Pop Up Ads

[hawk]

I am a little confused about pop-up ads. My WinXP Home system with IE
gets many pop-up ads after any time on the internet. My other Win98se
system with Mozilla gets no pop-up ads.

What is the difference?

Also, I have seen a couple of programs, one named Ad-Aware and the other
SpyBot. Will these programs eliminate pop-up ads? If not please
recommend a good pop-up ad stopper.

Thanks and regards, hawk

 

[hawk]

Thanks for the reply. The pop-up windows are titled "Internet Explorer".
They appear to be little browser windows. They are hidden behind my main
browser window until I quit my internet session and close IE. Then there
are all of these little browser windows cluttering up the desktop. This
doesn't happen with Mozilla on my Win98se system.

I connect to the internet through a router on a small home network. The
Hacker Whacker site reports that my computers are not visible to the
internet.

I use Norton Anti Virus as part of Norton SystemWorks. Everything
appears to be working just fine. There was one period a few months ago
when it appeared that someone was trying to send me a virus via E-mail
and Norton always caught the suspected virus.

Even with SpyBot installed, I am getting these little browser pop-up ad
windows.

Thanks and regards, hawk