How to get ride of GAIN pop-up ads.

[Stonephone]

I have been bothering by GAIN pop-up ads during search for a long time. Tried to kick these hidden flies but unsuccessfully. Can anyone teach me how to get these ads COMPLETELY and THOROUGHLY.

Thanks.

 

[Corry]

I'm not familiar with Gain ads, but I was getting BestOffers ads before, and I got rid of them with Microsoft AntiSpyware.

 

[Rob]

Try adaware and spybot search and destroy. As a combination they are great.

http://www.download.com/Ad-Aware-SE...045910.html?part=dl-ad-aware&subj=dl&tag=top5

http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/

GAIN is ANNOYING!!!

Rob

 

[Corry]

Try adaware and spybot search and destroy. As a combination they are great.

http://www.download.com/Ad-Aware-SE...045910.html?part=dl-ad-aware&subj=dl&tag=top5

http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/

GAIN is ANNOYING!!!

Rob

That may work (that's what I had before) but they didn't get rid of BestOffers.

 

[Rob]

Yeah, some of them are git-difficult to remove. I tend to use the Spybot resident to lock the registry, Microsoft Anti-Spyware, and occasionally run Ad Aware for good measure.

Using Firefox seems to be advantageous over IE as it's security is a touch more reliable and there are generally less successful exploits. It's wise to have local firewall facility blocking all outbound traffic if possible to stop anything getting out.

Rob