Dial up The Scourge of the tight assed

[RedX]

After spending the last year or so learnig how to do stuff on computers (like speling) I have got to the stage where non stop anoying crap keeps coming up on my screen causing me to stop typing(2 words per minute) and to continue closing damn advertisement windows and i thought someone elses name on my jocks was bad

[raz0r$harP.UK]

Get a antivirus program if you don't have it, and also go to http://www.lavasoftusa.com and download Ad-Aware..it'll look for spyware, the little annoying things on your PC that cause all those popups to come up.

Oh, and stop surfing porn sites too

[Revhead]

You'll be amazed at the amount of shit that it'll pick up.

[Craved]

try a pop-up stopper or firewall if that doesn't fix it up! more than likely spyware though!

[Abo Bob]

Google toolbar has a built in pop up stopper.

[CerealKiller]

Google toolbar has a built in pop up stopper.

:werd:

works quite well too.

oh and stop looking at porn.

[cereal]

never stop looking at the pr0n!!! it's your personal right!!! hahaha

[Z32 Airlines]

Windows XP SP2 :-) Built in pop up blocker :-)

[Duncan]

chris, you know you spelt spelling incorrectly don't you?

[Aurora]

I had some success with Spybot Search and Destroy.

I now run no blocking software, and just watch out what sites i visit.

Also i run a hardware firewall...so that's saved me some grief.

[Tosh]

chris, you know you spelt spelling incorrectly don't you?

DON'T F@$*#%G START!!!!!

[morlock]

Google Toolbar has it's own spyware. Use adaware....it's free for personal use.

[BigDatto]

Bro if you're using dialup do yourself a favour & ditch Microshite Internet Trawler for Opera.

It's a much faster browser with awesome integrated features like... popup control !! no third party software required. It is genuinely faster, I will never go back to IE.

[funkymonkey]

I use the google toolbar, and they're courteous enough to let you know that you can take part in a statistic gathering exercise. My firewall makes sure the google module (a DLL file) does not send recieve any data of its own, instead only directs IE to go to websites. So far it worked well.

I run Adaware every month or so, usually picks up a few cookies n shit.

Oh an I also used to use this MASSIVE hosts file that mapped all the malicious URL's and ad URLs like adrotator etc to localhost, so none of em ever loaded up. Never tried to use it since migrating to WinXP though.

[Astroboy]

as someone mentioned

ada-ware should fix most of the crap

[B-Man]

Spelling is important

Tosh - you suck !

[red900ss]

Tori Spelling isn't....

[cereal]

her cans are though

[Blitz]

Im also using Mozilla Firefox for browsing - some excellent features over IE including pop up stopping ability

[shaolin]

Some good stuff to have on your machine....

Ad-Ware and spyware:

Ad-Aware 6 - lavasoft as many people have mentioned.

CWshredder - This is good if your browser has been hijacked.

Hijack This - yes it is the name fo the program which gives you a log of some crap you may not want on your machine and alows you to remove it, but you would want to know what you are doing before you go deleting all this so if you don't there are plenty of forums out there where you can post this up and get help.

SpyBot-search and destroy - I like this program .

I am also using sygate personall firewall Pro at the moment and it seems alright too.