[mandilynn]

My boyfriend has recently been having some pop up problems. The pop ups come on even when he is not under internet explorer and I'm trying to find a way to get rid of them. I have activated his firewall on Windows XP and i have also turned off the "Messenger Service." They just won't go away.. Can someone please help?

[brendandonhu]

Run HijackThis and post the log.

[BEENTHERE]

there is a freeware program the is a pretty good called popstopper. just type in the word in and down load.

[cwolfe98]

I have been using EMS Free Surfer for a while and I do not get ANY pop-ups. Nada- zilch - Zero - nottaone!!! (and it is free)

[infokarma]

To stop the pop-ups you need to disable the Active scripting and believe me that it works great. Just perform these steps in Internet Exploer.
1. Click on Tools--> Internet Options.
2. Click on the Security tab.
3. Click on Custom level button.
4. Under Scripting section, select Disable.
Press ok.

Iam sure that this will work.

[brendandonhu]

If the popups come when the web browser isn't open, none of those solutions are going to do anything...besides hide the problem.