pop ups

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by ziggi, Mar 20, 2009.

  1. ziggi

    ziggi Private E-2

    Hi,

    I went on the explorer web site a while ago and went on add ons, I clicked on utube upload and bbci, from then on I have had pop ups, but these pop ups are always to do with whatever site I am on, eg: if looking at shoes I get a shoe advert, if looking at pc's I get a pc advert, I know that I must have clicked something to accept these arranged pop ups because I read the help appliction in explorer and it said that the only pop ups that can't be got rid of is the arranged ones.

    Anyway I have uninstalled explorer and reinstalled it, I have even used fire fox to see if that would stop all the pop ups but it didn't , I also have all the spy adaware that you can get but to no avail. I went through the add ons and saw nothing and I have even looked on the registry.

    The only other thing I could do is to format my pc, but I have lots of things on it and it would take ages to put it all onto disk.

    If anyone can help I would be very grateful.

    Yours Ziggi x
     
  2. buggabear

    buggabear MajorGeek

    Read and Run Me First

    I know you said you have run the spyware programs, but you need to go to the link I posted above and clean your computer, once you have gone through the cleaning. the pop ups should stop, it sounds like you have malware...
     
  3. ziggi

    ziggi Private E-2

    Hi,
    Thanks for that, so far so good.
    ziggi x
     

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