pop ups

[Rek]

I've been having a really bad pop up problem as of late, and its not spyware or adware... and I'm |__| this close to reformatting.

any suggestions?

[stos289]

Well, what internet browser are you using? A good free browser would be FireFox (http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/), it has a built in pop up blocker. If you are using IE and don't want to switch (or are looking for another pop up blocker), I would suggest getting the Google Toolbar (http://toolbar.google.com/) (it has a great pop up blocker). Hope I could help.

[Rek]

nice try mate... but I'm actually getting firefox popups... its a bit of a big deal -,-

[Mut]

stop looking at porn sites. that should eliminate 90% of the reason why you are getting popups. i use both ie (with google toolbar) and firefox and i get zero pop ups.

[kAi]

is your block pop ups unchecked in your firefox browser options.

[Rek]

@ mut- i never used to get them ever, and I don't get when I'm at pr0n... it just pops up randomly... sucks alot.

@ kAi- ...yes.

[kAi]

Tools > options > web features

and tick the Block Popup Windows box.

[?igma]

But worse than the pop-ups is the thing that installed it, most likely something like msn messenger plus ..never download shit like that its ALL spyware. (meaning that adaware wont find all of it)

[Rek]

hm... i could have sworn I deleted msn messenger -,- yahoo wouldn't do it, would it?

and kai... I have the block popup windows thingy done... did that when I first got mozilla which was the first thing I downloaded on this computer... I thank you, but its done.

[-ANBU-Sasuke-]

Most Likely theres some program in inside your computer installed by a website or of some sort. You have to find the source and delete the files. In most cases it would be safe to deleted them, but in some it is not.

Normaly Firefox blocks all pop up's, are you sure that the ad's are in a firefox window, or are they in a IE window?

I've fixed some computers from pop-ups and such, I usualy go under Run -> HKEY_CURRENT_USER ->Microsoft -> Windows -> Current Version -> Run and delete some programs and .exe from runing at start up, and delete the values that show "C:/.....eadfs.exe (Example) Normaly those are adware and spyware programs and are useless. I suggest backing up your registry before actualy doing this. It is different that msconfig, because that only temporarly deletes some entrys, deleting the registry entry would be more effective.

Get a legit version of Norton, Macafee, or some other Known anti-virus program, do a complete sweep of the computer, normaly the pirated versions don't find shit. Get adware and spybot to remove (or any other good program) to remove all adware/spyware. After doing all of this, go under system and (assuming your runing winxp) disable and then enable system restore so it deletes all "Check points" of your computer, so that the virus/what ever doesn't come back after restart.

Just in case you have another problem.

[GhostKaGe]

sounds like you got adware or spyware
try some of these


run anti virus

check add remove programs for things that shouldn't be there like bullseye or gator

remove real player cause thats just 1 really big virus i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif

[Rek]

been there, done that... and I acccidently deleted my sound drivers... -,-

but it took 2 seconds to get back off ASUS.com

[Hellraiser]

I don't know if this will help or not, but here's some adware/spyware removal programs I use.

Ad-Aware (http://www.download.com/ad-aware-se-personal-edition/3000-8022_4-10319876.html?tag=lst-0-2)
Spybot S&D (http://www.download.com/Spybot-Search-Destroy/3000-8022_4-10289035.html?tag=lst-0-2)
SpySubtract / CWShredder (http://www.intermute.com/spysubtract/cwshredder_download.html)
Spy Sweeper (http://www.webroot.com/downloads/)

Here's some online virus scans:

TrendMicro (http://housecall.trendmicro.com/)
Panda Scan (http://www.pandasoftware.com/activescan/com/activescan_principal.htm)