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"Damn.Fecking.Popups"

I am at the end of my tether with stupid pop-ups I keep getting. I started getting them when I installed 'Win MX' (A downloader/fileshare like KaZaA). However when I realised it was making my computer a breeding ground for popups, I uninstalled it. I still get the bloody popups though and it is doing my head in. Whenever I go onto msn I get grey adverts which are usually links to porn sites only they are in grey pop-up boxes. They aren't from going on websites, just msn (may or may not be related to Win MX).

Also whenever I search in google, I get the results from several other search engines as popups. I ALSO get popups from GAIN advertising service. I uninstalled GAIN from my computer yet I still get the damn adverts. I am really irritated and on the brink of tearing my hair out and clucking like a mad turkey.

Help me, please.

Indeed, that was the kinda stuff that was happening for me, but thankfully on my own pc in my room, so no one else except my 7 year old brother uses it...

A while backt as the bargain hunter that I was, I decided to look for a website where I could download the full version of Hitman using google. It provided only one website...which ended up being a porn site.

It said I had to join to be able to download any of their full games, in which I obviously declined. But then I started getting an overflow of naked women popping up everywhere, like non-stop. I panicked in case I got spotted and quickly turned the computer off. Next thing I knew, my Dad was calling me asking what this software was that I apparently installed, which had a picture of a women fondling with her bits. I explained to him what happened, and directed the blame to my older brother.

Webwasher.

I was on this MP3 site a few hours ago, and i had about 20 porno site popups come up, and they were not just normal dirty pice, you could see every thing, and my brother was playing on the xbox behinde me, and he is only 7...
So i tryed to close all the windows, but every time that i closed one window, it seems as if another 2 or 3 opened...
twas a scary experience, I promise i didnt put any in my fravourits *lies*...

Kyz22 wrote:
> Woah I had more spyware than the USA Government!
>
> Once I have got rid will it keep coming back or will it stay away for
> good until I install some more crap?

Once you remove it with Adaware, it should be gone for good.

Woah I had more spyware than the USA Government!

Once I have got rid will it keep coming back or will it stay away for good until I install some more crap?

Kyz22 wrote:
> I take it you have had the same problem?

No. I just have a lot of stupid friends who haven't heard of Kazaa lite, and insist on installing Kazaa.

El Blokey wrote:
> :-D
>
> Try using Opera as your internet explorer, it has a built in pop up
> stopper.

Never heard of Opera - Do I need to download it and bugga around with my IE settings?

Tóm wrote:
> http://www.lavasoftusa.com/support/download/
>
> Download.
> Scan computer.
> Be happy.

Cheers mate I am downloading it now :-)

I take it you have had the same problem?

:-D

Try using Opera as your internet explorer, it has a built in pop up stopper.