I am having problems with some company called popcorn.com my son thought it was for just movies and now they?

Question

slam him every time he or anybody is on the computer.
they say sign up for our service to stop their advertisements from poping up on our screen. I feel like a hostage. my pop ups are set but they burried themselves in my files. I cant erase them. PLEASE HELP!!! Thank you.

Answer 1

here is the answer I had given to users having same problem, and worked successfully.
http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-6.TyULMiaafk4PnY1H5X?p=16

Answer 2

I had a similar problem like yours. When i formatted my C drive only
the popups stopped. I think formatting your C drive would be the best solution. it wont delete any data stored on the other drives.

Answer 3

I second the Ad-aware idea... I run it about once a month to be sure I keep my machine free of spyware and parasites like this.

Answer 4

here are 2 free popcorn.net removal tools...popcorn.net is a very wicked site that tries to force u to pay for something that u did not purchase...go to either of these 2 sites and u can remove popcorn.net
http://www.schrockinnovations.com/removepopcorn2.php
http://www.2-spyware.com/remove-popcorn.html

Answer 5

Google........ Ad-ware...this is a program to get rid of spy-ware put on your computer that was not put there by you. You can also block them from your computer. try this it should work. i used to have the same problem.......my computer was so slow and it was from spy-ware putting stuff on my computer.

Answer 6

ADAWARE WONT REMOVE ALL OF POPCORN.COM ,
GO TO www.download.com and download superantispyware, it removes all traces of popcorn.com that have buried themselves deep in your registry... will cure your problem did mine ..