RE: Pop Up Ads on StartUp

I am not sure which of these to try. These ads come up even when I am not
running Internet Explorer but don't seem to come up when I don't have Windows
Messenger running. Is there any way I can stop Messenger from loading on
startup? I have tried to take it out of the startup sequence when running
msconfig but it seems to keep puttin itself back in there. There is also
another suspicious startup file (c:\windows\system32\elitejgk32.exe) even
though there is no file of this name within that directory. I also cannot
get rid of this from the startup as it keeps coming back.

The ads themselves look like a small internet window and it is always the
same cycle of ads showing up.

I already have Ad-Aware SE and Spybot and this has not fixed it although
Spybot did find some things that Ad-Aware did not.

I hope you can help. I am starting to get the feeling that I am going to
have to reload everything from scratch....

Jo

"jostubbs" wrote:

> I am getting Pop Up ads when I boot my computer and these ads run through
> Internet Explorer. As soon as I close one down another pops up and I have
> had up to 4 or 5 before I don't get any more. I have read some posts about
> this being from Messenger but I am not logged in to Messenger when I get them
> (although it is running in the background). I have updated Norton and
> Adaware SE but neither of these pck up my problem. I also have ZoneLabs Zone
> Alarm installed.
>
> Can anyone help me?
> Joanne
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