I have commercial Popup blocker, Pro version, and IE popup tool is activated as well. Practically, I have no popup ads, but almost any time I open IE, one or more websites open, mostly semi- or frankly porno. Anything can be done? P. S. It's a relatively new thing, 2 or 3 mos.

You have to find the program that is connecting to those web sites. The first 2 places to look are: In the startup folder. Run msconfig and disable everything in the startup tab. Run regedit and go to: HKLM Software Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion Run Look closely.

You should also run a couple of Adware programs as well: AdAware, Spybot Search and Destroy are the ones I use. Michael J

Try Windows Defender as well. It's free. I also like Adaware and Spybot Search and Destroy, both free, too. "How many squirrels had to die to make you look fly?!"

Thank you all! I do have both Spybot and AdAware, but didn't run them for a long time, since I'd BOUGHT Spy Sweeper and the last version of NAV that controls spyware (in addition to viruses). I'll follow all advices and will report the results in a few days. I also wonder: will deleting all cookies that don't look familiar might be usefull? Or using "Delete cookies" in IE Internet tools would be more effective? I never do the latter because I'm afraid that I'd lose useful cookies too and will have to re-login to all "my" sites.

"I also wonder: will deleting all cookies that don't look familiar might be usefull?" I'd delete all tracking cookies found by spybot, adaware, why not? But they're probably not gonna help you in this issue at the moment. FYI, if you want to stop the bad cookies, turn off third party cookies in your browser. "How many squirrels had to die to make you look fly?!"

Ohhh, and Norton sucks for spyware control, and I honestly think their PC AV products suck, too. "How many squirrels had to die to make you look fly?!"