The cool 'freebie' is AdAware by Lavasoft. It's highly innocuous
and does it's thing quite well. Download version 6, update the
definition files, and run it. Then toss everything that it moves
to quarantine.

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"WideGlide" wrote in message t...
I had visited some website that apparently sent a cookie or some type of
malicious program onto my hard drive, so now I have these damn pop-up ads
opening all the time. There is something on my computer that is doing this.
(PC) I went into Windows and deleted all the recent cookies, also deleted
all temporary internet files, etc. I looked around for any exe files that I
did not recognize, but did not see any (then again I may have missed it).
There was a few exe files that DID get dropped on my desktop but I had
deleted them right away. I can't get rid of this thing, it's REALLY
annoying. Boy, if I ever got my hands on anyone who is responsible for this
type of stuff. And then this morning I get a spam email saying "you may
have a pop-up ad virus on your computer, buy our software to make it go
away". Anyway, does anyone have any ideas on how I might go about finding
and getting rid of this annoying problem? The pop up ads only start after I
have opened Explorer. This "virus" had also changed my home page, but I
reset it. thanks.