Well, now I'm paying the price for using IE.  Despite having Microsoft Anti-Spyware, Ad Aware, Spyboy and Yahoo Anti-Spy, with both Microsoft and Spybot having monitoring systems on, Spyware is now regurlarly getting on my system.  What get's on my nerves the most, is for some reason I can't open more than one browser window anymore, but pop ups can certaintly open their own.  Sometimes though, I will be browsing, and a pop-up will replace my window with no option of going back in history!

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Help!

Give Firefox a try. You can run Firefox and IE6 and use whichever you want as a default browser.

Well, I went ahead and got Firefox, and it's great!  AT first I was bit put off by how ugly the icons were, but I discovered themes!  So a good looking browser with, more impotantly, good functionality.

But IE still pops up out of the blue with the infernal pop-ups, so I adjusted IEs settings to the absolute maximum.  The problem here, is this is just spackling over the pavement when there's a cavernous hole underneath.

I think there's an "agent" on my computer that calls upon pop-ups, and that all the anti-virus and anti spyware are missing it.