Online Security

Try these:

Popups:
You might have been infected with some sort of tracking cookie that is causing you to get Popups.

Spy ware:
You might have clicked YES to something while on a web site, or entered your login info.

Scanning your system:

Go to these links in this order:
This first one, you need to RUN from that location.

This is a DIRECT link to that exe file.
If it finds a suspicious program, remove it IF you DONT know what it is.
http://www.xblock.com/download/xclean_micro.exe
This one is the same thing, but you go a different way to this program.
http://www.spywareguide.com/onlinescan.php

Also, I use a program called Spyware Blaster. This program ADDs “ActiveX Kill Bits” to the registry to
help keep some if not most of the popups and parasites from installing onto your computer.
You can surf just about anywhere and watch this program do it’s job.
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/sbdownload.html

Also, while you MIGHT have installed something that messed with your win sock, you need this to fix it:
This is a XP Win Sock Fix
Download and run this and it will want you to reboot. DO SO. REBOOT your computer or this will not work
like it is supposed
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4372.html

The download this and INSTALL it and update it, then run this and remove what it finds.
This is a DIRECT link to the exe file.
http://downloads2.superantispyware.com/downloads/SUPERAntiSpyware.exe

The you need a good anti-virus.
If you have AVG, get rid of it and use something else. Although AVG is free (so are many others) it has
it’s problems and sometimes (more times then normal) reports false positives.

If you use Norton (Symantec) You need to get rid of that also. It isn’t nothing but a resource hog and causes
problems that takes for ever to try and troubleshoot. Also, Norton has a removal tool in order for anyone to
remove it from their system (I say this is bad practice for ANYONE – the removal should have been included).
Norton Removal Tool here :http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/tsgeninfo.nsf/docid/2005033108162039

Anti-Virus
AVAST Anti Virus is FREE and you can also pay for it.
AVAST HERE http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html

And finally, you need to clean your registry out from all the crap that you may have installed and then
uninstalled. To do this, you would need a registry cleaner. MS has a nice one, but would not suggest any
one to use it as it is directed towards the advacned users. However, there is one that I would recommend
to normal users. A program called Reg Seeker. Simple, lite and does not stay resident. Meaning, you load it
and tell it to do it’s job, then close it. Simple fast and usefull.
http://www.hoverdesk.net/freeware.htm

i’m not sure about anti-viruses, but spyware doctor is the best anti-spyware you can get. it protects a computer against spyware, adware, trojans and similar things. download is available at http://www.2-spyware.com/review-spyware-doctor.html