OT: Need help with evil pop ups

[admin]

Ok, computer nerds, my computer genius son isn’t here, nor my boyfriend. So I would welcome some help if you wanna give it. I use Internet Explorer for my browser and I think I accidently downloaded some spyware or something that’s letting popups invade my computer. I’ll open the browser and another window will pop in with a stupid ad followed by this evil small box at the bottom right hand corner of the computer screen. It comes up slowly and goes back down. It reads, “ad served by advanceware”.

[Anonymous]

Actually the dubious window that rises slowly says, “Ad served by advancedenhancer”.

[Anonymous]

Actually the dubious window that rises slowly says, “Ad served by advancedenhancer”.

[Anonymous]

Actually the dubious window that rises slowly says, “Ad served by advancedenhancer”.

[Anonymous]

Actually the dubious window that rises slowly says, “Ad served by advancedenhancer”.

[Anonymous]

Actually the dubious window that rises slowly says, “Ad served by advancedenhancer”.

[Anonymous]

you could try firefox which is decent at blocking pop ups.

However another decent way to get rid of a lot of stuff is to use a host file.

On XP go to C:WINDOWSSYSTEM32DRIVERSETC

open hosts with notepad

add all the text here to the bottom:

http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.txt

Save.

Long story short, you are giving your computer a dead end route to sites that service ads. However, the list of sites changes daily, but this is list of the mjor ones. You will also see a lot advertisements disappear when you browse. You’ll just see a can’t connect error.

Is this perfect no, but much better, and will save bandwidth too.

More geeky info here:
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm
http://everythingisnt.com/faq.html
http://blog.eches.net/tips/how-to-block-popup-without-using-any-software/
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/Popups.htm

[Anonymous]

you could try firefox which is decent at blocking pop ups.

However another decent way to get rid of a lot of stuff is to use a host file.

On XP go to C:WINDOWSSYSTEM32DRIVERSETC

open hosts with notepad

add all the text here to the bottom:

http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.txt

Save.

Long story short, you are giving your computer a dead end route to sites that service ads. However, the list of sites changes daily, but this is list of the mjor ones. You will also see a lot advertisements disappear when you browse. You’ll just see a can’t connect error.

Is this perfect no, but much better, and will save bandwidth too.

More geeky info here:
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm
http://everythingisnt.com/faq.html
http://blog.eches.net/tips/how-to-block-popup-without-using-any-software/
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/Popups.htm

[Anonymous]

you could try firefox which is decent at blocking pop ups.

However another decent way to get rid of a lot of stuff is to use a host file.

On XP go to C:WINDOWSSYSTEM32DRIVERSETC

open hosts with notepad

add all the text here to the bottom:

http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.txt

Save.

Long story short, you are giving your computer a dead end route to sites that service ads. However, the list of sites changes daily, but this is list of the mjor ones. You will also see a lot advertisements disappear when you browse. You’ll just see a can’t connect error.

Is this perfect no, but much better, and will save bandwidth too.

More geeky info here:
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm
http://everythingisnt.com/faq.html
http://blog.eches.net/tips/how-to-block-popup-without-using-any-software/
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/Popups.htm

[Anonymous]

you could try firefox which is decent at blocking pop ups.

However another decent way to get rid of a lot of stuff is to use a host file.

On XP go to C:WINDOWSSYSTEM32DRIVERSETC

open hosts with notepad

add all the text here to the bottom:

http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.txt

Save.

Long story short, you are giving your computer a dead end route to sites that service ads. However, the list of sites changes daily, but this is list of the mjor ones. You will also see a lot advertisements disappear when you browse. You’ll just see a can’t connect error.

Is this perfect no, but much better, and will save bandwidth too.

More geeky info here:
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm
http://everythingisnt.com/faq.html
http://blog.eches.net/tips/how-to-block-popup-without-using-any-software/
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/Popups.htm

[Anonymous]

you could try firefox which is decent at blocking pop ups.

However another decent way to get rid of a lot of stuff is to use a host file.

On XP go to C:WINDOWSSYSTEM32DRIVERSETC

open hosts with notepad

add all the text here to the bottom:

http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.txt

Save.

Long story short, you are giving your computer a dead end route to sites that service ads. However, the list of sites changes daily, but this is list of the mjor ones. You will also see a lot advertisements disappear when you browse. You’ll just see a can’t connect error.

Is this perfect no, but much better, and will save bandwidth too.

