Another computer geeks wanted thread
 

I'm gettin pop ups like who latley, and I cant seem to find the culprit. I have norton avti-virus (always running and updated), ad aware (updated) and spy bot SD (updated), and i still get these damn things, and its annoying as ----. Anyone know of a program or something that can fix this problem? uz i dont wanna take my comp in to get fixed, too much money

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pretty much everyone offers a pop up blocker.

do you have aim? they offer a free one.

who is your service provider, if they dont have one, then get yahoo's, aims...etc

visit download.com

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is it regular ad popups, (they only popup when you visit certain web sites) or is it the annoying spyware type deal.

if it's a spyware, you can usually tell what it is by its window title;
or it will even somtimes advertise itself;
or you can look at task manager (ctrl+alt+del > task manager) and look for things that are not supposed to be running.

once you find out what type it is, do a google search on it and most likely people have remedies for it.

next step is, quit using MS internet explorer as your main browser, and switch to either opera, or firefox. only use MSIE if a website requires it.

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switch to linux. its free.

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its ad ware and spyware pop ups. i think i got alot of it out, most of it was purityscan, and theres some others too. I downloaded tizzletalk for aim, haha, and thats what put it all on my comp. I have pop up blockers, I use firefox too.

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HiJackThis
http://www.download.com/HijackThis/3...ml?tag=lst-0-1

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are you running xp? if so did you disable the windows messanger?

run msconfig go to services and disable messanger service. and go to startup and disable any other bad stuff.

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Also snatch up SP2 ;)

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The use of mozila firefox as web browser will be a great releive instead of using IE with all those security holes.
You can always switch to linux ;)

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web root spysweeper