Ad pop-ups

[DarkDragon]

I am just connected to the internet and Ads/pop-ups just flash onto my screen ...I am doing nothing but being connected ...

 

[brianF]

Good place to start would be to download and run adaware to check for spyware
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/

If that doesn't fix it go to start/run/type msinfo32 and press enter, go to software environment, expand it, select startup programs, go to edit menu, choose select all, back to edit menu, choose copy, then paste the list of your startup programs back into the thread, maybe someone will see a program that is causing the problem.

 

[Paul Nagel]

You probably have some add/spy program installed. I would goto the following site and download AdAware 5.62 and run it. I will most likely find some programs in that catagory and let you remove them.

http://www.lavasoftusa.com/


I also like the program called PopUp Killer 1.42. It can be configured to kill popup adds and other unwanted pages automatically.

http://software.xfx.net/mainindex.htm

 

[DarkDragon]

I do have Pop-up killer ...but it waits untill the pop-up window opens then kills it ... So when i am playing Half-life online... the pop-up crashes the game then gets killed ... I just dont understand why it never did it B4 but after i reformated , Then i get all these problems and anoyences.

 

[Paul Nagel]

Did you download and run Adaware to look for hidden programs the load popup adds?

 

[DarkDragon]

Whoever came up with ad-aware ... lol ive had that for a while ...i stopped using it when it froze my comp ... but it seems to be working now ... haha

 

[hewee]

Turn off you java to stop pop ups.

Also on this site if you have the java off you don't see any ads at all.

I just reload the page with java and there are 10 ads on the page.
That counts the "Sponsored Links About Windows" that are here because they are all click tru links.

Plus it will speed up page loads if the java is off.