Is this website for real?

Life Technology
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Is this website for real? A message popped up on my screen telling me to go here, but I’m suspicious.
http://www.winupdate.net/

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Obviously not.

[quote=“whois”]Registrant:
Eric Cohen (WINUPDATE-NET-DOM)
1911 22nd St
1911 22nd St
San Francisco, US 94107
US
+1 40881769531
+1 40881769531
eric_cohen2001@yahoo.com

Domain Name: WINUPDATE.NET

Administrative Contact:
Cohen Eric eric_cohen2001@yahoo.com
1911 22nd St
1911 22nd St
San Francisco, US 94107
US
+1 40881769531
Fax- +1 40881769531

Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
Eric Cohen eric_cohen2001@yahoo.com
1911 22nd St
1911 22nd St
San Francisco, US 94107
US
+1 40881769531
Fax- +1 40881769531

Record last updated on 21-Apr-2004.
Record expires on 21-Apr-2005.
Record created on 21-Apr-2004.
[/quote]Doesn’t look like an offical microsoft site… Neither did the name in the first place

What sort of message ? A popup from a dodgy website ? A message displayed by a non-browser program ? A little voice in your head ? A windows messenger (not to be confused something else called windows messenger or msn) spam message coz you didn’t update ?

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Yep it’s the old, pay us for a patch to stop people like us spamming you.
You can get it for free from here: microsoft.com/technet/securi … 3-043.mspx

4

Big Fluffy Matthew,

That’s amazing. How did you get all of that information? Teach me, please.

I kept getting that pop-up message, too.

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[quote=“jwar”]Big Fluffy Matthew,

That’s amazing. How did you get all of that information? Teach me, please. [/quote]I know everything :notworthy: Except what women really mean of course :idunno:

[quote]I kept getting that pop-up message, too.[/quote]Try installing the patch I gave the link to (the offical microsoft one), see if that helps.

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Download and run these two programs and you should get much fewer popups. Also, consider getting the Google bar for IE to block popups.

Ad-Aware - http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/
Spybot - http://www.safer-networking.org/
Googlebar - http://toolbar.google.com/

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[quote=“answerer”]Also, consider getting the Google bar for IE to block popups.[/quote]The Opera and Firefox browsers’s default settings block popups, although I think there is an option to allow them if you really want them.

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I use Firefox as my main browser, but I wouldn’t recommend it for most users. Setting some stuff up is difficult and it has problems with some plugins.

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[quote=“answerer”]I use Firefox as my main browser, but I wouldn’t recommend it for most users. Setting some stuff up is difficult and it has problems with some plugins.[/quote]Works fine for me, and I haven’t done any tinkering with it apart from adding the dictionary.com thing to the search bar.

Maybe the problems you had with it will be sorted out by the next version: version 1.0, which will actually be the first officially ‘stable’ one despite the fact that v0.8 is already working fine for me and apparently lots of other people.

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Then why don’t you switch it off?

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As far as I can see, the pop-ups we are talking about here do not come through IE, but rather through the OS. While switching to a better browser is a nice move, it will not help in this case. Deactivate the service, you wouldn’t need it anyway.