Popups are driving me CRAZY!

[Mike]

Everytime I get on IE there's this marketing web site that
pops up every page I go to. I've tried everything to get
rid of it. Please help! Also, evertime I go to google or
yahoo, my computer stops responding. What's up?

 

[Jon Kennedy]

Get Ad-Aware - http://www.lavasoft.de with the latest reference file (they have an automatic updater tool there, too) and run it. Could be spyware/malware/adware causing this issue.

If no joy, in IE go to Tools...Internet Options...Advanced tab, Browsing section, uncheck "Enable third-party browser extensions", click Apply, click Okay, reboot. If that solves your problem, then more troubleshooting is needed to find out exactly which program, or Browser Helper Object (BHO) is causing this problem. You don't want to leave it at that, as some BHOs are useful or necessary - like Adobe Acrobat for reading .pdf files or an essential component of Norton AV. Get BHO Cop: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,2023,00.asp - read all about BHOs, download link is on the right, under Contents. Then uncheck all items, and then gradually replace one or two at a time to narrow down the culprit.

If no joy, go to Start...Run, "msconfig", StartUp tab and see if there is anything there that looks suspicious. You will also see the path where that program is starting from.

See this site for more information on pop-ups and possible hijacking of your system: http://www.mvps.org/inetexplorer/Darnit.htm#pop_up

 

[ng]

Netscape Navigator v7.01 has a built in popup stopper. It works beautifully.

 

[Jim Higgins]

Try http://www.panicware.com/product_downloads.html and download the free
edition. Has worked well for me with IE6.

 

[silas]

before runing ad-aware delete cookies and temp files (tools-internet-delete
cookies)
ad-aware will take about 30-40 minutes.

 

[H. S.]

Everytime I get on IE there's this marketing web site that
pops up every page I go to. I've tried everything to get
rid of it. Please help! Also, evertime I go to google or
yahoo, my computer stops responding. What's up?

For internet browsing, I solved this problem once and for all. I
installed Mozilla Firebird:
http://texturizer.net/firebird/download.html

MozillaFirebird is just a browser, whereas Mozilla contains everything
(browser, mail client, chat client, newsgroup reader etc).

It gives me complete control over to allow to open popups, which sites
to block, tabbed browsing, font size control (IE gave me only limited
font size variability), etc.

For other stuff (file browsing, eg) I still use IE.

HTH,
->HS