fmarmor

All of a sudden, I am getting continuous advertising popups and have not been
able to stop them. I have Verizon's security program which should be
blocking these popups but it isn't. I need help. I can't anything, even
read an email, before a popup appears

Mark Fitzpatrick

Verizon's security program may not be up to the task. Are you getting popups
all over the place, even on web sites that normally don't have them? It
could be you're already infected with adware. Start by turning off any extra
toolbars you may have installed in IE by going to the View | Toolbars and
unchecking all but the standard IE ones (that includes turning off things
like the Google and Yahoo toolbars as well since they're not standard). What
you'll need to do is find an application that can scan and remove adware.
You may want to download several adware removers as each one may find a
different set of adware programs running on your machine. I've used both
AdAware (http://www.lavasoftusa.com/) and SpyBot Search and Destroy
(http://www.spybot.info/en/download/index.html). Both of these were
recommended to me and are still pretty much the kings out there. If you have
Microsoft's Windows Defender installed, you may also want to ensure it's
been updated to the latest definitions and use that to scan your system as
well.



Hope this helps,
Mark Fitzpatrick
Microsoft MVP - Expression

"fmarmor" <fmarmor@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:0706AA80-EDCF-48D2-8609-763671E09586@microsoft.com...
> All of a sudden, I am getting continuous advertising popups and have not
> been
> able to stop them. I have Verizon's security program which should be
> blocking these popups but it isn't. I need help. I can't anything, even
> read an email, before a popup appears

Dell Techie

1. Run Deckard's System Scanner (DSS)
http://securitynewsfromthenet.blogsp...anner-dss.html

2. Run the vundo and combo fix
http://securitynewsfromthenet.blogsp...combo-fix.html

3. Run Malwarebytes Anti-Malware
http://securitynewsfromthenet.blogsp...lware-105.html

4. Run the anti spyware removal programs spybot
http://securitynewsfromthenet.blogsp...yware-and.html

5 Run Superantispyware
http://securitynewsfromthenet.blogsp...tion-free.html

6. Run a complete scan with free curing utility Dr.Web CureIt!
http://securitynewsfromthenet.blogsp...eb-cureit.html

"fmarmor" wrote:

> All of a sudden, I am getting continuous advertising popups and have not been
> able to stop them. I have Verizon's security program which should be
> blocking these popups but it isn't. I need help. I can't anything, even
> read an email, before a popup appears