When ever I connect t the internet I now gt unwanted pop ups at random intervals, I have run the antivirus, spybot and Ad-aware but none of these seem to be able to fix the problem? Any ideas?

What browser are you using?

what do you mean by what browser? I have the internet explorer which I use to access the web if that helps?

REF - that could be one of the problems. Get a copy of Firefox from here (http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/). It will stop unwanted popups and is safer than IE.

Another thing, if you're working on Windows XP, make sure you have service packs 1 and 2 installed.

As an alternative, REF, as you sound as if you might be a 'beginner' at this computing/browsing thing, you can go to the Google site and download a pop-up blocker which allows you to select whether to allow them or not. Might be simpler for you than installing and learning a new browser?

Google is just one of many options you will find if you search for 'popup blocker'.

Just to nail this down a bit, are the popups advert related, or do they say stuff like "you are infected with blah blah, purchase...." or redirects to a site you didn't expect to go to?

I'm with Mr Markjoy, since Ref said "I now get unwanted popups". There's something there that needs fixing, and installing more stuff isn't the way to go.

http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=135966 solved all my problems.

Yep, a useful tool in the battle for good security.
If there's already a trojan, or other nasty on board, need to sort that first, though.
I've been using the mvps hosts file for a while, only downside is that sometimes a not-so-dangerous or not-so-bad site gets blocked.