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Posted by: bamakaye
Hi and tks. for the welcome. I am having trouble with pop-ups. I don't know what is causing them. I have never had this problem before. I do have pop-up stoppers but for some reason any I install are not working for me. Hope you can help. Tks. bamakaye
Posted by: compukeith
Are you running Windows XP? If so, I would highly recommend that you download/install and run Microsoft Antispyware (BETA 1) from http://www.microsoft.com/athome/sec...re/default.mspx.
If you're running a version of windows older than Windows 2000, then go get Spybot search and destroy and Adaware and run them both. Most likely you've got spyware/adware installed and that's causing the popups.
Posted by: TwiztidJuggalo
What is so good about MS Anti-Spyware? What makes it different from Ad-Aware and Spybot S&D? I use Spybot, Ad-Aware, and AVG (actually not yet since AVG doesn't run on 64-bit windows, but soon) my computer is spotless
-matt
Posted by: compukeith
Well, I find that it finds a TON more spyware and crap than both of them combined and it's definitely got superior resident protection. For instance, when _I_ specifically double-click on a batch file, I get a message from MS Antispyware asking me if it's OK for said batch file to actually run. It lets me know any time anything edits the hosts file, puts itself in any startup or run key (in the registry) and is just very thurough.
The only bad part is that it won't run on anything older than Windows 2000.
I have Microsoft Antispyware, ZoneAlarm Pro, and McAfee Enterprise 8.0i Enterprise running on my desktop (and soon going to have a hardware firewall (Smoothwall) between it and the Internet).
Posted by: redwench
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It lets me know any time anything edits the hosts file, puts itself in any startup or run key (in the registry) and is just very thurough.
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spybot will do that if you allow it. you sure youre running the latest version?
Posted by: thtadthtshldntb
Spybot does not enable the teatimer program, which does all that antispy does and more unless you tell it to.
I use, Spybot, with both memory resident programs turned on, Spywareblaster, MS Antispy and Adaware plus AVG. This all works fine.
Posted by: gam3r
I just download the microsoft spyware tool, thanks for posting the link compukeith.
Posted by: compukeith
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spybot will do that if you allow it. you sure youre running the latest version?
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Actually no - I'm not running the latest version. Actually, I don't have it installed. I strictly go with MSAS, McAfee Ent, and ZoneAlarm. No other spyware/adware removal programs are going on my computer.
Posted by: thtadthtshldntb
Do you like manually unisntalled everything (and that is many things) that you apps do not cover?
Cause that's the territory that you are in now.
Posted by: matt.modica
sometimes programs on your computer cause pop-ups
Posted by: thtadthtshldntb
Running with the limited protection (compukeith) is using will lead to the presence of spyware. Finding more stuff is not enough. Each of those programs finds some small amount of things and protects against somethings that the others do not.
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