December 16th, 2003, 3:32 pm

I have XP.
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Post December 17th, 2003, 3:20 pm

here's what I just did today --

    - I uninstalled AIM v5
    - I went to http://www.oldversion.com and downloaded v4.8 (no ads)
    - installed it (and was instantly reminded how nice and clean it used to be)
    - then I went to http://www.big-o-software.com/products/ ... wnload.php and installed AIM+


I am so much happier now...and no more of those crappy ads you talked
about!

here's AIM with AIM+ --
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here's AIM without AIM+ --
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Best of all, it's FREE!
You can do so much more with this addon. More info here --
http://www.big-o-software.com/products/aimplus/
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Post December 18th, 2003, 10:01 am

Hmm it seems i keep getting this error more and more when trying to close it while ads are playing and it seems that every time i get this error. When i boot up. My computer is slower... :? kinda worried
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Post December 18th, 2003, 10:21 am

why don't you just do what I did? and in the meantime, run Spybot.
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Post December 18th, 2003, 11:49 am

Yeah I ran spybot but it still happens.
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Post December 29th, 2003, 8:48 pm

I have dead aim and like 5.2 version of aim. so that would not be the problem becuase dead aim gets rid of the ads from aim. UNFLUX aim+ was orignally found to have spyware did they fix that?
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Post December 29th, 2003, 10:22 pm

i have no problems with aim+

something I should be looking for in particular?
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Post December 29th, 2003, 11:02 pm

AIM+ is the bomb, i used it for a long time. but i like to have the newer versions of aim cuz they have some cool feature i like to use, like adding icq #'s to your buddy list for example and being able to text message any mobile phone from aim etc etc.. i miss the conversation logs in aim+ though and the clone feature..
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