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In reply to the discussion: I'VE HAD IT! Website programmers are morons. Website owners are greedy morons. [View all]Warpy
(114,521 posts)and some of it gets past ironclad antivirus software. Best thing is to go through your program list, find out what stuff you don't recognize is, and delete anything you find out to be adware. Just search the name to find out what it is before you shitcan it.
Malwarebytes specializes in adware, so download it and run it, also.
Ghostery is an excellent stand alone or Firefox add on that can stop websites from tracking you. You do have to be careful about blocking widgets, some of them allow you to watch videos or listen to audio content. It's easy to unblock them after the fact.
Some of this stuff is getting through because Adobe has been spoofed recently, updating your Flash player correctly but installing a lot of shit on your computer at the same time. That could be how you picked some of the garbage up. I've learned to go to their site to update instead of clicking on their handy dandy popup.
Good luck, you can get the garbage off your computer, it will just take some time to do it.