popup pest

Greetings to all,

I have my PC working just fine now after running for about 2 months after formatting my C drive. I have religiously avoided downloading unwanted stuff from the web to avoid further problems.

Now I find a thing called "MacrMedia Flash 6" popping up EVERY time I change a page on my favorite web site forum. It tells me that "the page you are opening need MacroMedia Flash" etc. I click NO ( dont instal ) and the web page loads up normally every time ok.

Please, how do I get rid of this THING !!!

 

You won't like this but you get rid of that pop-up by downloading and installing MacroMedia Flash 6

 

Kevin Hi
Flash is OK But I don't trust just any site to install it , rather just go to Macromedia my self,, shockwave flash.
even our PC came shipped with it Bundled with IE,, Microsoft's doing. so you should first go to control panel add-remove and uninstall the old shockwave flash if there. then check in tools > IE options >first page hit settings then view objects if there is still a shockwave flash there right click on it and choose remove.
Then go get the latest
Macromedia Flash Player: http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash
Then if they get annoying you could get :
SpywareBlaster - Prevent spyware from ever being installed!: http://www.wilderssecurity.net/spywareblaster.html
It has a flash killer,,(was just mentioned here at windows BBS)

Sometimes an add agency somehow highjacks flash player,, thats when my popup stoper comes in handy..
Regards
Lonny


Lonny

 

Hi folks,

thanks for the help with this THING. It seems that "to beat it I have to join it ".

OK, I have done that, from their home site, and it all seems to have settled down, tnx again.