How to block IE popups???? HELP!!!

poohandwendy

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Hi all, I have Windows XP Pro and I am having tons of problems with IE popups wreaking havoc on my internet experience!

I am running the aol popup blocker...but I keep getting IE popups...I am totally PC illiterate...so if you have any advice, speak slowly and like you are talking to a 5th grader... LOL

TIA!!!!
 
DH just had to fix mine because I kept getting porn pop-ups!

he works on compuers all day and he says now, the new pop-ups are caused by Spyware!

I was all over my computer too! I am really sorry I dont know how to fix it! But it took him about an hour and a half to fix mine.
 
Ok DH just said that to block pop-ups you need to download or buy a popup blocker software.

However, be careful because some of the pop-up blockers are spyware!
 
I did a search today for the same thing and downloaded Popswatter. It was a quick download (on DSL anyway) and installed itself. It also came with some cool smilies and cursors. It claims that it is not spywear, who knows though, but it has worked good so far. Those full page popups were jamming my computer and causing it to seize up so that I had to reboot.
 

Hmmmmmmmm, maybe that is why when I typed in "bedspreads" (while looking for new bed linens, of course), now I keep getting porn sites popping up. :faint:
 
PAW,
If I were you I would PM Dan. He has so many links to free clean ups for your computer.:wave2:
 
Originally posted by msdznyduck
Hmmmmmmmm, maybe that is why when I typed in "bedspreads" (while looking for new bed linens, of course), now I keep getting porn sites popping up. :faint:


I typed in Stepford's Wives looking to what someone posted abotu another on the picture thread. All that I got for the next week was porn. I fianlly just had to ask what it was!!
 
Thanks guys, I am gonna get right on it....I knew I could count on the nice people on the DIS!!!
 
Do what Dan said. I have done the same and I now have very few pop-ups and the naked ones are gone, thank goodness! If you search on the Internet, you will inevitably end up with some type of spyware/adware on your machine. The only way to avoid it is to not surf...so download and install those programs people!
 














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