My Yahoo pop-up blocker has been working overtime & I have had to disable it even to get into my address book?

Answer 1

There is a big difference between a legitamate pop up, which is set by the website you are visiting; and a barrage of pop ups. What good would it do Yahoo to bombard you with them? If you're on Yahoo you should only be getting Yahoo pop ups.
You've got some kind of spyware and I'd like to bet that any day now you're going to get an offer of a "free spyware scan" from some company you'venever heard of. It'll be free until they find hundreds of infected files, which you pay them to remove...
Don't be caught out, install a firewall, set it to run in stealth mode, download and run some of the following free security software;

http://www.mozilla.com/ Firefox web browser
http://www.opera.com/ Opera web browser

Microsoft have two free online scanners that look for malware.
http://safety.live.com/site/en-US/default.htm

http://www.microsoft.com/security/malwareremove/default.mspx

You can also download Microsofts free Windows Defender from the official Microsoft site.

The Windows firewall doesn't stop malware on your pc from dialling out. Either of these firewalls are free for personal use and stop unwanted incoming and outgoing traffic. You choose which programs are allowed to access the internet. They are both fairly easy to use and updated regularly.

http://www.zonelabs.com Zone Alarm firewall
http://www.kerio.com Kerio firewall

Winpatrol is a handy utility that tracks cookies on your pc and stops unwanted changes to your startup folder.
http://www.winpatrol.com

Spywareblaster works with Internet Explorer. It won't uninstall spyware that is already on your pc, but it will prevent hijacks and other malicious changes to I.E.
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html

The best antispyware is Spyware Doctor
http://www.pctools.com The free version won't remove anything, but it'll tell you the name and location so you can get help.

Ewido anti trojan
http://www.ewido.net

Ad-Aware SE Personal anti adware
http://www.lavasoft.de/software/adaware/

Spybot Search and Destroy anti spyware
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html

http://www.grisoft.com AVG Antivirus
http://www.avast.com Avast antivirus

http://www.ccleaner.com Cr*pCleaner Registry and Privacy Tool

Remember to update and run all of you anti malware programs at least once a week.

Answer 2

Sounds like a case of pop-up blocker overkill. IE has one built in, so to use Yahoo's on top of that is probably causing a problem where one or the other is catching even legitimate pop-ups and not letting them show up. I'd recommend removing Yahoo's and fine-tuning your IE blocker, but the best solution would be to kill your pop-up problem all together by running some Adware and Spyware programs. Ad Aware and Spybot (both available free at download.com) are my two favorites. If you don't want to do this, or it doesn't solve the problem, you'll need to tune-up your pop-up blocker by going into its "allow" and "deny" lists and making sure that legitimate sites, such as Yahoo, are not covered by your pop-up blocker's range of activity.

Answer 3

you should lower the setting of your yahoo pop up blocker

Answer 4

It's probably not so much of a problem that it's being over worked as it is that you probably have spyware.

Are you using antivirus or adware removal tools? Good luck!

AVG Free Antivirus
http://free.grisoft.com/doc/2/lng/us/tpl/v5

Adware/Spyware Removal Tool
http://www.lavasoft.com

Answer 5

you must be getting a load in every few seconds ,do a anti spy scan to check .

Answer 6

i have that problem too i can't get my e-mail without it beep