How do you stop the ads

[Guest Midnight Express83]

On my favorite menu and desktop, I get huge amounts of adds been added each time I open up IE if no other IE windows are open. Is there a way to turn this off? I tried the pop up trick but I still get the ads?

[Guest Flyboy]

My uncle has the same problem. He downloaded some shit (spyware/adware) that caused it. He's done everything. From deleting the adware from the 'WINDOWS' folder to uninstalling Kazaa. He's used PestPatrol and Ad-ware 6.0 (by Lavasoft), and nothing is working. Any suggestions on helping him?

[Guest Bosstones Fan]

Perhaps Spybot Seek & Destroy might help. I've had some good results with it.

 

http://security.kolla.de

[Guest MrRant]

Spybot is the way to go.

[Guest Cancer Marney]

Another vote for Spybot over here. I run it regularly. The new Immunize function is simply brill.

[Guest MrRant]

If you really want to go hardcore... download Proxomitron. Good stuff.

[Guest Flyboy]

Thanks for the recommendations, guys/gals. It's working like a charm (on my PC). I'll send it to my uncle and see if it helps him at all.