Every time i start up the internet tons and tons and tons and tons of f***ing popups fill my screen. I have to run spybot search and destroy everyday now and it doesnt help that much. :angry: could sombody please help me?
Try running lavasoft's ad-aware. It might not clear up your problem, but it can't hurt to try!
Second, check a listing of Windows startup progs like the one at http://www.sysinfo.org/startuplist.php and clear the ones listed as viruses from your registry. This is located in your windows folder and should be called regedit.exe. The startup progs should be under Windows/CurrentVersion/Run & RunOnce. Anything you find listed as a virus, delte it!
That's what I did for some pop-ups once. But my friend had the same pop-ups starting every time he went on IE. I got firefox for him and now it never happens.
If you're getting "Messenger" style popups you can disable this by going to: Start, Run, and typing "services.msc" - then scroll through the list to Messenger and choose properties. From here you can set its status to stopped and its startup properties to disabled.
lizard808uk posted on Apr 25 2004 at 10:11 AM said:
If you're getting "Messenger" style popups you can disable this by going to: Start, Run, and typing "services.msc" - then scroll through the list to Messenger and choose properties. From here you can set its status to stopped and its startup properties to disabled.