how to rid annoying pop up's?

Use ewido. It should find what malware is causing this run a full scan, do it in safe mode. Clean the junk. Before you run ewido clear all temp internet file, cookies. Use a program called CleanUp. Read warnings befroe you run. Ewido may not be able to clean everything but it will tell you what it could not clean.

If it can not clean something you may need to do some manual delete's or download specific programs to rid yourself of the annoying pop ups. Google whatever it cannot clean there's help out there

Popup blockers, such as the Yahoo and Google toolbars, will only stop web based popups. They can help somewhat but will do nothing to stop popups on a computer that is badly infected with trojan downloaders that are contacting other computers to download and deliver the pop up ads.

Try a full cleaning and dis-infection routine, if you are getting excessive popups, or are getting popups even when you are offline.

This is the one I use (it will take some time).

1. Scan for virus and remove (free online scan) with BitDefender

http://www.bitdefender.com/site/home/

2. Scan for trojans, adware and spyware and remove (free online scan) with Ewido

http://www.ewido.net/en/

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And after your computer is fully cleaned of spyware I would suggest IE-SPYAD to prevent further problems, if you are using IE browser:

"IE-SPYAD adds a long list of sites and domains associated with known advertisers, marketers, and crapware pushers to the Restricted sites zone of Internet Explorer. Once you merge this list of sites and domains into the Registry, the web sites for these companies will not be able to use cookies, ActiveX controls, Java applets, or scripting to compromise your privacy or your PC while you surf the Net. Nor will they be able to use your browser to push unwanted pop-ups, cookies, or auto-installing programs on your PC."

http://www.spywarewarrior.com/uiuc/resource.htm

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And if your popups say "Messenger Service" at the top Title Bar. Read Here:

Older versions of Windows (pre XP-SP2) can get "Messenger Service" popups which are caused by Microsoft leaving the almost never used Messenger Service enabled by default. These type of popups will have the words "Messenger Service" up top in the title bar. This was corrected in Windows XP- Service Pack 2.

Understand that the Windows Messenger Service is completely different from, and not in any way related to, "MSN Messenger", "Windows Live Messenger" "yahoo Messenger", or any other well-known instant messaging system. Therefore, disabling the Windows Messenger service will have no effect upon your use of any other instant messaging applications. They will continue to work without trouble.

To disable this service in older versions of Windows use the free, Shoot The Messenger from:

http://www.grc.com/stm/ShootTheMessenger.htm

Good luck.

Hey in windows, use flock, It is the best one from FireFox makers,

It is easy reliable and very good tool.. I used every browser, it has

1. Popup Blocker.

2. Tab features

3. Download Manager

4. Automatic Updators

5. Photo sharing components

6. Better blogging tool.

7. NET SNIPPET-> NO NEED TO MAKE NOTES( I like this very much)

Take Note: I was in your situation, mine was so bad i couldn't go on the internet. These solutions are free and you must do all of them for it to work. Download ad-aware se (google it) and do scan and remove anything that shows up. download zone labs firewall for free from the zonelabs website. This should solve it. DO NOT INSTALL NORTON, its the worst security program and causes more problems that it intends to solve. Hope this helps

That's easy . Go to tools in the menu bar , then select pop up blocker and then click on turn of pop up blocker !!!!! good luck !!!! :)

The Google Toolbar, http://toolbar.google.com,/ Yahoo! Toolbar, http://toolbar.yahoo.com,/ are great pop-up blockers, and if you use the Firefox Browser, http://www.getfirefox.com,/ you'll have less pop-ups automatically because it is more secure then Internet Explorer.

Good luck and I hope this helps.

Hi, here is a collection of free and best antivirus software . including free online virus scan, spyware remover, adware remover, virus dector and remover. They are all free !!!

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besides, you should also use a more secure browser to protect your pc from virus. firefox is the most secure browser.

http://www.toolforyou.net/firefox/

Good Luck && Best Wishes!!!

Try using Opera as your browser. It is the bomb and I have never had a pop up issue it has a pop up filter that comes internally.

Get Stop sign free pop-up stopper.

Try looking at the website<www.panicware.com>

Good Luck

Use Mozilla Firefox instead of Internet Explorer!

Just google it, download it and say goodbye to pop-ups forever!