It seems when I access this forum, and click around(especially the back button), I now and then get randomly opening browsers to: consumerincentivepromotions (dot) com Anyone else? tom
No, sorry. I mean I do get wierd annoying pop up's, but not from this forum. I have a pop up blocker, but they still pop up. it's ******* annoying!
Didn't you recently get infected with CWS or something similar? Did you get it properly cleaned and have you been downloading stuff again?
I recommend Trend Micro's antispyware software. You can download an eval copy here, it's good for 30 days I think: http://www.trendmicro.com/en/products/desktop/as/evaluate/overview.htm It takes care of lots of nasties, including possibly the worst one CWS or Cool Web Search.
Yea you definetly have spyware, or more likely adware. You should download some kind of detection software.
Yes, I was. Since I was coming up clean by Ad-aware, AVG, SpyBot S&D, Microsoft AntiSpyware, oh and Doctor Spyware, I thought it was true popup advertisement. Since it was happing while I was reading posts, some were "hey check out my new site" posts, I wanted to see if I was alone. If so, then I've got a hidden adware junk again. Thanks for the replies, tom
Try the software I recommended. Trend is one of the best, and they bought CWS Shredder. It's one of the applications I know of that will actually kill Cool Web Search. I don't think adaware, spybot, or Spy Doctor will remove Cool Web Search completely. And Microsoft anti-spyware? hahahahahaha.
Oh! use Firefox, not IE and make sure your OS is updated will all the latest fixes. Those should fix pop up probs. I haven't got any pop ups in ages ...