Why am I receiving so many Pop-ups even while I'm offline? I can't play video games without being interrupted. It's already annoying online but now offline! Give me a break! I just keep getting all of these Microsoft IE pop-up windows. My OS is Windows XP Home Edition.
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Jump to PostIt seems as if your browser was hijacked or something for you to be getting IE popups while offline. Are the offline ones always for the same site?
Jump to PostI don't actually know what you mean by "for the same site" but the pop-ups usually are all the same kinds of advertisements.
This wont stop the popups, but will help increase your personal control over your own computer and clean up the content in the popups
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If you …
Jump to PostHi eyeamdaman1
What cscgal is wondering is if they are Messenger pop-ups.......Does Messenger appear at the top of a box with them in. ?
Also if you really want to get your browser and comp sorted out, do this :-
Please Download hijackthis from
Jump to PostTurn off active scripting or better yet use www.mozilla.com
Jump to PostHI eyeamdaman1
YOu have loads of malware in there....follow these instructions in the order they are posted...this will clean a lot of it out and cut your log by more than half.
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Download and run this program :-http://www.merijn.org/files/cwshredder.zip
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Uninstall …
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