How come lads when i click on perrsonal info under my home..some consumer advertising cr.. keeps coming up.Its doing me head in .cant get past it

I have no idea what this could be and it is certainly nothing to do with FW.

Could you have a bug on your computer?

I havnt a clue either. What we do know is that it shouldnt do it, I cant see it being a virus (never heard of a advetising virus) so for my money I would guess at a rougue cookie. Try clicking on tools on your task bar, internet options, general tag, temporary internet files, delete files, check the box to delete all of line content then click ok. This may take a while dependent upon how long it is since you last dumped all your cookies. Dont worry you cant lose any files that you need, these are all just cookies. If that doesnt work then I am stumped.

Thanks for that lads
no matter what i did last night i couldn't get rid..in the end i had to drag it off the screen,you know how you have the 3 small boxes it the top right hand corner in the window and you obviously click the cross to get rid,well there wasn,t nowt there!!i will try again in a min and see what happens,Thanks anyway

If you look through the free cover disks that you get with computer magazines there are various programs to stop pop-ups, and to delete rougue cookies. I have one called Ad-aware 5.0, and another one called Pop-up Stopper.
The only trouble with deleting all cookies is that they contain information such as passwords and customised settings. If you delete the FW cookie you will have to set your site preferences up all over again. The Ad-aware programme lets you remove them selectively. You can probably find those or similar ones by just keying in some keywords into a search engine such as Google.

Dropback,
Another tip is to use a firewall as this will stop people accessing your system when you are online, it also stops software you have on your computer acting as a server (sending and receiving information without your permition, this is generaly called "Spyware") companies such as Lexmark who make printers are renouned for doing this. It is a way of collecting information on the sites you visit and reporting this back to the company and they then "send relevant offers" depending on your surfing habits, or this is the excuse they use for having it on heir instalation software. So it could be "Spyware" built into a program you have installed which is causing these adds to appear. For a free personal firewall go to www.zonealarm.com or if you are using windows XP then it has it's own personal firewall built in and you could try reconfiguring it.

Hope this helps.

I also have ZoneAlarm, which is a free download, and extremely effective. I've got so used to it that I forgot to mention it. It goes off all the time when I'm using Kazaa, so if you use that, it's a probable source of dodgy cookies.

http://download.com.com/3000-2094-10107505.html?tag=lst-0-2
follow the above link for the latest adaware.....peter...if your using version 5 of adaware,i suggest you update mate,it may find spyware your not even aware you have!.

http://download.com.com/3120-20-0.html?qt=zonealarm&tg=dl-2001&search=+Go%21+
and for the latest zonealarm try this link above


if you have windows xp,you can control which cookies individually,creating rules for them as you go along.
if your a windows 98 user,theres a program called cookie pal which is readily available on the net,although you will need to either purchase it,or find a username and password from somewere if you know what i mean

Thank's a lot guy's your help is much appreciated,hope this help's to stop it.

http://download.com.com/3000-2366-10113565.html?tag=lst-0-7
oh yeah i forgot......this ones popup stopper

Peter I dump my cookies fairly often and I have never lost my personal settings. In fact I clear my temp internet files on a regular basis.

I also delete all temp files and cookies before defregmenting and running scandisk weekly and haven't lost any settings.

After 3 hour's of p...ing about lad's, i finally got it sussed.Dumped all the cookies etc andy and the mother was still there (took me half hour find internet options)then i thought we would try the norton anti virus we had given us and after 62000 files checked it found jacksh.t contaminated
did what jedi marker and pete said about ZONEALARM.COM FREE TRAIL and now it's working dont get what its done but consumer.com doesn't keep popping up anymore....yee haa
lost me personal settings in the process but that was nowt
Nice to know us computer novices (thick gits) can get help when needed from you clever sod's
Thanks again lad's

Good to hear it's fixed mate, and on the bright side....the Zonealarm program is yours for good, you only pay for it if you use it on a business system or you can pay to upgrade to "Zonealarm Pro".

consumer.com sounds like spyware.....i'd try the adaware too mate.....you'd be surprised how much sh*t gets onto your pc.
if you've never run adaware before,i guarantee it will find spyware on your pc,even if its only cookies from the likes of doubleclick etc.......download/install and run it mate,and keep running it every few weeks or so

Marker
cheer's for the advise,is this something i can download,cause iv'e just tried the obvious www.adaware.com,but that aint it,do you have a web address please ?

check my post above dropback,the first hyperlink will take you to it,just click the download button,then run/install it when your done

sussed it m8,downloading now
cheers

dropback.....i'm assuming you've managed to use the program by now,how did you get on mate? were you surprised by how much crap was found? or was there very little?

Tell you what m8,iv'e sent 108 SUSPICIOUS files packing'wasn't sure what i was clicking on at first so i did a deep scan then drive d scan then memory scan.....scanned the fri..in lot.Probably deleted all me porn and me lady's, asda shopping list !!!
I'll tell her you told me get rid
Other than that m8 everything is looking good,thank's for asking

lol 108 files....that must be a record you should make a point of running that prog every few weeks,just to help keep the nosey buggers out hopefully all should be ok for you now

Just told the mrs weve broke record's,she say's it's all the porn i downloadWill be doing that from now on mucker scanning every couple of weeks, that hasn't been done since i brought it for her 7 month's ago,
Thank's again for all the advice,ime off to watch some girlies!!!c u later

If you want to REALLY get rid of extra junk that seems to gather with an IE browser, you might also want to get a free program called Spider from http://www.fsm.nl/ward/ . By checking one or more boxes, you can have the program remove temporary internet files, cookies, history files, and the little, hidden file that shows all the cookies and history you DID have even if you deleted it.

Runs fast and works well.

The perfect companion to the other software discussed on here I think.