# Some new spyware?

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-new-spyware/224276
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [January 13, 2004, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-new-spyware/224276 "2004-01-13T18:14:00Z")
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### Author: ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2004, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-new-spyware/224276/1 "2004-01-13T18:14:00Z")

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Every once in a while, Internet Explorer opens up a new window on its own and displays a Web page. About half the time it’s this one – [http://www.pharmacymedrx.com/](http://www.pharmacymedrx.com/). It doesn’t seem like a regular popup ad, because it doesn’t seem to happen only when I access a new Web page. I’ve run Adaware a couple of times, but it’s not finding anything. Any ideas?

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### Author: ![tFr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6bbea6/32.png) [@tFr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tFr)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2004, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-new-spyware/224276/2 "2004-01-13T18:16:45Z")

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Steps:  
0. Kill all cookies on your computer (this is done by going to Tools-\>Internet Options)

1. Update ad-aware and run again.
2. Download and run Spybot Search and Destroy.
3. Attack the popup site with a virus. 🙂