Pop-Ups

[lilposhgirl]

I keep getting loads of pop-ups, i have a pop-up 'blocker' but its rubbish. Why do i keep getting them and how can i stop them? xxxx

[lightoftruth]

firslt scan your computer for any virus. Spybot and adware are good. After that stop using internet explorer and start using firefox. It has a inbuilt pop up blocker and also as most virus are designed for IE its genrally safer

[Jinky]

You could download google toolbar which has a good pop up blocker

[fo3nix]

I second firefox:

http://www.mozilla.com/firefox

Stop using internet explorer (IE) for everything except for the few badly-designed sites that require IE to work.

Firefox can be very easily "extended" with extensions, to customise it to how you want. There are some brilliant ones out there, I'd strongly recommend you installing

Adblock Plus
Tab Mix Plus
Fasterfox

You can get them all by searching for them at:
https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions.php

[Tritan]

i dont rate FireFox. It's slow and the general feel is wrong. I wouldn't bother.

Instead, stick with Internet Explorer and download AdAware (www.lavasoftusa.com) and Windows Defender (also free and very good http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx)

Once you install and update both applications, run a full sweep of your system and allow the Adaware/Defender to get rid of what risks they find.

[lilposhgirl]

Thanks guys :) xxxxxxxxx

[fo3nix]

tritan: IE is inherently insecure. so many problems have been found with IE. plus it doesn't support proper web standards.

firefox does take a while to load up, compared with IE. this is because IE is built into the windows shell, so microsoft are kind of cheating here. but once it's loaded, I find that it renders pages faster than IE does, and together with fasterfox, it also loads pages faster too.