Block unwanted popups?
I have a terrible problem. Some spyware has got into my computer. Inspite of putting google pop up blocker on high, pop ups still come on.
One pop up is on online gambling, another popup is a site called pcturbo.com which keeps interfering with any page that I am looking at, another is on window optimisation or some such thing. I am using Internet explorer.
I tried cleaning my PC with CCleaner and run adaware also regularly. But both are not effective. Since my mcfee expired I downloaded AVG antivirus about a week back. I am not sure if these pop ups came along with that.
Please let me know how I can block these irritating pop ups. Thanks in advance for your help.
Regards
Jane
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Your PC is infected with adware. Use these scans to remove it. Both are free and safe to use.
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hello friend its easy to block unwanted popups if u are using winxpSP2 an pre installed popup blocker is present and u dont need any other if not search for popup blocker or simply download yahoo toolbar or use firefox as ur browse bye
Click On Tools The click on pop-up blocker and then click on turn off pop up blocker.. if you have google pop up blocker from the google toolbar then one Left click on Blocked Which is in google toolbar