Author Topic: Wacky pop up prob (Read 265 times)

GtoRA2 · « **on:** June 09, 2003, 11:57:53 PM »

Guys
I know this prolly has been asked a bunch, but here goes

Fresh install of XP pro and no browser open, I open any game including AH and about 10 minutes later I will get dumped to the desktop and low and behold 10 or more IE windows are open with all kinds of popups... I have gone to MS config and killed everything.

I think I killed messager, this is driving me nutty.

Any ideas?

SunKing · « **Reply #1 on:** June 10, 2003, 12:41:39 AM »

try this.

Shut down "Messenger" in Start->Settings->Control Panel-Administrative Tools->Services

hyena426 · « **Reply #2 on:** June 10, 2003, 02:39:26 AM »

hey gto,,whats going on with pop ups happend with my freinds computer too,,everytime in a game for a few min having fun,,and these stupid pop ups would happen always in the middle of his game,,,,,you got files in your computer loaded from online that are spying on you right now,,and what you do online,.,,,,,you need a spywear detector and remover,,,think you can get them at globalgeek dot com,,,or spybot.com,,,there are free ones,,my buddies computer was having the same proublem,,till we used spybot and it removed all the popups,,and so far he has been runing with out any more troubles,,,,he has windows xp too

spywear detectors will fix your problems,,,,went threw the same thing you are allready,,lol

Skuzzy · « **Reply #3 on:** June 10, 2003, 07:15:43 AM »

What SunKing posted will solve the problem, as far as the pops getting started.

Once planted though, you need to remove them with something like Adaware.

So disable Messenger, run Adaware and your problem should be solved.