i am being harassed by little red x's on ebay, target and other like sites. News sites are not bothered by this problem. it suddenly happened after i ran pestpatrol and removed some...well alot...of adware and quite ignorantly other 'things' that maybe i shouldn't have?? although it's not a huge distress, as i can still navigate these sites, i still want to resolve this issue. thanks

I love red xs' because they are usuall hidding some dumb Add.
you could try going to tools/ internet options /security and privacy in IE ,and reset to the default levels .