how do you remove Pop up ads and banners?

[J0k3r]

Hi everybody im not sure if i am allowed to ask this question here, or if anyone can help but i am having a few problems with internet explorer 6. I keep on getting stupid adverts and banners whenver a web page loads up, it is really annoying ive uninstalled internet explorer completely using Iredactor then reinstalled it and the adverts are still appearing! its really annoying does anyone know how to remove these from my PC? any help is appreciated guys thanks.

[fragmast3r]

i used to get them from certain peer to peer programs i installed, damn annoying, i used a pop up killer that worked best part of the time, try a search for that on google,

[charlesr]

Or use opera. Which has an option to turn off popups.

[fragmast3r]

oer may have to dl opera for all my porn browsing o_O

[Vaipon]

A popup killer is one way of solving the problem, but if the ad banners are appearing all the time, chances are you have a piece of software like "GAIN" installed. These irritating applications download adverts to your machine all the time. Sometimes, the only way to un-install them is to do some registry editing.

If you want a decent ad killer though, "Ad aware", and "Adsgone" are both excellent.

[Beelzebot]

Or use opera. Which has an option to turn off popups.

As does Mozilla Firebird. It also has the ability to block images from certain servers, so you can get rid of most ad banners.

[Bredrin]

If you like using IE, try google's new pop-up blocker.

link

[J0k3r]

Hey thanks for all your help guys, i got rid of most of the pop ups now thanks to that link by bredrin i also found the home page to one of the adverts that was popping up and got an uninstall program. thanks everyone ad you can close this thread now.

[Ginger Tosser]

Thanks again to Bredin, less windows to close now.