I have serious Pop-up problems! Can anyone help?

Question

I use Firefox 3 and keep getting multiple (at least 1 a minute) pop ups from various odd websites and i won't stop. All these pop ups are coming for Internet Explorer when I'm not even using it. I've had this problem for about 1 week and have run at least 5 scans and nothing has helped. I'm pretty sure its a trojan... so basically all I'm saying is does anyone know of a good free solution?

Answer 1

there are many free programs u can download to scan for trojans. i would suggest AVG, Ad-Aware, or Spybot. any of these r good and will find anything in there. best of all, they are free and easy to use!

Answer 2

You most likely have Virtumonde on your computer. If you don't have Ad ware installed go get it!! download the free version,it will detect and remove it.Superantispy and Spybot also. Run your scans in Safe mode.....

Hey, pappy....gonna try what you just suggested with the cookie set-up...makes sense to me..the less Ad's .the better.

Answer 3

This is a 3rd party cookie issue.  Turn off non-requested cookies.

In your browser, go to 'Tools' > Internet Options >

Privacy > Advanced: here check 'Override...' 'Allow session...' 'Allow 1st Party...' and 'BLOCK 3RD PARTY COOKIES'

That will end the madness.