Ok Cris, I'll run panda online and if you have an adress of a pop up = stopper for me I'll download that also. Today I also downloaded the newest update from Spybot and run that but = it did not change the pop up ads coming. I never had that before and = also did never have had my icons changing just like that. I know when I = visit a website I get pop ups but this happens when I'm not visiting = websites. Even when I'm playing a card game the ads pop up. sylvia. make sure that you update your spybot search & Destroy - they just had = an update a day or so ago. and run it again.=20 You ran housecall... try running panda online. It sometimes finds things that housecall = doesn't.=20 http://www.pandasoftware.com/ a lot of web pages now create pop ups, so just surfing, will create pop = ups. You don't necessarily need to have anything on your computer that = is creating them - It won't hurt to put a pop up stopper on.=20 Cris Thanks for your help Cris but I don't have Messenger service on my =3D computer and I wish it was as easy as that but this has nothing to do = =3D with Microsoft.=3D20 I looked in my control panel but in WindowsME there is nothing with =3D Administrative Tools. This looks more like there is a virus inside my computer, no use to use = =3D a pop-up killer now because it has already put itself in my computer. They are pop-ups with ads about Viagra and how much in danger I am. sylvia. To unsub or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ For more info: //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=pctechtalk