Topic: Need help with pop ups (Read 3125 times)

Anonymous · « **on:** April 30, 2003, 07:17:14 AM »

OK, this is really starting to piss me off. I'm playing Day of Defeat then all of a sudden, my internet explorer starts up on its own and gives me a fucking ad. I can't figure out how this is happening. How can one tell IE to start up on it's own and point to a specific site every hour or so? I checked the task manager and that was empty. So where is this being run from? I'm on Win98.

snyperx · « **Reply #1 on:** April 30, 2003, 09:13:56 AM »

Since I'm at school, I can't figure out what programs I use at home to stop ad's, however, I can ask you this: Do you get rid of spy-ware on your computer?

Anonymous · « **Reply #2 on:** April 30, 2003, 09:24:27 AM »

I was just reading a post from demo at HN and downloaded spybot seek and destroy. Just ran it. I`ll find out within 1 hour if that took care of it.

ho0ber · « **Reply #3 on:** April 30, 2003, 10:07:40 AM »

I heard something abut this happening... I'll ask the friend of mine that knows what he is talking about.

snyperx · « **Reply #4 on:** April 30, 2003, 11:53:40 AM »

Used to happen to me a lot when I had Kazaa. I switched to Kazaa-Lite and it hasn't happened, but I also cleaned all my spy-ware, and downloaded SpyStopper and Popup Killer all in the same day, appears to have done the trick.