Adware bomb?

[BlazinDragon]

In the last day or so as soon as i open internet explorer (my default page is about:blank) i get a whole load of adware windows, and i open the crtl + alt+ del box and try and delete all, and when i do ALL of internet explorer shuts down and i didnt touch the main one.

I have McAfee vs 8.0, only virus scan, im not sure about a firewall and no hacker protection.

Im wondering if there is anyway to stop this as this is very annoying.

btw, when i was typing i had another adware bomb as well.

[Torkell]

Download Spybot Search & Destroy, update it, and keep running it until it doesn't find anything (not counting the DSO exploit, that can be safely ignored).

If you don't have a firewall then download ZoneAlarm, keep it running and keep it up to date.

[R3ptile]

AdAware SE Personal (http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/)

[JelZe GoldRabbit]

And switch to Firefox (http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/) while you're at it :)

- JelZe GoldRabbit =:3

[BossJazz]

Does FireFox have a built-in PopUp blocker?

KILLERRABBIT, have you had any encounters with AT-Games lately? They are a MAJOR problem when it comes to Adware.

[Sonyk]

Also, when you close one IE window through Crtl+Alt+Del, it closes all instances of it. So, what happened with it all closing, was suppoused to happen.

[Hybrid]

if u have xp get microsoft anti spyware (best anti spyware program imo because its so integrated)
u can get it here (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=321cd7a2-6a57-4c57-a8bd-dbf62eda9671&displaylang=en&Hash=JGV5JH)

[Torkell]

MS AntiSpyware is good, but Spybot and AdAware detect more malware than it. And they're still capable of pulling out some pretty nasty malware.

[PhAyzoN]

I found MS Antispyware WAY better then Spybot in all cases, even after "Immunizing" w/ spybot whatever i just got rid of came back.

[Nimrod]

++MS AntiSpyware

You cant complain about free AntiSpyware that works ;)