POP Up's The Devils pain in the A **

[in a mo]

My pop up programme is set to medium to allow sites that I use on a regular basis to get through ,my problem is that I am getting fake pages informing me that I have a major virus ,I scan with the AVG and Malware neither pick up any virus or problems ,I also today have received a page from "Click on " this is not being picked up,I tried everything to clear the screen but to no avail .Please help

[Buenchico]

There are two types of pop-up. The first is (usually unwanted) web pages which are sent to your PC when you visit a particular site. (i.e. if you don't visit those sites you won't see any pop-ups). Pop-up programs generally do a good job of blocking them (although it's probably better to just use a decent browser, such as Firefox, which removes the need for any external pop-up blocker).

Other pop-ups are actually stored on your PC by malware, so that they can appear irrespective of the site you're visiting. Pop-up blockers won't stop those appearing because they only protect the path between the internet and your PC. To get rid of them you need to do a thorough scan with a decent malware removal program.

Unlike anti-virus programs and firewalls (which run 'in the background') you can have as many anti-malware programs on your PC as you like. (They only run 'on demand', so conflicts can't occur). Most people find that using the free versions of Ad-Aware and/or Spybot Search & Destroy will do the job.

http://download.cnet....-8022_4-10045910.html

http://www.safer-netw...n/spybotsd/index.html

Chris