Dave wrote:
><<I recently started receiving pop-ups...>>


You could try running Spybot in its active mode, which it calls for some 
weird reason "Teatimer".

I don't personally, as I found it was a bit of a pain and rather too 
intrusive, especially when installing new software.  Might help, though I 
never found it very effective.  You can do this through its "Immunize" 
button, or you can do it manually by placing a shortcut to its Teatimer.exe 
in your startup folder.

Both AdAware and A-Squared also have active protection modes, but only in 
their paid versions.  Ewido might be more effective, but again you have to 
pay for its active protection.

Don Penlington






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