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Naomi Norback

I have been getting some really gross pop up ads on my
computer when I am on internet explorer and I want to get
rid of them. How can I do that?
 
Naomi Norback said:
I have been getting some really gross pop up ads on my
computer when I am on internet explorer and I want to get
rid of them. How can I do that?
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The best product I have used (and installed on all 4 PC's at home is PopUp
Stopper from Panicware: Here is a link for you:

http://www.panicware.com/products.html

If you install PopUp Stopper and an Ad-Killer, such as AdAware from
Lavasoft, you will see a magnificent improvement.

HTH

Dave (who still misses his tour of duty at Fort Greeley, AK)
 
-----Original Message-----
I have been getting some really gross pop up ads on my
computer when I am on internet explorer and I want to get
rid of them. How can I do that?
.
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If you don't want to spend any money, www.panicware.com
has a free pop-up stopper available to download in
seconds. It has worked great for me.
 
stop looking up porn!! and you might have some porn sites
that auto-saved in your favorites... so check for that
 
Well a couple of things may have occured. "Someone" may
have been visiting a porno or hackers web site. If you
don't have your IE set to disallow ActiveX etc the site
could have installed an automatic run program on your
computer. Or else you could have opened up an email with a
worm attached.

Update your virus protection (or do a free online scan
available at most anti-virus sites) and do a scan for
virus' and worms.

Also, while your browser is open, go to Tools > Internet
Options > Temporary Internet Files > Settings and then
View Objects. This is where internet programs (like
Shockwave) are downloaded and run. Just delete everything
in there. It won't hurt your computer at all. You will
have to reload things like Shockwave the next time a web
site needs it, but that is not a big deal and it is quick.
But one of the files in there might be driving the pop ups.

If a worm is driving the pop ups you might need to do more
cleaning in the registry. But save that for someone who
understands how to work in the registry. You could really
mess up your computer if you don't.
 
-----Original Message-----
I have been getting some really gross pop up ads on my
computer when I am on internet explorer and I want to get
rid of them. How can I do that?
.
It sounds like you accidentally picked up an
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interstitial ad program that writes itself to your hard
disc. Check through installed programs and see if you
can find it. It's the one that begs you not to uninstall
it. Keep at it as it has about three steps to do to get
it off of there, plus some other file that's hard to
find. After that, you might think about saving all of
your impoortant files and reformatting your hard drive
and reinstalling everything, then stay away from where
you got it.
 
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