POP UPS!!!!!!!!!!!

[Sweeper]

I'm not sure what I did, but recently I have been getting tons of pop ups!!! I don't remember changing any IE settings, and I hardly (if ever) got any pop ups. Now I get them all the time. No matter what site I go to! I tried Pop-Up stopper but then I can't click on any hyperlinks. It stops me. It's like they are dead. Anyone have a good program that could help me out.

[cunokyle]

I think you can configure pop up stopper or hold down the cntrl button when you click a link to open the link(can't remember exactly). Unless you are absolutely dead set on using only IE there are other browsers that have great pop up stoppers built in. All of the links still work fine and everything then...maybe give another browser a shot? I use Netscape and it works great...neve had a pop up get through yet and I can still click links to open them.

[FalcomPSX]

try running ad-aware, chances are you are loaded up with spyware. www.lavasoftusa.com

[Sweeper]

I have Ad-Aware and have run it several times... still keep getting these annoying pop ups.

[sixf00t4]

what do they look like? are the messenger pop ups?

what os?

i think spybot search and destroy is better than ad-aware

[puk]

by any chance is the "Messenger" service enabled??

assuming os is w2k/xp

puk

[Sweeper]

OS is XP Pro... dunno if messenger is enable or not. I don't think it is. I think I disabled it through the registry at one point.

[puk]

check again!

http://www.lantalk.net/disable_messenger.php

[Sweeper]

It's disabled. I am running Pop-Up stopper Pro (30 day trial). Some how I got it to work ok now, but only 30 days...

[Jeordiewhite]

http://security.kolla.de/
Try spybot search and destroy, it is a pretty good program for detecting stuff like this.