The first thing to do is to make sure these pop-ups are not being generated from within. That’s right … many parasites, adware enabled software downloads and P2P files will create pop-ups. They do this for various reasons including trying to entice you into purchasing some other type software such as pop-up blockers, or “IE cleaners”. However the big trend now is to entice you to run a (in most cases a bogus) freeware “Anti-Spyware” scan. Don’t get fooled by these tactics …. remove them by scanning your system for spyware and parasites.
Note: using a HOSTS file can help prevent these parasites from infecting your machine in the future.
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