Posted on February 18th, 2010There you go, doing your daily surfing on the Internet. All of the sudden you receive a pop up asking you to buy a certain brand of T shirt. So you ignore it and continue you on with your web surfing. All of the sudden once again, you receive another pop up asking you about the same shirt. This time you are on a completely different site than you was before. Once again you close it and start to web surf and again, the same pop up comes up. You have been on three different sites and the same pop up has come up. For most people this can start to become frustrating, especially if you don’t have th slightest bit of interest in the item that they are trying to sell to you. So in this article, we go through a couple of steps to help you get rid of pop ups such as this.
There are two ways that pop ups like this are caused. One way is that they are brought on when you surf the Internet and the actual web page that you are looking at serves up a pop up or two. This is a standard practice and there are a lot of browsers that have extensions known to combat this problem. To have these extensions automatically included on your computer, you must make sure that you have the latest version of the browser. This means that you must have Internet Explorer 7 or 8, Firefox 3.0 or better, or Chrome from Google. If you have one of these browser, then that will help you against web based pops.
The other way that these pop ups are caused, is through the use of software that has been inserted on your computer. There are a lot of programs that you will download on your computer and run. When you first install the program, they will show you a list of features that they are installing along with the main program. You leave a check mark on what you want installed and uncheck what you do not want. Most people will just not pay attention to the list and click right through. This is when you will install the part of the software that will show you pop ups. This is why you must be aware of what you are installing on your computer at all times.
To get rid of pop ups that appear in this manner, use a third party tool such as ad-aware. These programs are designed to go after programs that are showing you pop ups. Some anti viruses also have this feature but software that is dedicated to this problem are the best solutions. The resources of the company is solely dedicated to getting rid of pop ups of this type. An anti virus company has to worry about other types of infections as well.
This is how you can get rid of pop ups in your Windows 7 installation. If you find your self getting annoyed with your computer, maybe this solution can help.