The Google toolbar includes a pretty good popup stopper, too. I hardly ever see them anymore.
There's a number of Trojan Horse viruses out there that display that kind of activity - endless pop-ups. You may have acquired one of those. Some get by the Windows-based anti-virus programs with relative ease. Some AV programs (Avast! in particular, which is a free AV program) let you run a "boot time scan" that can be pretty effective against those Trojans that are dormant until the OS finishes loading. There's another one (sav32cli - also free, but a little more difficult to operate) that runs in the "Safe Mode with Command Prompt" environment of Windows XP and really does a good job of rooting them out. The latter program requires a modest command inputting ability.
Most Trojans and other viruses copy themselves to the System Restore folder, so turning that feature off before running a boot time scan or command prompt-based AV scan is a must.
http://www.avast.com/
http://www.sophos.com/support/disinfection/pedis.html
Last edited on 20 July 2008 06:33 PM by SCSlim
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