TexasGal
Recycles dryer sheets
- Joined
- Jul 23, 2007
- Messages
- 229
Every morning as my computer is starting up, it automatically goes to a website. For a couple of days it was eBay and this morning it was Scottrade. This occurs during the start up cycle. I usually just turn on my computer while I am getting coffee and then sit down for the back half of the start up. That's when these websites pop up (not pop-up ads but the actual websites). I have not done anything to initiate it, and in fact I have not even opened internet explorer yet because my PC is still in the process of start up.
I spent considerable time lately on threads discussing eBay, PayPal and things related to Scottrade so I wonder if this has anything to do with this forum? CHINACO, I think you were asking about something related to this a few days ago. Don't remember if your issue was spam or pop-up ads or what, but you were wondering if it was related to this forum and google analytics.
I have McAfee's full virus/spyware/adware protection running all of the time as well as AVG's anti-spyware which I run daily. I have also been running AVG's anti-rootkit, and I am using an IE7 browser.
Any ideas why this is happening? Very strange.
I spent considerable time lately on threads discussing eBay, PayPal and things related to Scottrade so I wonder if this has anything to do with this forum? CHINACO, I think you were asking about something related to this a few days ago. Don't remember if your issue was spam or pop-up ads or what, but you were wondering if it was related to this forum and google analytics.
I have McAfee's full virus/spyware/adware protection running all of the time as well as AVG's anti-spyware which I run daily. I have also been running AVG's anti-rootkit, and I am using an IE7 browser.
Any ideas why this is happening? Very strange.