FabSwingers.com forum: stopping pop ups

By *layfullsam OP Man
over a year ago

Solihull

A well known computer company have decided its going to make me purchase one of there laptops by pissing me off and having there web page pop up all of the time !

is there an easy way to stop it ?

tried turning laptop on and off again,my normal fix but to no avail

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By *Ryan-Man
over a year ago

In Your Bush

Block pop ups in your browser settings

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By *j_markCouple
Forum Mod
over a year ago

Totteridge/Whetstone

Sounds like you have spyware/malware/adware

Admin x

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By *isscheekychopsWoman
over a year ago

The land of grey peas and bacon

I had that I just restored it to the date before I started getting the pop up it worked for me...then run a software detecting malware

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By *leasureDomeMan
over a year ago

all over the place

if your using firefox get the free noscript plugin it stops most background crap,including tracking stuff.

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By *Ryan-Man
over a year ago

In Your Bush

"I had that I just restored it to the date before I started getting the pop up it worked for me...then run a software detecting malware"

Doesn't surprise me! I bet yours was riddled with porn

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By *layfullsam OP Man
over a year ago

Solihull

"Block pop ups in your browser settings"

thanks but ive got pop ups blocked

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By *layfullsam OP Man
over a year ago

Solihull

"Sounds like you have spyware/malware/adware

Admin x"

thanks for that info, how can i get rid of any/all of the above ?

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By *layfullsam OP Man
over a year ago

Solihull

ps i cant go higher than mediumhigh in privacy settings as when i come onto fab it says it wont work as needs something cookies ?

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By *ourbonKissMan
over a year ago

a land up north..... of leicester

"Sounds like you have spyware/malware/adware

Admin x

thanks for that info, how can i get rid of any/all of the above ?"

Download a program call malwarebytes, its free and should do the job.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I had a problem with a pop up a couple of years ago. they can be got rid of..,

press ctrl alt and del keys to get task manager up.

Select the screen which shows you all of the programs running on the pc (not the opening screen but the one which shows who is running what, how much processing power and memory each program is using etc).

When the pop up appears it will show in the registry either as a new program or as a change to the memory useage or to the processing capacity it uses. You can highlight the 'process' and then click to close the pop up to see if it dissapears or changes to make sure......

Make a save point to restore the system in case of an error then search for the program file which runs the pop up using find. take a record of the files location and then delete the little fucker.....

If u get it wrong the file will be in ur recycle bin to put it back and you know where to put it back but that system has worked for me a couple of times....

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Sounds like you have spyware/malware/adware

Admin x

thanks for that info, how can i get rid of any/all of the above ?

Download a program call malwarebytes, its free and should do the job."

this or dr alex

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I use malwarebytes and also adblock.

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