Pop-Up software...

[Garland]

I'm getting unsolicited pop-up ads everytime I launch Internet Explorer every minute or so. I even have the "pop-up blocker" feature turned on on the browser. The are annoying and slow my computer down to a crawl at times.

What do you use to destroy these pesky pop-up ads? I know something was installed unbeknownst to me, and I can't find it. I've used Ad-aware 6.0 and Spybot-Search and Destroy with only moderate success. Any other free/cheap software out there? Or is there a technique internally to get rid of them?

Garland

[wacki]

Ah, this is my speciality!

Not even Microsoft uses Microsoft IE.
Linky (http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.09/view.html?pg=3)

Use this:
www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ (http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/)

[Utah]

I was going to post the exact same thing. Firefox rules.

[wacki]

Nice plugins for firefox:
http://update.mozilla.org/extensions/
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http://prefbar.mozdev.org/
http://update.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?application=firefox&id=10&vid=11
http://www.twannos-extensions.tk/

[Garland]

Thanks for the links. I'll look it up.

Garland

[GuyOnTilt]

Or is there a technique internally to get rid of them?

Stop using IE, and stop d/l'ing from peer-to-peer aps. Those are the reasons most people's computers get trashed.

GoT