yes im tired of all the pop ups HELP!!

[CrapshoT]

im absoloutly sick of these pop up adds its always the same bloody pop up as well
message from byebyeadds are you tired of the pop ups that fill your screen all the pop ups this is the only bloody pop up i get and i get it every 10 mins its so annoying especially when im in game i can see it coming up on the screen so i have to come out of my game to remove it
please help how can i stop this getting thru
i have norton internet 2003 installed but im clueless when it comes down to using software so if you could make it easy for me to understand lol
thanks in advance

[Moby-Dick]

right click on my computer , then select manage.
expand "services & applications" then select services.
highlight the messenger service & stop it. Then go to its properites and set it startup type to "manual".

This shoudl stop the popups.

[joshwa]

if you're on the internet when this happens - get the googler toolbar (advanced version) and turn on pop-up blocking in the options.

if you're on windows 2000 or XP and get these "message to ip address from..." then go to control panel / administrator / services and disable the messenger service. this will block it.

alternatively try ad-aware in case there's stuff like GAIN / Gator etc on your pc.

[CrapshoT]

thanks guys just tried Moby-Dick's solution
ill give it time to see if i get any get thru
this is much appreciated as my gaming was starting to be badly affected
\m/-_-\m/
cheers guys looks like its stopped no pop ups for 2 1/2 hours yeeehhhaaaa

[PHTC]

I tried to get rid of spyware on my machine usind Ad Aware or something like that, found loads and when i told the program to sort it out, whenever i booted my machine up it came up with a ton of errors,

So be careful!

[Enverex]

2 Programs to use for scanning for Spyware-
Adaware - http://atomnet.co.uk/?p=programs&search=adaware
SpyBot S&D - http://atomnet.co.uk/?p=programs&search=spybot

Those are always worth having around, just in case. Spybot takes longer, but is more thourough.

To stop internet popups use a browser such as Mozilla or Firebird. You won't be able to live with IE after you have used Firebirds tabbed browsing.

But yeah, first thing to do when you install Windows is dissable the Messenger service. Nothing but trouble.

NS

[eldren]

Originally posted by NightShade737
To stop internet popups use a browser such as Mozilla or Firebird. You won't be able to live with IE after you have used Firebirds tabbed browsing.

Mozilla also has tabbed browsing. Now why doesn't Microsoft go assimilate that, eh?

[megah0]

crazybrowser - once you have disabled messenger, it has mozilla tabbed interface and an inbuillt pop up stopper. magic

[Grolschkid]

Cheers Moby, just applied your little bit of advise also (damn bloody pop up crap )

[Merlin]

the google toolbar popup stopper is great, it just works. And you get a google search box in the top left corner all the time.

[Trickle]

Originally posted by NightShade737
To stop internet popups use a browser such as Mozilla or Firebird. You won't be able to live with IE after you have used Firebirds tabbed browsing.

Agreed. I'ed tried 3 diferent pop up stoppers with IE last year and whilst they all worked to an extent - you tended to need to use a hotkey for links they inevitably thought were popups all the time.

When you use mozilla, you dont actually realise that it has a built in pop up stopper. Probably the same with most built in browser ones such as the crazy one mentioned.

Using mozila is a bit like using the net 3+ years ago (but with tabs). Popups just dont exist, pages load at lightning speed, offline browsing is about as good as IE4 and you get a fair few 'broken' web pages that dont work properly