Advertisement Popups

Discussion in 'General Chat' started by Mike S., Aug 21, 2007.

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    Anybody have any advice on what software to use remove advertisement popups that would be free? My brother was on my computer looking at movie downloads and now I have a bunch of ads popping up on my computer.
     
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    Format it .... and reinstall the windows ... thats the best thing i do ....
     
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    I don't want to have to reinstall everything on the computer, isn't there some software to remove it?
     
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    Search around on google. A lot of times finding the spyware that is creating these popups is easy and remove it. Also check with spyware / adware removing programs.

    Next time brake his fingers.

    Mark
     
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    you can try downloading "Hijjack Now" which is a spy ads remover.. if that's don't work then you must have to re-install your copy of windows.. the one which you get with your windows pacakge but it must be fresh installation.
     
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    I ended up downloading zerospyware lite, but it has been running 8 minutes so far and is only 4% complete, so it might be a while. One the upperhand I found 16 spyware components already. If this doesn't work I will try the other downloads. I decided to edit my host file in windows/system32/drivers/etc and added two of the sites that kept popping up and blocked them, but I'd rather just remove the initial source, so hopefully this works.
     
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    Try the one i asked u to try .. it will take 2-3 minutes to download and 2 minutes to clean !! ;)
     
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