want to get rid of advertising on home page .I am a newbe
When I go to home page a box appeares with adverts in which keep changeing how do I get rid of this box? I am new to commputing so not too technical please. PC has windows 7
When I go to home page a box appeares with adverts in which keep changeing how do I get rid of this box? I am new to commputing so not too technical please.
PC has windows 7
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Do a malware check with some malware scanning programs.
You need to scan with all programs because each program detects different malware.
Make sure that you update each program to get the latest version of their databases before doing a scan.
- http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php - Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware
- http://www.superantispyware.com/ - SuperAntispyware
- http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/defender/default.mspx - Windows Defender: Home Page
- http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html - Spybot Search & Destroy
- http://www.lavasoft.com/products/ad_aware_free.php - Ad-Aware Free
See also:
- "Spyware on Windows": http://kb.mozillazine.org/Popups_not_blocked