This has happened to me at least once a week and happened twice today, Maybe someone can help me with this. It starts out normal and everythings going fine than all of a sudden a bunch of Blank Webpages Pop up one right after anouther and i try to close them one at a time but they keep popping up until theirs about 20-30 Of them and My computer Freezes. Has this happened to anyone else or does anyone know why its doing this?

Nope, never happened to me before.:confused:

Originally posted by King Chad Doody
This has happened to me at least once a week and happened twice today, Maybe someone can help me with this. It starts out normal and everythings going fine than all of a sudden a bunch of Blank Webpages Pop up one right after anouther and i try to close them one at a time but they keep popping up until theirs about 20-30 Of them and My computer Freezes. Has this happened to anyone else or does anyone know why its doing this?


It happens to me only when I go to certain web pages. The best thing you can do is to have a pop-up blocker and an anti-virus software program. Use them both religiously.

My computer also freezes up sometimes, but once you restart it, provided that you can't get back into using it (sometimes that happens), you need to clear a lot of clutter on the machine. Delete old junk files and other stuff that's taking up a lot of space.

Originally posted by amp2k3
It happens to me only when I go to certain web pages. The best thing you can do is to have a pop-up blocker and an anti-virus software program. Use them both religiously.

My computer also freezes up sometimes, but once you restart it, provided that you can't get back into using it (sometimes that happens), you need to clear a lot of clutter on the machine. Delete old junk files and other stuff that's taking up a lot of space.

Thanks for the Advice. I Have a Pop Up Blocker but i will try out the other stuff.

Originally posted by King Chad Doody
Thanks for the Advice. I Have a Pop Up Blocker but i will try out the other stuff.


I'm glad I could help. :)

Can go ahead and add spyware scan on that list

Originally posted by AAOT
Can go ahead and add spyware scan on that list



Good looking out!!! :)

Happens to me all the time. I usually have to do Ctrl Alt Delete. I have no idea how to stop it or why its happening, but I really hate it.

Originally posted by King TheFonz
Happens to me all the time. I usually have to do Ctrl Alt Delete. I have no idea how to stop it or why its happening, but I really hate it.

Well have you scanned for spyware lately? Virus checks lately?

Originally posted by AAOT
Well have you scanned for spyware lately? Virus checks lately?

I Did not too long ago but i guess its time i try again. Thanks.

Originally posted by King TheFonz
Happens to me all the time. I usually have to do Ctrl Alt Delete. I have no idea how to stop it or why its happening, but I really hate it.

Annoying isnt it? :lol:

Originally posted by AAOT
Well have you scanned for spyware lately? Virus checks lately?

Yeah I do alot. I havent spyware checked lately
, I'll do that ASAP.

Originally posted by King Chad Doody
Annoying isnt it? :lol:

Very :lol:

Originally posted by King TheFonz
Happens to me all the time. I usually have to do Ctrl Alt Delete. I have no idea how to stop it or why its happening, but I really hate it.


Yeah, I have this problem sometimes too. I also do the alt ctrl delete thing. That stops it. Just curious........... do you have Windows XP? I do and I wonder if it is X P doing this? What do you think?:confused:

I have Norton Systems Antivirus installed and nothing ever shows up. So I don't think it's a virus.

Originally posted by Penny Lane
Yeah, I have this problem sometimes too. I also do the alt ctrl delete thing. That stops it. Just curious........... do you have Windows XP? I do and I wonder if it is X P doing this? What do you think?:confused:

I have Norton Systems Antivirus installed and nothing ever shows up. So I don't think it's a virus. I have XP. Every so often itll happen.. its seriously like 40 blank page pop ups attacking me. This actually happened the other day. I try the CTRL ALT DL thing, but its easier for me to just X out each box. I go fast enough and manage to get them all.

Originally posted by Penny Lane
Yeah, I have this problem sometimes too. I also do the alt ctrl delete thing. That stops it. Just curious........... do you have Windows XP? I do and I wonder if it is X P doing this? What do you think?:confused:

I have Norton Systems Antivirus installed and nothing ever shows up. So I don't think it's a virus.

I have Windows ME. Must just be a bug.:lol:

:cuss: It just did it again. I had gotten disconnected, then SO window got all crazy and started flashing going to all these sites. The other window did it too. Then, I logged back on, and like 7478932 windows popped up. Mother :grady:

I had that problem.

I also had a WJView error (from Limewire) that would come up everytime I started Windows XP. It screws up your PC like you wouldn't believe. I went to Limewire support to get rid of it.

I also downloaded Ad-Aware from www.lavasoft.com to get rid of any spyware. Now it just finds tracking cookies.

I also make sure my virus scanner is up to date and scan for viruses often. My firewall also does a good job blocking them. (People attempt to give my PC Kuang2TheVirus several times daily)

Clean temporary internet files often.

Run scandisk and disk defragmenter.

I never had anymore problems.

