Just recently, within the past few days, I've been getting pop-up ads on my computer. It isn't an obscene amount, but any pop-up is annoying. Also, whenever I restart my computer, the homepage is changed. I have it set to s2ki.com, but when I restart my computer, it goes to some stupid search site. I looked in the remove/install programs list, but didn't see anything that doesn't belong there. Is there anything I can do without downloading programs? Or if I must download a program to fix this, what would be the best?

Thanks.

 

what operating system? if Windows 98/ME/XP you can go to start, run, and type msconfig. Go to the startup tab and disable everything except your antivirus and see if that helps. If it does help, then a program is running in the background that is having these ads pop up.

 

If your talking about pop-ups that come from internet explorer, I use a program called Adsgone from download.com. Works very well for me, and now I can search for porn without having all these crazy pop-ups The version from download.com is shareware, but I have it hacked.

As for your homepage changing, you might want to download spybot and adaware to remove any hidden installed files in your computer. The "stupid search site" that you refer to wouldn't happen to be called cpanel, would it? My friend's computer has that program in his computer with that and it completely screwed over his internet explorer. I have no idea how to remove the software from his computer. I hope you can get it worked out.

 

I had this same problem, along with a virus. Had to re-format my computer and install a firewall. Next I'm going to download something to keep away the pop-ups.