My computer came back from repair a few weeks ago and after surfing the net this week when ever I start explorer I get FIVE popups and other windows. All spyware. It has gotten bad enough that I cant use the internet expect for brief periods of time. Whats worse about these popups is that they fill up the entire screen and often fails to load completely. Since it doesn't load completely when you try to 'x' it out it often leads to a 'page not reponding' message and the entire computer feezes up afterwards. Anyone know of any fr.ee. .spy.ware. rem.oval programs?
This seems to work rather well, haven't had any issues with spyware, although I dont intall any untrusted applications. http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx
I just did this to my laptop last week. Solved a lot of problems. It really isn't that hard to do and it is 50 times faster than it used to be. Forgot to add, I had viruses and spyware that I spent a week trying a bunch of different programs to remove. That is why I started over.
Spybot or Adaware if your still getting popups etc use hijack this to scan your machine and post the results, ill look at them if you want
The one I was using was search and destroy, which works good for the easy stuff, but would not get rid of whatever I had.