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MeisI
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I second the old fat guy. :teeth
I've tried various pop up blockers, and I must say nothing has been more successful than firefox, and then the google toolbar.
I do however, recomend you getting adaware, as well as spybot search & Destroy. Download them, Update them, and then run them. Delete everything they tell you to, and then switch to firefox. You'll be in non-popup heavin.
Also, if it's really bad, and I mean bad, you may just have to re-format. There was a point where my computer was REALLY bad. Person who used it prior to be obtaining it was one of htose people who click the "yes, install your software" before reading what it was. I ended up just reformating because it wasn't worth my time to track down the little bugger.
Extra side note: Run two hard drives. I've found that by running two drives, it makes it a lot easier to manage my stuff when I need to reformat. I just drag over all my important files, and am done w/ it. I also have all my music and movies in the secondary hard drive. Generally when your computer gets infected by popups/viruses they attack your system drive, and thats it.
I've tried various pop up blockers, and I must say nothing has been more successful than firefox, and then the google toolbar.
I do however, recomend you getting adaware, as well as spybot search & Destroy. Download them, Update them, and then run them. Delete everything they tell you to, and then switch to firefox. You'll be in non-popup heavin.
Also, if it's really bad, and I mean bad, you may just have to re-format. There was a point where my computer was REALLY bad. Person who used it prior to be obtaining it was one of htose people who click the "yes, install your software" before reading what it was. I ended up just reformating because it wasn't worth my time to track down the little bugger.
Extra side note: Run two hard drives. I've found that by running two drives, it makes it a lot easier to manage my stuff when I need to reformat. I just drag over all my important files, and am done w/ it. I also have all my music and movies in the secondary hard drive. Generally when your computer gets infected by popups/viruses they attack your system drive, and thats it.
deaconblues
Roads Scholar
running two drives is a good idea. It also means replacing a drive that's gone totally south isn't as bad of a chore if the only thing on it is the OS and possibly the temp files (I partition my drives and redirect all 'temp' activity to the second partition - that way it doesn't cause file fragmentation on the system partition.)
I also seperate out a drive/partition for applications (at least those that don't insist on being on the system drive - thank you ever so fucking much, Microsoft Office!) and one for documents or downloads. The idea is to keep the OS, the temporary scratch space, the applications, and the documents from all doing the watusi with each other and stepping on toes. It also means that drive optimization takes less time, because instead of doing the whole drive, it only does one partition... because the system has files open, it's the one that always takes so fardwarking long, but the others go relatively quickly (even the swap drive!).
It works fairly well, in practice anyway.
But yah (AHEM) back on topic... ad-aware and spybot S&D, install firefox (and set it to be the default so's other things don't invoke IE by mistake!!) -- happy and relatively unmolested computer.
I also seperate out a drive/partition for applications (at least those that don't insist on being on the system drive - thank you ever so fucking much, Microsoft Office!) and one for documents or downloads. The idea is to keep the OS, the temporary scratch space, the applications, and the documents from all doing the watusi with each other and stepping on toes. It also means that drive optimization takes less time, because instead of doing the whole drive, it only does one partition... because the system has files open, it's the one that always takes so fardwarking long, but the others go relatively quickly (even the swap drive!).
It works fairly well, in practice anyway.
But yah (AHEM) back on topic... ad-aware and spybot S&D, install firefox (and set it to be the default so's other things don't invoke IE by mistake!!) -- happy and relatively unmolested computer.
Likely2BAirborn
Well-known member
Google toolbar my brotha. How the fuck are ya? Too cool to drop me a line or what?
