Sometimes it downloads automatically. It really does take over your browser
and installs things in the registry.
The free program Spybot Search and Destroy is the only program I have found
that completely eradicates the pest.
Linda
At 12:29 AM 2/1/2003 -0800, Sybil Finemel wrote:
>Do not download Xupiter!=20
>It's not a virus, but it's just as insidious and annoying, and it's =
>extremely difficult to get rid of. "It's a browser toolbar that some =
>swear is doing 'drive-by downloads' - installing itself without users' =
>permission - then taking over their systems and making it impossible to =
>uninstall," Wired News reports
>
>
>http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,57467,00.html OR=20
>
>The Tiny URL:
>
>http://tinyurl.com/5423
>
>
>Sybil Finemel
>Library Director MLS.CIO.
>Los Angeles CA
>Contributor, lii.org, Librarians' Index to the Internet
> http://lii.org/
>KidsConnect Volunteer
>Virtual Reference Desk Volunteer
>sfinemel@attbi.com
>'No entertainment is so cheap as reading;nor any pleasure so lasting'
>-Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
>
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