Task Manager Inoperative

[Wayne]

Lately my CTRL-ALT-DEL has not been functioning, also
RClick and trying to bring up Task Manager does nothing. I
read other posts concerning a '..has been disabled by your
administrator...' issues some have but I am not receiving
that message nor any other messages (error or otherwise).
The two actions simply produce no response whatsoever.

I also have Ad-Aware and have run it but it doesn't seem
to help. Seems some spyware or something keeps popping up
browser windows when the system is left on but unattended
for a while. I come back and have a screen full of ads and
windows and sometimes dozens of download dialogues asking
for confirmation (Thank goodness I set securities to
forbid these without confirmation).

I can't ID or locate the culprit so any assistance would
be appreciated.

[Miha Pihler]

AdAware does not help against pop-ups. It only removes Ad-Ware and Spy-Ware.

To prevent pop-ups follow this instructions
[url]http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/using/howto/communicate/stopspam.asp[/url]

Install and use some personal firewall software (anything is better then
nothing)...

--
Mike
MCSA 2K, MCSE 2K, MCT, ...

"Wayne" <wayconn1@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
news:01fe01c34fc5$77e8e850$a601280a@phx.gbl...

> Lately my CTRL-ALT-DEL has not been functioning, also
> RClick and trying to bring up Task Manager does nothing. I
> read other posts concerning a '..has been disabled by your
> administrator...' issues some have but I am not receiving
> that message nor any other messages (error or otherwise).
> The two actions simply produce no response whatsoever.
>
> I also have Ad-Aware and have run it but it doesn't seem
> to help. Seems some spyware or something keeps popping up
> browser windows when the system is left on but unattended
> for a while. I come back and have a screen full of ads and
> windows and sometimes dozens of download dialogues asking
> for confirmation (Thank goodness I set securities to
> forbid these without confirmation).
>
> I can't ID or locate the culprit so any assistance would
> be appreciated.
>