Pop-ups after Ad-aware, SpyBot & SpywareBlaster

I'm at a loss! I've run all the major products to get rid of pop-up ads on a WinXP system. Each product seems to find an exposure and corrects / deletes related files, folders, registry entries but I continue to get pop-ups???

The pop ups apear while in and after closing IE.

What else do I need to do? Help!

Thanks,
Kelly

 

Thanks for the reply PeteC.

The reason that I think there may be some spyware code running on this particular PC is that it's on a home network with 2 others (similarly configured) that don't exhibit the problem. Might be my imagination but IE also seems to load and run slower on the PC that has the pop-up problem.

I've used stoopers before but I feel like i'm fixing a symptom instead of addressing the problem!

Would a log from something like: HijackThis help???

 

The most common popups that appear in XP even after closing IE are due to Messenger service running. Go to start>run and type services.msc and hit enter. Locate messenger in the list, right click and stop then right click and properties. Set to disabled.

Do post a log. There may be other things going on.