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Pop Up Mania...HELP!

Enchantress
Member Empyrean

since 2001-08-14

Posts 35113
Canada eh.

0 posted 2004-07-08 09:17 PM

Help!!

Anyone have more ideas?

Pop ups have taken over my computer!
Not just pop ups, but my IE comes up by itself showing 'ad pages' or 'a search bar' for my home page.

Ad pages also take over when I am trying to post in pip...like someone switching channels!!!

I can reboot...walk away and come back a half hour later and my systems resources are dangerously low.

I have tried all the links Ron suggested in another thread listed below.

http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/
http://www.safer-networking.org/ http://housecall.trendmicro.com/

Can anyone help further?
I feel as though I have lost control of my computer.
Thanks,
Nancy

Jeffrey Carter

Member Elite

since 2000-04-08

Posts 2367
State of constant confusion!

1 posted 2004-07-10 10:42 PM

What operating system are you running? If it is Windows XP I may be able to help a little...

Click Start > Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Services

Scroll down to Messenger in the list and right click it then click Properties from the pop-up menu. Under Start up type select DISABLE then click OK or Apply. You may need to restart your computer after doing so.

Here is a link to a list of other Services that you may be able to safely disable on your computer ... http://www.zdnet.com.au/insight/0,39023731,20280986,00.htm

Good luck. Hope this helps!

Fagin
Member

since 2004-05-07

Posts 126
Ca

2 posted 2004-07-16 08:49 PM

The links Ron has are the same I use...have you installed anyting new? you may be able to do a rollback and find out

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