Steff Posted August 11, 2003 Share Posted August 11, 2003 Guys.. question.. All of a sudden I am getting these stupid popups again. The are grey boxes with ads in them. Not like those Orbitz ones. I got a Norton firewall a few months ago and they stopped.. now they are back. Like 50 of them and I have to close each and every one of them before I can do anything else. How can I stop them??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heads22 Posted August 11, 2003 Share Posted August 11, 2003 Guys.. question.. All of a sudden I am getting these stupid popups again. The are grey boxes with ads in them. Not like those Orbitz ones. I got a Norton firewall a few months ago and they stopped.. now they are back. Like 50 of them and I have to close each and every one of them before I can do anything else. How can I stop them??? There shouldn't be any... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steff Posted August 11, 2003 Author Share Posted August 11, 2003 Guys.. question.. All of a sudden I am getting these stupid popups again. The are grey boxes with ads in them. Not like those Orbitz ones. I got a Norton firewall a few months ago and they stopped.. now they are back. Like 50 of them and I have to close each and every one of them before I can do anything else. How can I stop them??? There shouldn't be any... It's not while I have this board up.. I am on from home all day. When I get home there are a ton of them. They aren't like normal ads. They are just a grey box. Very plain looking. I tried to copy one to post as an example but it wouldn't let me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chisoxfn Posted August 11, 2003 Share Posted August 11, 2003 Sounds like you have a pop up program in your computer. I'm assuming like an adaware type program would remove them. Since you have that Norton thing I'd think that would do it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capn12 Posted August 11, 2003 Share Posted August 11, 2003 Steff, look for EldoS Messenger Killer on download.com....I am assuming you are using Windows XP? It is a common problem with XP...had the same thing happening to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LDF Posted August 12, 2003 Share Posted August 12, 2003 Sounds like you have a pop up program in your computer. I'm assuming like an adaware type program would remove them. Since you have that Norton thing I'd think that would do it. norton will not do it, i think. go to the techtv or cnet and adware Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KipWellsFan Posted August 12, 2003 Share Posted August 12, 2003 Steff, I have this great program that deletes pop up programs that somehow get onto your computer. It's called Spybot-Search and Destroy, I believe you can download it from download.com. yup here's the link http://download.com.com/3000-2144-10194058...tml?tag=lst-0-1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CLR01 Posted August 12, 2003 Share Posted August 12, 2003 Guys.. question.. All of a sudden I am getting these stupid popups again. The are grey boxes with ads in them. Not like those Orbitz ones. I got a Norton firewall a few months ago and they stopped.. now they are back. Like 50 of them and I have to close each and every one of them before I can do anything else. How can I stop them??? LDF said: norton will not do it, i think. go to the techtv or cnet and adware Norton should do it. I have Norton Personal firewall and it blocks them all unless i leave it off. Steff make sure norton is not disabled and that the ad blocking feature is turned on. Also when was the last time you updated it? Sometimes it just needs to be updated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steff Posted August 12, 2003 Author Share Posted August 12, 2003 Fixed it.. AOL has a stopper, so I DL'd it.. and they stopped. Little s***s. They attack XP! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clujer420 Posted August 12, 2003 Share Posted August 12, 2003 Fixed it.. AOL has a stopper, so I DL'd it.. and they stopped. Little s***s. They attack XP! Ad Muncher I use this program, and it's very effective. It's $25 for lifetime tech support and updates, and I get a pop-up like twice a week. It's nice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steff Posted August 12, 2003 Author Share Posted August 12, 2003 Fixed it.. AOL has a stopper, so I DL'd it.. and they stopped. Little s***s. They attack XP! www.admuncher.com I use this program, and it's very effective. It's $25 for lifetime tech support and updates, and I get a pop-up like twice a week. It's nice. It must have worked cause I was getting them every few minutes and none since I DL'd it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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