unwanted pop ups

[REF]

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?

[Jet II]

What browser are you using?

[REF]

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

[BombayDuck]

REF - that could be one of the problems. Get a copy of Firefox from here. 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.

[BOAC]

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'.

[Tarq57]

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?

[Bushfiva]

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.

[under_exposed]

http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthr...hreadid=135966 solved all my problems.

[Tarq57]

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.