Porno

[Del Murder]

I downloaded this popup stopper and now I get random popups for porno sites, without even visiting a porno site. I attribute it to this since I have not done anything different on my computer for the last few weeks.

Make them go away! They're not even good sites either, 19.95 a month or something like that.

Ack! Another one! Help!

[crono_logical]

Either a) you downloaded a crap program, I'd recommend this one instead, or b) you got a virus/trojan/something bad on your machine doing that, and you need to run/update your virus scanner

[Del Murder]

So far so good. What's a good virus scanner?

[crono_logical]

Good question, I don't know any good ones that are also free - I get mine licensed by the university since my machine is connected to their network

[Flying Mullet]

Norton and McAffee(sp?) are the two biggest virus scanners. They usually aren't too expensive up front(if not free) but where they get you is after the first free month or so you have to buy a subscription to keep your virus definitions current. If you just want to do a one time scan of your machine, a lot of times you can find virus scanners to download for free to use a couple of times, then they expect you to pay to keep your virus definitions current, but you can just tell them "No thanks, my computer's clean now.".

[Yamaneko]

http://www.grisoft.com/

I use this one. It's free, small and simple.

Use Firebird Del. Stop supporting MS.

[Big Ogre Umaro]

Screw not supporting MS *MS Office and Windows XP*

[Yamaneko]

Fine then. I'll start coding everything in Frontpage and submit it to the main site.

[Del Murder]

That popup stopper is great, thanks. The virus scanner Yams mentioned didn't catch anything on my comp, so what other source could the ads be? They're gone because of the stopper, but I'd also like to get rid of the source as well.

[TheAbominatrix]

I have a program called 'Ad Aware' which goes through your computer and deletes all the spyware you may have downloaded. I dont have the address for it, but I think it should be easy to find. Try cnet.com first. But if you use Kaaza, make sure you dont let it delete any files associated with it (it will ask you before it deletes them) or it'll stop working.

The ads are probably spy ware, if they arent from a virus. And you may wanna clear your cache, too.

[Yamaneko]

http://www.lavasoftusa.com/

[Shlup]

I ran that thing and it didn't screw up Kazaa. It just deleted a bunch of crap from Comet Cursor.

[Big Ogre Umaro]

Yeah it doesn't do that anymore.

[Del Murder]

I uninstalled the program and cleared a few cache folders and now they're gone (I turned off Pop Up Stopper to check and it's been like an hour). So DON'T get NoAds, that was the one I was running. cl's is so much nicer.

Thanks for everyone's help. Maybe you guys aren't as big a jerks as I thought.

[eestlinc]

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