Ad-Aware- Please help!

I get a lot of pop ups on my computer, so I decided to try Ad-aware to make it stop. I ran it and it quarantined 69 files. When I open internet explorer, I still get tons of popups- porn, diet sites, programs to get rid of spam, etc. What can I do to make this stop?
Any ideas? Please let me know.

Thanks in advance

Becky

 

Thank you

I will certainly try all those things. I really appreciate your advice Anything to make those dang things stop!

Becky

 

Thanks

I just did spybot, and they STILL came up! It did find quite a few, and I used Ad-aware last night. I'm trying to find a pop up blocker now. Thanks again

Becky

 

thx MA... nice little program

 

thx robo.... just uninstalled/disabled both those things =]

 

Here ya go Becky, hope this helps.
It does a pretty good job, and it's free.

http://www.panicware.com/product_psfree.html

 

Thanks again

I haven't tried all those things yet, but I will as soon as I can. Thanks again. Stupid porn popups
You people are great!
Becky

 

I've read this whole thread and all are good things to do. I had something like this and I did all of the above without relief. I finally ran Hijack This .

It gives you a snapshot of everything going on. Cut and paste the log here and we'll rip it apart. There's a process running in there to call all those adds up.

Good luck

Edit, I just reread Becky's first post and it could also be a browser hijack. in any case, the advice remains, it'll find it.

 

here is a website

For every body out there who is having problems with the messenger in xp You might want to go to the following link and download this program that does it for you. this website also has many programs that will make your system more secure. I find it to be very usefull to test my firewall and ports.

http://grc.com/x/ne.dll?rh1dkyd2

 

Spyware, adware and nowhere...

Unfortunately I became familiar with spyware/adware programs in assisting a client site. All of the above is sound advice and I have used most of them.

I use Spybot exclusively though many users have said the Spybot/Adware combo is good. None do very well if the detection rules/databases aren't kept updated, just like an anti-virus.

A question for Becky to consider. You haven't been partaking of the plethora of "free" P2P file exchange packages like Kazaa have you? If so uninstall them and get a "clean" shareware version or, in Kazaa's kase (sic) there are "cleaning" utilities. Most do not like being uninstalled.

Read the EULA's on "free"ware carefully (REALLY!). If it has statements like "by agreeing to this license the user entitles the provider to update the software on their system at anytime without prior notification....." or "information gathered will be used in confidence by the vendor and the vendor's associates for the purpose of ..." forget it!!!!!!

Personally I have grown to hate "free" spyware/adware programs. Users spend 10 minutes corrupting their system, come crying to me because uninstall did not stop the problem(s) and I spend hours getting the crap off their system.

And then they download another one! I finally (fourth time!) told one person to clean it up himself or live with it. I finally cleaned it up after his supervisor asked me to. Haven't heard from him since.

 

Also, if you did install things like Kazaa media desktop (heaven forbid!!) you might have a strange program running in the background that you can detect in Add/remove programs. Happened to me once when one of our computers were getting all kinds of nasty pop ups. I found an unrecognized program installed and after uninstalling it, the problem was gone. I know it sounds too easy to be true. But I am always overlooking the easy stuff first.