Hi all

In the last few days I have been having adverts popping up in small windows every few pages I visit on Internet Explorer.

Its really annoying having to close them all the time and I think this sort of advertisements popping up is adware?

I have full virus and firewall protection but have never had any anti-spyware or adware - can anyone recommend me some thing to download or a package to buy?

Otherwise I'n just going to system restore :rolleyes: :}

Personally, I would suggest you dump IE and use Firefox with the Adblock addon.

Adaware and Spybot and Ewido.

All free - others may be listed in the sticky at the top of the forum.

SD

I have full virus and firewall protection but have never had any anti-spyware or adware - can anyone recommend me some thing to download or a package to buy?
You need at least two free products, Ad Aware (http://www.lavasoft.de/software/adaware/) and Spybot (http://www.spybot.info/). This sticky (http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.php?t=146397)at the top of the forum contains a handy guide to eliminating your problem :)
BD

All due respect, gents, but Adaware & Spybot are not going to stop popups which is what I read as the problem.

Firefox or Opera should handle that.

Sorry Frostbite, but yes They do,
or at least they eliminate the programmes that generate them.

Not wishing to labour the point (especially as the original poster hasn't returned), but I understood popups to be mainly generated by the website being visited.

There is a 'tick box' in IE Tools/Options/Privacy you could try.

Not wishing to labour the point (especially as the original poster hasn't returned), but I understood popups to be mainly generated by the website being visited.As it's a new symptom being reported, it sounds more likely than he's been recently infected by some adware/spyware that's causing the popups. Some of them do that.

Sorry Frostbite, I was referring to the popups for "A partner in love" or "do you have erection problems" type. Not the ones from the website sponsors.