While surfing, somewhere along the way a window came up that said I had a lot of porn sites hidden somewhere.?

Question

How do I get rid of them?

Answer 1

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(3a) Do an online virus scan to check if you still have any other viruses in your computer. And let us know if the online virus scan still finds any virus or spyware .

Answer 2

In Internet Explorer, click on
Tools>Internet Options...>Privacy>Pop-up blocker(Settings..)

Then at the bottom under the Filter Level:
Select the High: Block all popups.

If you need to view certain webpages that shows up only with a pop-up, hold on the Ctrl key and click on the popup link.
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Or if you mean you still get many popups after doing all the above, YOU ARE IN TROUBLE

Fortunately, it's very easy to fix.
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Then run a scan on your computer with this program and it should clear up the popups.

After doing that, install a free antivirus program http://files.avast.com/iavs4pro/setupeng.exe and scan your PC for any possible presence of viruses. It's one of the best free antivirus that you can possibly get.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

Hi there,
Its unlikely you have actual "sites" hidden on your computer, since sites tend to be huge. If anything, its probably some cookies.

You have a number of options here (these are in order of what I believe to be "most likely"):
1. Don't believe the window, it is quite possible it was an advert for some software to pay for and download (these are common).
2. Clear out your Internet cookies and temp files. In Internet Explorer click "Tools" > "Internet Options" > In the "General" tab, click the "Delete Cookies" and "Delete Files" buttons and confirm the prompts that appear. This cleans out most of your Internet usage history on the machine.
3. If your still nervous, then there are tools available to scan your computer for spy-ware/ad-ware (software that gets in to your computer to monitor your usage) check out:
http://netsecurity.about.com/od/spywareadwareremoval/a/aafreespyware.htm for more info.

Answer 5

Hi, this would only be a popup trying to get you to download spyware. Be sure to get an adblocker / popup blocker (not ones which contain spyware also :P) Always remember to ignore popups in genral.

Answer 6

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for free spyware and antivirus software

Answer 7

if you have a pop up blocker, it SHOULD block the window from popping up. not so sure though