pop ups, It's a bad world out there 1

[murgychoor]

Hi all. I have antivirus, firewall(software), spyware remover, spywatch, and windows washer to no avail. Pop ups, baaaaaad ones are still there within seconds tens of 'em. What to do? ( besides not connecting to the internet)

 

[SYAR2003]

Use the google toolbar for ie .
Comes with a great popup stopper.
And is great to serch with..

http://toolbar.google.com/

 

[murgychoor]

Thanks, I'll try that

 

[linney]

Are they coming in through the Messenger Service?

http://www.tacktech.com/display.cfm?ttid=210

 

[murgychoor]

Ads might be comming through messenger service, but I've been using messenger for years and never had this problems. All this started about 2-3 months ago. I do not remember installing any software that could be causing this.

 

[linney]

The Messenger Service has nothing to do with Windows Messenger or MSN Messenger. Confusing I know, but they are different.

Try disabling the service and see if the Ads stop. You can easily enable it again if they don't.

 

[Griff389]

it is the windows messenger service on 2k or XP, rather than disabling the service, which can be used by system messages, it would be better to install a firewall and block the two ports that these come in on. The two ports and some info on this can be found at:

http://www.lurhq.com/popup_spam.html

If it's IE popups, the free version of popup stopper isn't too bad and catches quite a lot of annoying ads and windows. Should be available at

http://www.download.com

Regards
Griff