Random IE Pop-Ups

[Munday]

Good Afternoon,

Wonder if you lot can help me. I keep getting random IE Pop-ups come up from time to time. I use Firefox normally so it must have been something I have accidently installed.
The only way I can stop them from coming up is to set my firewall to block iexplore.exe. I need to use IE for work so this isnt a permenant fix.
I have run Ad-Aware and also Spybot - Search and Distroy and it still happens. I have also searched the registry for the cuplrit but can't find anything.
What else can I try?
Thanks in advance.

James

 

[JuanBoy]

Grab yourself a few Cleaning Freebies install & run



Adaware
http://www.download.com/3000-2144-10045910.html

CCleaner
http://www.ccleaner.com/download/

Registry Cleaner
http://www.eusing.com/free_registry_cleaner/registry_cleaner.htm

http://www.ccleaner.com/download/

 

[G_F]

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/

 

[KDF]

^ dont settle for anything less..

 

[Daz]

^ dont settle for anything less..

Unless it's Safari

 

[172.com]

Safari :|

 

[Munday]

Thanks your help everyone.

I think CCleaner has done the job

 

[Daz]

Safari :|

Yes? Can I help you?

 

[172.com]

Yes, yes you can. I'll design all my sites for Firefox then send the HTML and CSS too you so you sort out Safari's buggering up of the layout. It's so pedantic it's untrue.

Luckily though, it doesn't happen to much!

 

[Ja5on]

Good Afternoon,

Wonder if you lot can help me. I keep getting random IE Pop-ups come up from time to time. I use Firefox normally so it must have been something I have accidently installed.
The only way I can stop them from coming up is to set my firewall to block iexplore.exe. I need to use IE for work so this isnt a permenant fix.
I have run Ad-Aware and also Spybot - Search and Distroy and it still happens. I have also searched the registry for the cuplrit but can't find anything.
What else can I try?
Thanks in advance.

James

are the pop ups advertising, spyware software etc etc??? i

 

[Munday]

They were advertising ones. Havent had one since I ran CCleaner so I think its fixed

 

[Daz]

Yes, yes you can. I'll design all my sites for Firefox then send the HTML and CSS too you so you sort out Safari's buggering up of the layout. It's so pedantic it's untrue.

Luckily though, it doesn't happen to much!

You'll find Safari is one of the most standards-orientated browsers around.
You worry about IE first :rasp:

 

[172.com]

Firefox 1, 1.5, 2.0 - Check
Netscape 7 & 8 - Check
Opera 7, 8 & 9 - Check
IE 5.5, 6, 7 - Check
Safari - D'oh!

 

[Daz]

Firefox 1, 1.5, 2.0 - Check
Netscape 7 & 8 - Check
Opera 7, 8 & 9 - Check
IE 5.5, 6, 7 - Check
Safari - D'oh!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid2

Acid2 test. Look at the browsers which pass
And check which was the first, also

 

[172.com]

I don;t denying it's a good browser and is standards compliant. If it works in FF it generally works in Safari, but it's so pedantic sometimes! "Oh look, I've found some extra whitespace in a class/id name, f**k it, I think I'll fail to mark it up properly, even though most other browsers won't have an issue with it".

Oh and it doesn't allow for full AJAX functionality. Shite.

 

[Daz]

I think the answer there is write better code, isn't it?
Extra white space == Evil.

 

[Maz]

Same has been happenign to me I thuoght I had a virus will try the cleaner ta

 

[Maz]

That aint worked