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Title: Pop up Problems
Post by: steved on May 10, 2004, 00:15

Hi all, This is the first time I have used his forum and hopefully someone out there can help me.
 I seem to have loaded some sort of adware on my PC at some point.. what it does is it minimizes whatever I am doing and pops up an advert using internet explorer.
I have installed panicwares free version of spybot search and destroy which found some adware software and I deleted it all but it didn?t stop this. I also installed their popup stopper which stops the popup window opening but not from it minimizing whatever I am doing which most of the time is playing online games, and having Medal of Honor minimize back to your desktop every ten minuets during a game is driving me mad!! ???

I would be most grateful of any advice

Thanks in advance Steve        

Title: Re:Pop up Problems
Post by: Sandra on May 10, 2004, 00:34

Hi Steve and :welcome:

I find Adaware to be very good, a lot of the people on here use that and Spybot as one often finds something that the other misses  :)

Its available free from :

http://www.lavasoftusa.com/

Another program to try if that doesnt work is "Hijack This", I will see if I can find a link for you for that if adaware doesnt sort it for you  :)

Also its sometimes better to run a scan in safe mode with the ssytem restore turned off, if you are using XP or ME as stuff can lurk in the system restore and reactivate itself  :(

Title: Re:Pop up Problems
Post by: Simon on May 10, 2004, 07:48

Here are some links you may find useful:

Ad Aware (http://www.lavasoft.de/)
Spybot S&D (http://www.safer-networking.org/)
Spyware Blaster (http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/)
Hijack This (http://tomcoyote.com/hjt/)

Title: Re:Pop up Problems
Post by: steved on May 10, 2004, 22:32

;D Awesome !! ;D
 I ran adaware in safe mode and it found 86 things to delete
I played Medal of Honor for an hour no problems

Thanks for your replys.. you helped me loads

Steve

Title: Re:Pop up Problems
Post by: Simon on May 10, 2004, 22:56

Glad you got it sorted, Steve.  Thanks for letting us know.   :)