Please Help Me - Pop Ups:(

[mr_grinch69]

Hey I'm new here.. anyways i have a major problem with pop-ups. I will leave my computer on but exit EVERY program close all IE windows basically leave virtually nothing running but i come back to my computer and theres over 50 pop ups. I get a pop up about every 4 minutes on average either from "Party Poker" "WinAntiVirusPro" "E-Bay" And just about a million other sites.

I've scanned my computer with Ad-Aware SE, XoftSpy, Spysweeper, TrendMicro, and all of them foudn and removed all the problems but still i keep getting the pop ups and i don't know what to do anymore.

Please, help.

- joey.

 

[compguy91]

I've had that problem before and I've used spysweeper, ad-aware and windows defender and they didn't get rid of it. I would recommend using a program called HiJackThis. You can download it at: http://www.download.com/HijackThis/3000-8022_4-10379544.html?tag=lst-0-1
after you do a scan you can copy and paste the log on this website and someone can help (sorry I don't know how to read those logs) or you can go to this website and paste the results there. http://hjt.networktechs.com/

Hope that helps,
Troy


P.S. you may want to consider using another browser such as firefox, avant, opera or something more secure. IE 6 has alot of security vulnerabilities IMO and all my security problems have come from that. Just my .02 though.

 

[pctechmike1]

Try Spybot-Search and Destroy.

You can get it at: http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html

 

[rakedog]

Don't download stupid things and you won't have popups.

 

[cbachinger]

downloader Adblocker

 

[cbachinger]

IE 6 and Firefox ver.5 also automatically come with blockers.

 

[borat_sagdiyev]

have u thought of doing the scans in safe mode?

 

[brut]

ok i use spybot S&D and Ad-Aware and if you want a good pop-up blocker get pop-up stopper free edition

 

[MarxSoccer]

Use firefox, problem solved.

 

[spyware man]

Please follow my guide and post a hijackthis log

http://www.tech-forums.net/showthread.php?threadid=117351