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grrr.....

any ideas?

about 40 seconds after i open internet explorer, i always get the same window popping up, which then changes to one of three other websites offering me [ironically], spam filters, underage girls, and penis enlargements. the same site then pops up every 10 minutes.

additionally, my home page has recently started to automatically revert to this website. i change it, but then open up explorer and its changed back.

ive gone through and deleted every cookie/internet file i could, and even gone through most of my c drive, sorted the newest files, and have deleted all the ones that i didnt recognise - but i STILL get this crap!

ever since this has happened, my computer speed has halved! not happy....

any ideas?

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I had a pop up problem. So I got a firewall, not zonealarm which has also been highly recommended to me. However, this still didn't solve my pop up problem, although the number of backdoor attacks detected was a bit of a surprise. Then I downloaded ad-aware and spybot, and totally agree with jesse on their effectiveness.

You can also get these programs, including mozilla, from those discs you get with some computer magazines.

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vanize, i think i've got one somewhere thats free. might be a bit big for emailing or whatever, but pm me if your interested, and i'll see what i can do

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oh well. i was going to buy a new computer anyway....



You don't need a new computer.
You just need to take care of the one you've got.
If you need more speed or power, won't upgrading some components do?

You seem to be awash with recommendations at the moment, so I'll keep it short. As well as Norton, Ad-aware and Spybot, I use Registry Healer which is very easy to use.

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