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How do you get rid of pop ups ?

Asked by kalamazooing (4points) May 27th, 2009

I have this one pop up that keeps saying you have 59 errors and than another window opens up saying the same thing !! Now I have a bigger pop up that is offering search engines I have never heard of !1

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archer's avatar

easiest question to answer possibly ever on fluther. use firefox with adblock plus

archer's avatar

i can’t remember the last time i saw an unwanted popup

dynamicduo's avatar

@archer has it right. Use Firefox and get the AdBlock Plus plugin for it. Both are free downloads.

Sometimes popups are caused by spyware installed, so I would also advise download Spybot Search and Distroy and making sure your system is clean by letting that run and delete the infected files it finds.

MrGV's avatar

I believe you have an adware on your computer

archer's avatar

spybot is good and i used to use it but i have since found that malwarebytes is significantly better

dynamicduo's avatar

Nothing beats running both of them, one after another. I used to run AdAware after Spybot searches and AdAware would find a few that Spybot did not.

Ivan's avatar

Use Linux.

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