ok for some reason I keep getting a pop up on my home page MSN and sometimes a pop up even when I have no window open. I have run ad a ware,I have run spysweeper I run norton everyday and still this darn pop up keeps coming back.


I think it might attach. to something I downloaded for my paint shop pro,because it started happening after I downloaded graphics.

any idea's on how to get rid of the darn thing? it is driving me crazy.


ps I have pop up stopper

What browser are ya using?

Anything "suspect" appearing in the startup or msconfig?

windows. 6.0

have not looked will do so now
Do not see anything strange

thanks

What ad's in the pop-up? Is it an MSN pop-up (I get pop-ups from MSN home page sometimes )?

sounds like a windows messenger window to me. does it look like a windows popup window? here is how to stop it (you don't need this service anyway, unless you use windows messenger which i don't know one person who does):

start
settings
control panel
adiministrative tools
services
look for 'messenger' double click on it
change the startup type to 'disabled'
hit the stop button so it will stop running immediately
then hit apply
then hit ok

then no more annoying msgs. if you ever decide you want windows messenger, which once again i highly doubt, you can always reverse this, no big deal.

or
START
Run......
services.msc

:-)

i don't know how good allie is with computers, so just to be clear if you do it bassets way, once the new window pops up then you do the following:

look for 'messenger' double click on it
change the startup type to 'disabled'
hit the stop button so it will stop running immediately
then hit apply
then hit ok

Thanks guys I will do that,

I am pretty good at the computer. Plus my son is great at it.


Ok did what you guys told me to so lets hope this works

well it turned out I have a trojan horse virus. I ran house call and it found the virus, I run Norton everyday and it never seems to find any viruses.

Those buggers probably can disable NAV or just aren't detected? Is that particular trojan in symantec's database?

do you update your norton?

yeah give us more details on the trojan if you have it, especially the name.

This forum was helpful to me also. I disabled my messenger.

I ran a program called hosecall and it picked it right up.

I update norton all the time. It never picks anything up for me,.

I do not remember name of the virus sorry