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Let me know what news group to post this to if this is not the right one...

I made the mistake of a lifetime. I was browsing the web looking for an
audio demo of "Sweet Home Alababma" for my son...he is learning how to play
the guitar and his instructor is teaching it to him, but he has never heard
the song before...I thought I could find it on the web and play it for
him....Well I did...and now I am screwed...

I was prompted to install something...not sure if it was an activex or
plugin or what, but since I did, now I am getting a million pop-up ads all
the time. I mean I can have IE completely closed down and it will still
automatically open up and start throwing adds at me all over the place. It
just happend while I was typing this...My processor and memory was pegged at
100%. I had to get task manager and end task as fast as I could. There
were about 100 windows opened up. Some of the adds were for getting rid of
pop up adds and charging a fee for it. This is crazy....

Can anyone point me in the right direction to get this to stop???
 
J said:
Let me know what news group to post this to if this is not the right one...

I made the mistake of a lifetime. I was browsing the web looking for an
audio demo of "Sweet Home Alababma" for my son...he is learning how to play
the guitar and his instructor is teaching it to him, but he has never heard
the song before...I thought I could find it on the web and play it for
him....Well I did...and now I am screwed...

I was prompted to install something...not sure if it was an activex or
plugin or what, but since I did, now I am getting a million pop-up ads all
the time. I mean I can have IE completely closed down and it will still
automatically open up and start throwing adds at me all over the place. It
just happend while I was typing this...My processor and memory was pegged at
100%. I had to get task manager and end task as fast as I could. There
were about 100 windows opened up. Some of the adds were for getting rid of
pop up adds and charging a fee for it. This is crazy....

Can anyone point me in the right direction to get this to stop???
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Get Ad-Aware 6.0, Build 181 or later, here:
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/support/download/. Update and run this regularly
to get rid of most "spyware/hijackware" on your machine. If it has to fix
things, be sure to re-boot and rerun AdAware again and repeat this cycle
until you get a clean scan. The reason is that it may have to remove
things which are currently "in use" before it can then clean up others.

Another excellent program for this purpose is SpyBot Search and Destroy
available here: http://security.kolla.de/ SpyBot Support Forum here:
http://www.net-integration.net/cgi-bin/forums/ikonboard.cgi. I recommend
using both normally. After fixing things with SpyBot S&D, be sure to
re-boot and rerun SpyBot again and repeat this cycle until you get a clean
"no red" scan. The reason is that SpyBot sometimes has to remove things
which are currently "in use" before it can then clean up others.
 
For protection against pop-ups and other annoyances, you should have 4
programs installed. Here they are, including what I use:

1. Pop-up Stopper: Pop-Up Stopper from Panicware
2. Anti-spyware: Ad-Aware from Lavasoft
3. Anti-virus software: AVG from Grisoft
4. Firewall: I use a router w/built-in firewall

There are free versions of items 1,2,3 downloadable from the internet. Keep
all three updated and run them often (Pop-Up stopper always runs in the
background unless disabled).

HTH
 
For protection against pop-ups and other annoyances, you should have 4
programs installed. Here they are, including what I use:

1. Pop-up Stopper: Pop-Up Stopper from Panicware
2. Anti-spyware: Ad-Aware from Lavasoft
3. Anti-virus software: AVG from Grisoft
4. Firewall: I use a router w/built-in firewall

There are free versions of items 1,2,3 downloadable from the internet. Keep
all three updated and run them often (Pop-Up stopper always runs in the
background unless disabled).

HTH
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Good advice. There are good free firewalls as well.
Zone Alarm, Outpost and Sygate are three to try.

I use POW pop-up stopper from Analog X software. They
also offer a free program to control cookies.
 
Are these recommendations freeware or do they cost?
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Each of the firewalls comes in both free and paid versions.
The free versions do the job -- don't have all the bells and
whistles but they protect your computer as well as the paid
versions. You may have to look around the websites a bit
to find the free version to download, since naturally they do
push their paid versions a bit.

There are some other free firewalls, but the three I mentioned
are the easiest for the novice to use. Whichever one you choose,
be sure to read the Help file to understand how it works. Each
will protect your computer from "attacks" and will ask you to
give permission for various programs on your computer to access
the Internet, thus protecting you against "trojans".
 
I have anti-virus software already. I have a Linksys router as well and it
acts as a firewall. The software I installed added a search window to my
browser. I found the website and the uninstall for it. I uninstalled it
and no more pop ups....looks like the company was one of those that installs
it and then advertises to get rid of pop ups...so damn unethical....

Thanks anyway for your recommendations...
 
My personal favorite softwares for these problems are:

1. EAcceleration Stop-Sign.
This is an inclusive software for pop-up killers, threat
scanner, email sensor, download guard, and spam blocker.
It automatically updates its virus protection everytime
you connect to the internet. The program does cost money,
but its well worth it.
http://www.eacceleration.com

2. Naviscope
This little program speeds your connection to the
internet, and includes a pop-up killer, and will even
block ads on your browser screen. When you attempt to
connect to a site, the program has a bar that you can
right-click on to ping the address, and run trace routes.

The program itself is probably freeware or shareware,
meaning it would likely collect information about your net
habits in exchange for its free use. I find it works well
in conjunction with Stop-Sign. I have virtually
eliminated pop-up ads, and the threat scanner from Stop-
Sign kills all spy-ware that comes into my computer. The
naviscope site has been shut down recently, but I found a
mirror site to download from when I searched for it.
 
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