I'm getting hammered with pop-ups ...

Banned_n_austin

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What do I do?

I've ran Norton and everything ... I've never had this problem before. It is getting on my last nerve.

Would one of you techies come to my rescue?
 

BrAinPaiNt

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I suggest getting and running....spybot and adaware....you should be able to get them for free if you do a net search.

Run both and let it delete anything it finds.

IF, and only after you have tried those, that does not work....then find a program called Hijackthis

http://www.tomcoyote.org/hjt/

Just go to that address and download the program and read what the page says to do.

Hope that helps.
 

Yeagermeister

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Also download microsofts antispyware program. It works well and it's free.
 

GTaylor

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My moneys on Coolwebsearch. This is a sneaky program that pulls this stunt, both to hit you with pop-ups and avoiding detection.

If you don't mind BIA - Post your hijackthis results here.

Yeager - I like MS' Anti-Spyware, however they recently bought Claria (Formally 'Gator"), which raised eyebrows at first. Yey they have now downgraded Claria's threat to ignore. Forget shooting themselves in the foot, as far as security experts are concerned Microsoft just shot themselves in the head. There's no defending this action!

Here's a thread on MS' downgrade: http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,13793423
 

Yeagermeister

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GTaylor said:
My moneys on Coolwebsearch. This is a sneaky program that pulls this stunt, both to hit you with pop-ups and avoiding detection.

If you don't mind BIA - Post your hijackthis results here.

Yeager - I like MS' Anti-Spyware, however they recently bought Claria (Formally 'Gator"), which raised eyebrows at first. Yey they have now downgraded Claria's threat to ignore. Forget shooting themselves in the foot, as far as security experts are concerned Microsoft just shot themselves in the head. There's no defending this action!

Here's a thread on MS' downgrade: http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,13793423

Good to know....thanks but I delete everything it finds.
 

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I use:
Spyware Guard
Spyware Blaster
Registry First Aid
AntiVir
Ad-Aware
Windows Firewall
Bit Defender Firewall
and a hardware firewall....

It is sad it takes this much crap but it really does.
I got sick of having to rebuild the pc.
 

k19

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jterrell said:
I use:
Spyware Guard
Spyware Blaster
Registry First Aid
AntiVir
Ad-Aware
Windows Firewall
Bit Defender Firewall
and a hardware firewall....

It is sad it takes this much crap but it really does.
I got sick of having to rebuild the pc.

Geez JT thats alot of stuff.

Wouldnt it be easier to just quit going to all those porn sites :p:
 
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