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I'm getting pop ups now even when I don't have Explorer open. They all say something to the affect of "click here to portect yourself from these annoying pop ups". I have a DSL connection with Norton firewall. What port do I need to block to keep these critters out. I've done a scan with adaware, deleted temp internet files but I keep getting them. Any help would be appreciated.

You need AvayaNovice on this one. I run my network through a D-Link switch with a built in firewall, I also use Norton virus and I also put a spyware program on it that AvayaNovice told me about. I don't get hardly ant pop ups at all. but he is the guy you need.

One way to reduce pop-ups is to check your machine for spy-bots. These cause your PC to run slow and cause pop-ups buy placing "tracking software" on your PC.
Go to GOOGLE.COM
Type in spy bots for your search
Download software that is listed spy bots search and destroy. It is free but you can make a donation. This software is international and you choose by a flag icon.
There is no USA flag, you need to use the British flag.
good luck

Thanks for the info. I downloaded spybot and when I did the scan I belive it hyperventilated. I removed everything it found, maybe that will take care of the problem. One other thing I noticed was a shortcup kept showing up my desktop that would'nt do anything, and had what looked like a sine wave for a name. I kept deleting but it would re-appear. Anyway thanks again for the info.

See if you can drag it to your trash can. After the spy did it's thing it more than likely disabled the link for that shortcut.
If that doesn't work then look at the properties then go in to add and remove programs and see if you can remove it.

CMDL_GUY pointed you in the right direction.

Spybot is the best program out there. Continually scan your PC with spybot and you should be OK.

Make sure you use the IMMUNIZE function of spybot to prevent further cases from occuring. Regularly update spybot (use the online tab/button) to get new bot updates to prevent more of those damn things from getting to your computer.

You might also want to download AdAware, it works well in conjunction with spybot.

If you see those random ActiveX signature allowances where it says Yes or No to authorize something to install in Internet Explorer, closely look it over. Most of the time you'll want to hit no and not let it run. There are a lot of those popup programs that track you that use that method to install their damn software.

Nick

Johny-
Sometimes these critters install themselves as an application (the icon you get on your desktop that you can't get rid of), usually by writing an .exe file to part of the OS startup. Try looking in Add/Remove Programs for the offending application and uninstall it!

Good point Rover.

You might also want to look in your registry under run for applications that startup automatically, yet look sketchy.

You can do that by going to:

Start > Run. Type "regedit" without the quotes and hit enter.

Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > Software > Microsoft > Windows > Current Version > Run

Delete any entries that are obviously not belonging there.

I'd run SPYBOT first though.

I haven't tried Spybot, but Ad-Aware works really good.
Are these pop-ups in explorere windows or are the generic grey windows?
Windows messenger service allows people to send you msgs through the net (not to be confused with MSN Messenger.)
If you go into control panel > admin. tools > Services you can disable it.
Just right click on Mesenger Service and click properties, then stop the servie and disable it from the dropdown.
People are really hitting this hard now, the do a netsend to random ip addresses and once they find a live one they start sending a bunch of msgs. to it.

Thanks for all the replies. After doing the spybot scan, I have only had one pop up thus far. At least I may have em on the run. I'll try each of the other suggestions as well. Thanks to all.