Does anybody know of a way to stop popups? After opening a spam e-mail
- which apparently I should not have - pressing the shortcut for
internet explorer gives something else which can  be deleted by
pressing Ctrl-Alt-Del but the internet explorer which is underneath it
works erratically and sales-pitch screens, pornographic screens and
other undesirables keep popping up and eliminate the web site I
finally managed to come up with.
I have a pentium with windows 95.
I also have the cd-rom "Win ultra cleaner" by Business logic but using
it helped a little bit
only. Can it be used to stop popups?

Hi,

You have basically two problems. The first is getting rid of the
problem that you have now, and the second is preventing future popups.

As to the first problem, chances are that you have some sort of adware
on your computer.

To find out what Adware is, see one of these pages:

Adware
http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,289893,sid9_gci521293,00.html

Adware, Spyware and Advertising Trojans
http://cexx.org/adware.htm

Information on Adware
http://www.adware.info/

Information is available on those pages about removing adware. I would
also strongly recommend, based on personal experience and numerous
recommendations I have read, the following site, where you can
download free software that will probably do what you want:

Ad-Aware
http://www.lavasoft.de/software/adaware/

The following software is also helpful:

Spybot Search & Destroy
http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php

Once you've taken care of that problem, of course, what you want to do
is stop future popups.  The easiest way to do that is to use a
different browser. Both Opera and Firefox can be easily configured to
eliminate popups.  (So can Internet Explorer, but then you also have
to disable JavaScript, making many sites unusable.) Firefox is free,
and Opera comes in both free and paid versions. You can learn more
about those browsers and download them here:

Opera:
http://www.opera.com

Firefox
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/

If you wish to continue using Internet Explorer, the easiest way to
stop popups is to install the Google toolbar:

Google Toolbar
http://toolbar.google.com

As far as Ultra Win Cleaner goes, I checked its specs, and as far as I
can tell it doesn't have popup-stopping capabilities. You can find its
specs here:

Ultra Win Cleaner Utility 2002
http://www.compusa.com/products/product_info.asp?product_code=287708&pfp=BROWSE

I hope you find this information useful.

Sincerely,

Mvguy-ga










This answer was based mostly on personal knowledge. I also performed
the following Google searches:

Adware
://www.google.com/search?q=adware&sourceid=opera&num=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

"Ültra Win Cleaner"
://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=%22ultra+win+cleaner%22&btnG=Search

Did not hve a chance to try this out but hope it will be useful

Try using Mozilla instead of Explorer

http://www.mozilla.org

Or try installing the Google Toolbar:
http://toolbar.google.com

I reccomend you download Ad-Aware at www.lavasoft.de, the personal version is free.
Direct Download: http://download.com.com/3001-8022-10214379.html

After installing, click "check for updates now" and click "connect"
Then close the update window and click "start" and then "next".
Ad-aware will scan   (click "next" when it's done) and find the
program causing these pop-ups, then click "next" again then "ok", then
exit the program, if this doesn't work email me at:

andymadigan at yahoo dot com

Windows Service SP2