more unwanted popups

[digbythebiggestdogintheworld]

tried an anti-popup for couple of days but it hasn't worked (thanks for the suggestion anyway, mat)

i keep receiving full page popups, and worryingly some of them are pretending to be windows security alerts

anyone got any suggestions as to how i can stop them?

 

[quiet_riot]

Firefox

 

[Anonymous]

As riot says. Can't beat Firefox for the extra security.

 

[mat]

As riot says. Can't beat Firefox for the extra security.

Thirded.

IE seems to attact shite.

 

[Doctor Congo]

better to get rid of the cause of the pop ups than to block/hide them, this might help:

http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/

 

[digbythebiggestdogintheworld]

thanks for the tips y'all

i already have spybot (but ta anyway doc)

firefox appears to be a replacement for internet explorer, is that what it' supposed to be, and if so, what does it do?

any further info greatly appreciated

 

[mat]

firefox is an alternative browser which knocks the shit out of IE.

It also has the wonderful stumble upon addon where you'll find some wierd and wonderfully random internet shit.

I also use opera from time to time which is very simple to use.
http://www.opera.com/

 

[the citizens]

tried an anti-popup for couple of days but it hasn't worked (thanks for the suggestion anyway, mat)

i keep receiving full page popups, and worryingly some of them are pretending to be windows security alerts

anyone got any suggestions as to how i can stop them?

i had the same problem , a friend told me to use windows defender from microsoft since then ive not had one pop up .

http://www.microsoft.com/athome/securit ... fault.mspx

 

[digbythebiggestdogintheworld]

had the same problem , a friend told me to use windows defender from microsoft since then ive not had one pop up .

http://www.microsoft.com/athome/securit ... fault.mspx

already have windows defender but thanks fo the tip anyway

 

[Doctor Congo]

had the same problem , a friend told me to use windows defender from microsoft since then ive not had one pop up .

http://www.microsoft.com/athome/securit ... fault.mspx

already have windows defender but thanks fo the tip anyway

Another possibility is goto add/remove programs in control panel and check if there are any 'free search tools' installed or any other unwanted shit.