Pop ups and surveys

I am about to leave the computer for a bit. So I just assume you are using IE.

You can do this with this page open, so you can follow this whilst reading.

Top right hand corner of your screen you should see a little house a little star and a little cog wheel...Click on the cog.

Click on "internet options"
Click "privacy" which should be the third tab along.
On the privacy page you should see a small check box with "turn on pop up blocker" written next to it. Click on the box so that a tick appears in it.
Then click "apply" at the bottom of that window.
Then click "OK"

If that does not help let me know.

Hi Herbal,
thank you for that it seems to be working I need to go and check out some of the other sites and see what happens but they seem to have stopped on this site. thank you

You are welcome :)

Don't want to alarm you. But since you have been getting pop ups, you might now have unwanted cookies. You can use Windows tools to clean things up, but third party cleaners are more popular and easy to use.

I use one called CCleaner. It is free. They have it listed for download on snapfiles. Snapfiles actually check all their downloads so they are safe. Or there are other reputable software sites.

This is direct to them - http://www.snapfiles.com/ then just type cclean in the search box.

Hi Herbal,
I'll get the techno kids onto it this afternoon when they come over for the weekend visit. They seem to know all about this stuff, they fixed my I phone the other day when I wanted to down load the photos from the phone to the computer. thank you very much for the info.

I don't respond to the surveys. Most are just data gatherers in my opinion.

I should have added that after that I downloaded and ran a malware programme.

Hi Motherhen,
thank you for the information sorry it took so long to get back to you and the article and info was most helpful. thanks very much it seems to have solved the problem between yourself and the other comments I received all is now good thank you.

Pleased to hear your good news Broodie. Although I don't know exactly what I did, I think my husband's laptop has been clean ever since. I only use it when we go away or the power goes off.

Mh

Good to hear problem's solved! :)