Pop ups

mum1964

Please can somebody help me, have just had to close 52 pop up messages, I am not techie so have no idea what to do. This has only started happening since I got broadband (NTL). I have looked through 78 pages in this forum and I have not found the thread. Please accept my apologies for my inpatience.
regards
Mum1964
Ps this is my first thread

alanrowell

oh dear you have a very bad infection.

as you aren't techie I'd be finding someone who is who knows how to install & use the various anti-spyware/trojans/viruses programs

damski_2

to stop pop-ups

get pop up stopper free edition

easy to turn on and off get it from here

http://www.panicware.com/product_psfree.html

bbb_uk

Internet Explorer 6 with SP2 has pop-up blocker built-in and doesn't do that bad a job. Would save installing extra software, etc.

Browntoa

sometimes these pop-ups come from Windows Messenger, again Service pack 2 turns this off for you

if you want to upgrade to SP2 it is on the front of one of the computer mags this month , was also available in PC world for free at one point

May be worth downloading the free Microsoft Antispyware from

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=321CD7A2-6A57-4C57-A8BD-DBF62EDA9671&displaylang=en

about 16 mins max on dial up, about 1 min on broadband

Browntoa

the article on here you were looking for is in the FAQ's at the top of this page

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=3356

Mr_Proctalgia

You could trying using Firefox instead Explorer! It is a very good browser.