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by mdog911

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I have a question regarding Pop Up ads. I know that they are fairly prevalent, but recently utilizing the Internet at my residence has become almost impossible due to these Pop Up ads. I can no longer view Email without being interrupted, or play online games for that matter. I have used the same Dial Up provider for years now, and never had a problem in the past...Now, I share the PC with my family and cannot be totally assured as to what they are doing, but I would like to give them the benfit of the doubt. I attempted to and did download some freeware Pop Up blocking programs, however, these interfered with our Email applications and effectively prevented the Inbox from appearing, much to the chagrin of my folks, who are less tech savy than myself. Additionally, other benign based items related to Pop Up technology were blocked as well, such as job opportunities (of which I am currently searching) and the like that appear in a pop up when you click to view a description. I have and run AdAware w/ the latest RefUpdate, which catches things from time to time, but nothing recently...Is there anything I can do? Are there worthwhile utilities to use? I am concerned that my Registry has been possibly modified...Many pop ups that come to me are questionable in content. Do you have any suggestions that may help me? Thank you in advance!

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by ð

I notice some of these pop-up ads are installed like a plug-in in IE. Go into IE Options, Settings, Veiw Objects, remove the damage plug-in and the ones you dont need. I removed all the plug-in except for java and Macromedia Shockwave. This seem to stop the pop-ups for me.

If that dont work, you might want to check the registry: "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run" to see if any pop-up ads are reloading it self at boot. Make sure you back you ur registry before making anychanges.

hope this help...

by joseph moore

Did you use the latest version of AdAware, version 6? I ask because the version sof AdAware before this new version were not being updated by RefUpdate since September. Lavasoft (the company that makes AdAware) stopped updating the spyware definitions on AdAware until the new V6 came out (which was on Feb 12).
So, if you use an older AdAware, I suggest you get the new one, update it and run it.
Other then that, you should do a full anti-virus scan. Virii like the "FriendlyGreetings" worm do make popup window appear.

hope this helps

by mdog911

Thanks! I was totally still using AdAware v5 w/ RefUpdate that was out of date! I downloaded v6 which helped a lot.

by rboggio1

I feel your pain. I have a constant attachment to the net via DSL. I am on the PC/Net at least 10 hours a day Monday thru Friday. Pop Ups were getting so bad I was cussing at least an hour of the day tring to get past them. I checked out a bunch of POP UP stoppers. I settled on the free version of "Pop Up Stopper".(http://www.panicware.com/popupstoppercompare.html) It stops almost all popups. Unfortunatly there are no perfect stoppers. Once you get used to how the program works it is easy to learn when you need to disable it. I disabled "Pop Up Stopper" last night to allow some JAVA screens and as soon as I turned it off I got 14 pop ups. Talk about ridiculious. Well, the point being its a personal thing, you have to find what works best for you in your situation. Remember there are no perfect ways that won't cause you some inconvenance.

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