I am sick of relentless advirtising. Everywhere you look, your computer, tv radio, phone, And now they have "bugs" you cant remove from your computer! You get slammed by an add as soon as you log on. Here's what we do.

Boycott any company that uses spam or popups to create a nuisance for the average american. Not only that, e-mail each company telling them about it, and if enough people do it, maybe these idiots will get the hint. I think it is time to hit them where it hurts. Anybody with me?

 

ALready one step ahead of you

 

Or you could just fix your CPU so you would never get popups. I have not had ONE popup in 2 months....HOw did I, the CPU illiterate do it?

SIMPLE

1) Adaware
2) Firefox

Clean your CPU up with adaware and then never let it get dirty again with FireFOX


IE5 IS THE CRAPPIEST PROGRAM EVER.







I promise NO popups.

 

Avant Broswer's internal pop-up blocker has caught everything for me.....nothing in 6mo

 

totally agree with you, although i have ie6
i get pop ups every 3 minutes are so. it SUCKS
and it has slowed down my comp to a hault :notnice:

 

Install program called ZoneAlarm and keep it on whenever your computer is on. That will stop the pop-ups.

Install program called Spybot - Search & Destroy. It will find any error on your computer and it will fix it.

Trust me on these 2. I used to have adaware on my Windows ME, and then recently a friend of mine installed Windows XP on my computer. He suggested ZoneAlarm and Spybot. Since then, I didn't have any pop-ups.

 

I have both of those and they work really well. ZoneAlarm came with my cable modem and I got Spybot from the IT people at work.

 

i have spybot and it hasnt done anything

 

People seem to be getting around the google toolbar now too

 

just get Ad-aware and spybot: S&D to catch the spyware on your pc that may be causing popups, and then go to www.panicware.com and download Pop-Up Stopper to end all web page popups. I havent had one in about 8 months with this setup.

 

Free Surfer MKII works well.

I only get 1-2 in a busy week of websurfing. (Only popups from thier own site... like webhosting popups)

 

sbc yahoo dsl popup blocker works great and it is free... well comes with the dsl i guess. I have been using yahoo mail for years because i can use it no matter who my isp is. It was nice though when i got the dsl my mail box went from 6mb to 75mb.

 

i left my comp on for 15 minutes, and when i came back i had 59 popo ups!
ive tried to download adaware, but my comp doesnt let me. for some reason i cant view two web pages at teh same time. sucks,because the adaware pops up on a different window.
im gonna do the whole system recovery thing

anyoe have tips on doing it?
thanks

 

i picked up a bug with windows AUTOMATIC UPDATES!!!!

i kept trying to fix my pc, at first my speed went down to 24k, i could only have 1 page open at a time,when i hit the back icon, id get an erer mes. saying that windows was shuting down.
an if i wanted to send a erer mes to ms, then i tryed to back up th pc an could not do the back up. an at last could not log on to the net. had to do the system recovery!

:bang: :bang: :bang:

thanks stella/everybody for the info.
did the zonealarm & ad-aware :dance:

 

Hey zeppelin, you have to manually run spybot if want it to clean your computer. Start it, update it and run it. Just installing it won't do anything. I run mine once a month or so.

 

Just as a note...
WinXP Service Pack 2 due out soon...will have a built in PopUp blocker, easier to manage Firewall etc

 

downloaded the adaware and it has stopped the pop ups. now i only get about one a day, instead of the 40 or so. thanks guys. still thinking of doind the system recovery.
HEY DAVE
when you recoverd the computer, did it delete all of the problems?
do you just pop in the disc and it starts automatically?
thanks in advanced

 

Even when ZoneAlarm is not on, I don't get any pop-ups.

I used to get a lot of pop-ups when I used Windows ME.

If any of you use any Windows other than XP Pro (ME, 2000 ...), get Windows XP Pro. Then all problems should stop.

 

its a 3 disk setup. wipes out everything on hard drive. just like a new pc.
i tryed to recover my pic's, had most on webshots. but lost all the early renders that vyto, chaz, topnotch an bm did. lost the trilogy vidieo also.

 

If you rebuild your machine, create 2 partitions. Then you'll have a C: and D: drive. Keep all of your data on D:.

That way, if you have to rebuild later, you can re-format C: and not lose all of your saved pictures, resumes etc.

Just a suggestion.