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There has to be a way to get rid of it. My dh is asleep or he could tell you. Please get somekind of virus protection on you
computer or you'll get something (being on line) worse than that little face.

Flo in COLD NNY

Try to run your scan as an administrator. My web search is annoying. I took me quite a while to get my web search off until spybot told me to run as administrator. It is a free download. I learned never to click on any smiley faces. Hope this helps.

I never get pop ups, are they advertisements?

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Originally Posted by GrammaBabs

YES..... have to go off and then back on, from my e-mail notification... how does this happen...??? anyone know?

Would it help to remove cookies?

So far no faces here. Thankfully! I think my avatar ate them!!

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Originally Posted by Floralfab

Does anyone else this annoying pop up that's called My Web Face. It says you can make a cartoon of your face and it's free you just have to click. I was getting it a lot when I first joined this board and they luckly it went away. Today it is back with a vengence and it's a pain in the neck and impossible to get rid of. I barely get to read one discussion and there it is showing it's ugly face again and again and again. Please help. I do have an antivirus and pop up blocker on my computer and this is the only site that this is happening on. :-(

If you don't have these programs, download them (they are freeware) and run a FULL scan with Malwarebytes.
Then run CCleaner.
Best I have found so far!!

Malwarebytes Anti-malware (Free Version):
http://www.malwarebytes.org/

CCleaner (right side of screen by green download arrow:
http://www.filehippo.com/download_ccleaner/

You should see a difference in speed after running these also.

Another thing...
Don't know what version of windows you run (I have Win XP)
If you click on "TOOLS" up in your browser. In the list of items there should be one that says "POP UP BLOCKER"
Scroll down to it & make sure it is turned ON.

I beleive there is a place in the computer where you can block pop-ups from happening, but I'm no guru - just go by what my sevice tech told me.... but it helped with NO pop-ups at all on any site I get into! Lovely!

I thought it was just me that was receiving these annoying pop-ups. You have to keep clicking on it to close it. If everyone is getting them it must be on the board site. Hope they can find a way to fix it.

Joanne

I don't get any pop ups!