More geeky info here:
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm
http://everythingisnt.com/faq.html
http://blog.eches.net/tips/how-to-block-popup-without-using-any-software/
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/Popups.htm

[ucodegen]

First question would be:

Did you install a ‘browsing speedup’ or ‘browsing enhancer’ program. This is one of the ways that “advancedenhancer” gets onto your system. Do you have an Antivirus product on your machine, and if so, what is it? See

http://vil.mcafeesecurity.com/vil/content/v_144520.htm

You might want to try the free version of LavaSoft Ad-Aware and try cleaning your system.

http://lavasoft.com/home.php

Now for safer browsing practices:
**If you just have to use Internet Explorer..
1. On the general internet zone and untrusted sites, disable ActiveX (activeX controls on others – disable all options for it, even signed.). Only allow ActiveX for sites that you trust 100% with your machine. ActiveX can be used by the webserver to do almost anything to your machine. There was a website that showed how bad ActiveX is by using a signed ActiveX component to shut your machine off when you browsed a specific link. ActiveX can also be used to alter just about any configuration on the machine or install software without your knowledge.
2. Disable Java and possibly JavaScript(active scripting on sites in the Untrusted region. Personally I would also disable Java on the general internet sites too..

It is better not to use Internet Explorer. As mentioned earlier, use Firefox. Also add in the NoScript plugin for Firefox.

There are more settings on IE that should help lock it down, but the 3 above should help a lot. Unfortunately a lot of websites like to use ActiveX.. they shouldn’t.

[ucodegen]

First question would be:

Did you install a ‘browsing speedup’ or ‘browsing enhancer’ program. This is one of the ways that “advancedenhancer” gets onto your system. Do you have an Antivirus product on your machine, and if so, what is it? See

http://vil.mcafeesecurity.com/vil/content/v_144520.htm

You might want to try the free version of LavaSoft Ad-Aware and try cleaning your system.

http://lavasoft.com/home.php

Now for safer browsing practices:
**If you just have to use Internet Explorer..
1. On the general internet zone and untrusted sites, disable ActiveX (activeX controls on others – disable all options for it, even signed.). Only allow ActiveX for sites that you trust 100% with your machine. ActiveX can be used by the webserver to do almost anything to your machine. There was a website that showed how bad ActiveX is by using a signed ActiveX component to shut your machine off when you browsed a specific link. ActiveX can also be used to alter just about any configuration on the machine or install software without your knowledge.
2. Disable Java and possibly JavaScript(active scripting on sites in the Untrusted region. Personally I would also disable Java on the general internet sites too..

It is better not to use Internet Explorer. As mentioned earlier, use Firefox. Also add in the NoScript plugin for Firefox.

There are more settings on IE that should help lock it down, but the 3 above should help a lot. Unfortunately a lot of websites like to use ActiveX.. they shouldn’t.

[ucodegen]

First question would be:

Did you install a ‘browsing speedup’ or ‘browsing enhancer’ program. This is one of the ways that “advancedenhancer” gets onto your system. Do you have an Antivirus product on your machine, and if so, what is it? See

http://vil.mcafeesecurity.com/vil/content/v_144520.htm

You might want to try the free version of LavaSoft Ad-Aware and try cleaning your system.

http://lavasoft.com/home.php

Now for safer browsing practices:
**If you just have to use Internet Explorer..
1. On the general internet zone and untrusted sites, disable ActiveX (activeX controls on others – disable all options for it, even signed.). Only allow ActiveX for sites that you trust 100% with your machine. ActiveX can be used by the webserver to do almost anything to your machine. There was a website that showed how bad ActiveX is by using a signed ActiveX component to shut your machine off when you browsed a specific link. ActiveX can also be used to alter just about any configuration on the machine or install software without your knowledge.
2. Disable Java and possibly JavaScript(active scripting on sites in the Untrusted region. Personally I would also disable Java on the general internet sites too..

It is better not to use Internet Explorer. As mentioned earlier, use Firefox. Also add in the NoScript plugin for Firefox.

There are more settings on IE that should help lock it down, but the 3 above should help a lot. Unfortunately a lot of websites like to use ActiveX.. they shouldn’t.

[ucodegen]

First question would be:

Did you install a ‘browsing speedup’ or ‘browsing enhancer’ program. This is one of the ways that “advancedenhancer” gets onto your system. Do you have an Antivirus product on your machine, and if so, what is it? See

http://vil.mcafeesecurity.com/vil/content/v_144520.htm

You might want to try the free version of LavaSoft Ad-Aware and try cleaning your system.

http://lavasoft.com/home.php

Now for safer browsing practices:
**If you just have to use Internet Explorer..
1. On the general internet zone and untrusted sites, disable ActiveX (activeX controls on others – disable all options for it, even signed.). Only allow ActiveX for sites that you trust 100% with your machine. ActiveX can be used by the webserver to do almost anything to your machine. There was a website that showed how bad ActiveX is by using a signed ActiveX component to shut your machine off when you browsed a specific link. ActiveX can also be used to alter just about any configuration on the machine or install software without your knowledge.
2. Disable Java and possibly JavaScript(active scripting on sites in the Untrusted region. Personally I would also disable Java on the general internet sites too..

It is better not to use Internet Explorer. As mentioned earlier, use Firefox. Also add in the NoScript plugin for Firefox.

There are more settings on IE that should help lock it down, but the 3 above should help a lot. Unfortunately a lot of websites like to use ActiveX.. they shouldn’t.

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