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Originally Posted by Squirter

G' day knowledge,

Go into "GOOGLE" and punch in "anti pop-up software" and the choice is yours....the Ad-Aware software is top hole mate....had it for years with absolutely NO gunge at all....problem with forums is you never know what crap you are going to pick up, so protection is vital.

Cheers mate.

Squirter.

The problem is not necessarily forums. Everyone needs to be careful on what they install on their machine, be it full blown software packages or little utils like browser toolbars that are installed. I'd run Ad-Aware and another program called SpywareBlaster and consider using a browser like Mozilla Firefox or Opera. Now they don't necessarily work for everything as web designers are lazy and do not necessarily cater for the browsers that have better standards than Internet Explorer, some Aussie banks do not cater for it, but they are vastly superior browsers to Internet Explorer.

Basically just be careful what you install. Little tools/utils/applications are notorious for having spyware/adware, but with that being said not all have them as part of their installation.