If your pop up killer isn't that great, I suggest http://panicware.com/product_psfree.html, you get a free version of a REALLY great pop up killer, Pop Up Stopper. I've been using it since 2000 and love it!

Originally posted by Blair_Warner02
(People attempt to give my PC Kuang2TheVirus several times daily)



Is that using Port 17300? If not what port?

Originally posted by King TheFonz
I have Windows ME. Must just be a bug.:lol:

I Have Windows ME Too, Must be.

Originally posted by AAOT
Is that using Port 17300? If not what port?

yes it is port 17300

Originally posted by Blair_Warner02
yes it is port 17300

Yea i get those blocked sometimes, you using Sygate? However It might just be a scan to see if you have it so the person could connect to it and find info about you...

Originally posted by AAOT
Yea i get those blocked sometimes, you using Sygate? However It might just be a scan to see if you have it so the person could connect to it and find info about you...

No I am using McAfee Personal Firewall. All attempts get blocked by the firewall and I can report them/ban IP's/etc.

Originally posted by Blair_Warner02
No I am using McAfee Personal Firewall. All attempts get blocked by the firewall and I can report them/ban IP's/etc.



Oh ok... go to www.grc.com


they have a test to test your firewall to make sure its blocking the big ports used by hackers...

Originally posted by AAOT
Oh ok... go to www.grc.com


they have a test to test your firewall to make sure its blocking the big ports used by hackers...

My firewall told me it was a trojan and automatically blocked it.

Did u try the sheilds up port scanner?

It passed the majority of the test.

Solicited TCP Packets is the only thing that failed under Common Ports.

Under file sharing it could only establish a connection but couldn't find any ports.

Under All service ports all of the squares are green except for the first two which are blue.

I spammed myself but i'm not sure if it did anything.

oh ok, good to see you are concerned about your security.. have you tried spybot?

Originally posted by AAOT
oh ok, good to see you are concerned about your security.. have you tried spybot?

No I have Ad-Aware and I just cleaned out all of that junk today.

SheildsUp sent me a lot of trojans which were all blocked by the firewall. The firewall does not trust SheildsUP. Were talking over 5000 events.

Originally posted by Blair_Warner02
No I have Ad-Aware and I just cleaned out all of that junk today.

SheildsUp sent me a lot of trojans which were all blocked by the firewall. The firewall does not trust SheildsUP. Were talking over 5000 events.






Trojans are programs put on your computer like viruses... acting like a legit program but doing bad things... All that the SheildsUp sends is a request to see if those ports respond or not... Its good that your firewall didn't trust Sheildsup, SheildsUp is just a test to see if the ports will respond or not... If it was going to trust Sheildup's Port scans... then it may trust hackers... Thank god that it blocked there attempts :)

Originally posted by AAOT
Trojans are programs put on your computer like viruses... acting like a legit program but doing bad things... All that the SheildsUp sends is a request to see if those ports respond or not... Its good that your firewall didn't trust Sheildsup, SheildsUp is just a test to see if the ports will respond or not... If it was going to trust Sheildup's Port scans... then it may trust hackers... Thank god that it blocked there attempts :)

Yeah I am on Tight Security right now (Kinda like an Orange terror alert) any higher up it would be lockdown (kinda like a Red terror alert)

Originally posted by Blair_Warner02
Yeah I am on Tight Security right now (Kinda like an Orange terror alert) any higher up it would be lockdown (kinda like a Red terror alert)


Oh ok

I like it, it does a good job.

Originally posted by Blair_Warner02
I like it, it does a good job.


Cool :)


Yea i use Sygate for Firewall, Norton for anti virus, and ad-aware and spybot for spyware removal...

I use McAfee for Firewall, Virus Scanning and they have a Privacy Service which basically blocks Spyware (only if you're not downloading a program) and Cookies (only if you want to reject them) and best of all it's password protected so no one can get online if they didn't get permission to use my computer (I have my own)

The other computer that the rest of the family uses runs extremely slow (probably spyware) and uses Norton for Virus scanning. As far as I know there is no firewall on it. Someday I'll get around to trying to remove all the spyware.

That sucks... nope sorry. my computer is working normally.

Originally posted by Blair_Warner02
I use McAfee for Firewall, Virus Scanning and they have a Privacy Service which basically blocks Spyware (only if you're not downloading a program) and Cookies (only if you want to reject them) and best of all it's password protected so no one can get online if they didn't get permission to use my computer (I have my own)

The other computer that the rest of the family uses runs extremely slow (probably spyware) and uses Norton for Virus scanning. As far as I know there is no firewall on it. Someday I'll get around to trying to remove all the spyware.



Yea I remember when I first spyware scanned the other comp... like 100 spyware components... so much junk...

Originally posted by AAOT
Yea I remember when I first spyware scanned the other comp... like 100 spyware components... so much junk...

When I first did mine there were like 180.

Originally posted by Blair_Warner02
When I first did mine there were like 180.


Damn...