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re: Question about 'Stop Pop-Up Spam Messages' Thursday, July 17, 2003 at 8:36 pm Posted by jagged ben (3536 messages posted) You've got spyware/adware on your computer. Download Ad-Aware and/or Spybot Search and Destroy... On Thursday, July 17, 2003 at 2:42 pm, J Torres wrote: >I have disabled messanger but I am still receiving pop- ups. The pop-ups I receive >occur whether or not I am running explorer. They even buildup on my desktop. I have >also tried Earthlink pop up stopper and the new Goggle popup stopper to no avail. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Stop Pop-Up Spam Messages' Monday, July 21, 2003 at 2:30 pm Posted by J Torres (2 messages posted) I have tried spybot but the popups continue. Would AD-aware be better or is there a way that I could find where the spyware is hidden myself and then delete it. On Thursday, July 17, 2003 at 8:36 pm, jagged ben wrote: >You've got spyware/adware on your computer. Download Ad-Aware and/or Spybot Search >and Destroy... > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Stop Pop-Up Spam Messages' Thursday, July 31, 2003 at 8:27 am Posted by cas (2 messages posted) I installed something called pop-upkiller. (pop-upkiller.com) They'll give you 15 day free trial. So far it works pretty good at killing all unwanted pop-ups but you have to disable it when you want to access certain sites. On Thursday, July 17, 2003 at 2:42 pm, J Torres wrote: >I have disabled messanger but I am still receiving pop- ups. The pop-ups I receive >occur whether or not I am running explorer. They even buildup on my desktop. I have >also tried Earthlink pop up stopper and the new Goggle popup stopper to no avail. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Stop Pop-Up Spam Messages' Wednesday, September 10, 2003 at 12:31 pm Posted by xp user (1 messages posted) I have the exact same problem. The popups start when I start my computer, before I start IE. My corporate IT department has tried loading all of the pop-up stopper software named in the posts above. It has cut down on the volume, but not stopped the problem. (It is succeeding in killing my available memory, though.) Messenger has always been disabled. Next step will be to reimage my hard drive. There has to be another solution, something is running on startup, why can't I find it? It's very frustrating. Thanks for any suggestions! On Monday, July 21, 2003 at 2:30 pm, J Torres wrote: >I have tried spybot but the popups continue. Would AD-aware be better or is there >a way that I could find where the spyware is hidden myself and then delete it. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Stop Pop-Up Spam Messages' Wednesday, January 26, 2005 at 8:31 am Posted by Elsie (1 messages posted) Adaware is spyware. Do a good search on the net and you will find this. Why do you think when you run adaware, that it always shows tracking. This made me suspicious and found out it is spyware. Get rid of it. On Thursday, July 17, 2003 at 8:36 pm, jagged ben wrote: > >You've got spyware/adware on your computer. Download Ad-Aware and/or Spybot Search >and Destroy... > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum