I purchased Avast last night Profession Edition and have it installed on my computer, however I keep getting the Spyware Pop Ups for other companies telling me I have a Spyware Virus and to update with them and they are locking up my computer. Doesn’t Avast have Spyware and How can I get these Pop Ups to go away? Do I need to do a high pop up blocker on my browser? Please help. Thanks!!
Hi kris2765,
What “other companies” exactly? There are many scam anti-spyware products out there which claim to have found spyware and then ask for money. Sometimes there is no spyware except the scam program itself.
I would suggest you run Rogue Remover and see if it finds anything:
http://www.malwarebytes.org/rogueremover.php
avast! does detect spyware but I would recommend you also use the following. (They are all free for home use and don’t take up any system resources).
AVG Anti-Spyware:
a-Squared Free:
http://www.emsisoft.com/en/software/free/
Ad-Aware:
http://www.download.com/3000-2144-10045910.html
Spybot Search & Destroy:
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html
Internet Explorer has a pop-up blocker if you have XP SP2, otherwise try Firefox or Opera which have built-in pop-up blockers.