Hi..

My friend came to me, with his laptop, and when you opened IE, it was just loads of junk pop-ups, and impossible to close them all!!
(He just looks at all things indiscriminantly cos he is not too hot on computers!! - and therefore picks up loads of crap)

So I downloaded an alternative BROWSER, and spybot and adware etc and service pack 2 (he is running XP home edition).... and also an up-to-date antivirus software.

I ran them all a few times, and they each obviously picked up lots of problems. So afterwards, it all seems to be running ok, with the new browser, but if you open IE, you still get alll the same weird junk (virus?) pop ups.

I was thinking of deleting IE, and maybe downloading it again or something... would this help at all?

And if not... what would?

Many thanks for any replies posted.
Kop442000If it isn't picked up by adware then it probably has an uninstaller. try going through ad remove programs and removing anything with tool bar, hot and xxx in the name or anything he doesn't recognise and you know isn't important (you seem like the kind that can do that)

good luck and tell US how it goesThanks for the reply!

I will have a check, but off the top of my head, I do REMEMBER some kind of toolbar that I didn't recognise in the programs list.

Thanks again!
Kop442000By the way. If you did DECIDE to unistall IE and REINSTALL it it wouldn't make any difference to your current problem. i would however recomend having your friend use mozilla firefox as his main browser, keep IE installed as some programs still like it.