I am getting pop up tabs, where can I go to stop them? Spam tabs just open while I am browsing?
I get several tabs during the day.. Most are saying I won a wal-mart gift card, or something similar. Then when I close it I get a pop up asking if I'm sure I want to navigate away from the page.
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Do a malware check with a few malware scan programs.
You need to use all programs because each detects different malware.
Make sure that you update each program to get the latest version of the database before doing a scan.
- http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php - Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware
- http://www.superantispyware.com/ - SuperAntispyware
- http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html - Spybot Search & Destroy
- http://www.lavasoft.com/products/ad_aware_free.php - Ad-Aware Free
- http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/defender/default.mspx - Windows Defender: Home Page
See also "Spyware on Windows": http://kb.mozillazine.org/Popups_not_blocked and What to do when searches take you to the wrong search website
This probably wont help anyone but here is a list of these pop-up sites from the BlockSite add-on in Firefox. Maybe someone could do something to bring these assholes to justice and put them in jail. The list:
http://www.estatehints.com/index.php/design http://www.cinematization.com/index.php/humor http://www.cinematization.com/index.php/relationship http://www.cinematization.com/index.php http://www.lameplaying.com/index.php/software http://www.lameplaying.com/index.php http://www.masshints.com/index.php/track-and-field http://www.masshints.com/index.php http://www.cyberzation.com/index.php/ https://www.waffles.fm/Main_Page https://www.waffles.fm http://www.vehiclebabbles.com/index.php/motorcycles