I am not sure where I should post this, but I was wondering if anyone can help me with an internet problem.  I was surfing the internet when all of a sudden, tons of pop-ups appeared on my screen   I was able to get rid of them and exit internet explorer, but when I tried to return to my usual homepage, an advertisement came up.  I thought that my homepage setting had simply been changed, but I was wrong.  The advertisement had somehow changed its address to www.yahoo.com, www.google.com, and www.msn.com. ; Now, I can no longer go to these sites because they automatically become the advertisement warning about downloading a program to improve internet privacy ???  I have done nothing out of the ordinary and do not understand where all of this came from.  I am just very frusterated as to how and why this stupid ad was able to rewrite its address to emulate these sites   I cannot thank you enough for any help or advice that you may have concerning this problem.  I just hope that the ad does not spread to any other sites!

Also get Spybot (I found it over at downloads.com), run in conjunction with AdAware, you should be able to keep your system clean.

Ozzy

Try using the updates feature in Spybot and Ad-aware. Maybe the updates have the fix for the other websites 

Regards,
Stratobat