I keep getting this pop-up (about every 30 minutes) from a place called moviepass.tv. There is a woman in it who says "your 3 day free trial is up" and what it boils down to is they want $24.95 from me to stop these pop ups. This has been going on for 6 months now and its really getting on my nerves. I never applied for a free trial from this place, but I do have younger nieces and nephews(5-11yrs. old) who visit every weekend that might have. There is no email address to write to,or no phone number to call, to explain that I never ordered the free trial, just this annoying popup! Is there anything I can do to stop these popups, short of paying them the money? I have recieved no services from this place, and would hate to pay them for nothing at all! Pleeeeease does anyone have any advice for me????
2006-06-05 15:50:28 · 10 answers · asked by SidTheKid 5 in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
Update your anti-virus or use AVG Free.
Goto www.Lavasoft.com - download Ad-Aware SE - free for personal use. Removes Adware.
Find Spybot Search and Destroy, load, run - Removes Adware.
Remember
You can only run 1 antivirus program at a time. Do a full virus scan on a weekly basis.
You can run more than 1 adware remover because they are manual scans initiated by you. Run about once a week.
Also, make sure you have a firewall.
It's up to you to defend yourself, Live, love, laugh, and always learn
Ciao,,,
2006-06-05 15:59:35 · answer #1 · answered by B'Dub 1 · 14⤊ 2⤋
Hi, have you tried running a Spy-ware program? If not, you should try Ad-Aware and/or Spy-Bot, they are both free and I use both and that usually gets rid of most of the problems. Just type in those names in a search engine download and the free versions. If not it gets a bit more involved.
2006-06-05 15:58:18 · answer #2 · answered by leofromhawaii 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
go into your add/remove programs list and see if it is listed there. if it is, just click on it and then remove- it may be spyware...
of course you might also have the need for adaware which is free from download.com
download and install it, then update your definitions and run it at least weekly. it cleans your computer of problems like this
susan
2006-06-05 15:55:46 · answer #3 · answered by notfromaround_here 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
that is a virus, or some sort of malware anyway. i did a google search for the site, and there are sooo many people complaining about the same thing. you might try running a spyware remover on your computer.
2006-06-05 15:53:03 · answer #4 · answered by obscuremagic 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
get Ad-Aware from this site (free version, don`t have to buy it)
http://www.lavasoft.de/software/adaware/
and clean your PC from adwares and spywares.
After that, download some other net browser like Mozilla or Opera and use that instead of Internet Explorer.
2006-06-05 15:55:52 · answer #5 · answered by syockit 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Get your anti-spy software going and get rid of it. Have you tried using one of those programs to see if it can be picked up on your pc. I had some of this nature and well it fixed my computer. It was from an online casino.
2006-06-05 15:53:32 · answer #6 · answered by sonicburnt 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its not a virus, its spyware, go to yahoo.com and type in adaware se personal and download the free copy of that, its free forever, free updates, and scans, hope this helped,,:) note; you have to be running windows 98 or greater to run this software,,:-)
2006-06-05 15:59:32 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Run a virus scan.
2006-06-05 15:54:44 · answer #8 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
try to block out pop up ads ..they are soo freaking annoying
2006-06-05 15:53:20 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous Girl 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Set your pop-up blockers on your computer.
2006-06-05 15:53:04 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