i dunno why, but rescently ie popups starting popping when i launch firefox :/

i have tried anti-viruses and anti-spywares and they still pop up. i looked at the processes, looked them up, nothing ;(

the only fishy thing i noticed is that i have 2 iexplore.exes running when ie isnt on. i looked with process explorer and they both seem to be valid (tho 2 different locations...) and if i kill them, they pop back up

well... plus' sponsor opened to iexplorer processes, do you have it installed?

nope, thats too obvious for me to miss

o ya, Might be caused by me trying "bitgrabber" a few days ago. but i removed it literaly a minute after i installed it and its too late now to do a sys restore. all points from that day gone =(

Cant you sys restore to before that day?

what anitvirus and anti spyware are you using?

try giving this ago its really helpful and it does the job for me http://www.iobit.com/AdvancedWindowsCarePersonal/download.htm

can you tell us wich sites pop-up?

then it might be easier to find what is causing those pop ups

you don't specify if it's iexplorer or iexplore
anyway, i don't think that analyzing the ads content might help. i would recommend you to check what's on your windows startup list, and disabling what's unknown for you (i use x-setup for that). this will surely fix your problem, but you still need to know how did that file entered your system. most likely it was caused by that biggrabber.

i looked at the startup before, didnt see anything. now looks like I found some "dumb inter.exe", hopefully removing it and anything related will solve the problem

yup, after deleting it (and unlocking with unlocker) all files in the same folder nothing pops up when i launch ff and the iexplore.exes dont pop back up after being killed

yay!