How Do I Get Rid Of Annoying Advertisements ?

[August !]

theres annoying advertisements and pop ups that keep popping up on Facebook , youtube , and my yahoo home page it makes my laptop go Super Slow !! because everytime i click Home on my facebook page it takes forever because it has to wait for all the pop ups and advertisements to load and it takes a very long time ! im not sure if i have a virus because i bought the full version of Mcafee and it says im protected but i just want these pop ups and advertisements gone HELP PLEASE!

[Denny]

You can also get the firefox web browser and install the adblocker addon on firefox.

[H_Dickory_Dock]

Your computer is infected.

Did you run a full-system manual scan with McAfee right after you installed it?

McAfee cannot detect and remove existing virus and malware unless you specifically perform a manual scan with it.

Quarantine whatever it finds.

Good luck.

[Dunbar Pappy ÏŸÏŸ]

These annoyances are not necessarily malicious. Browsers come with built-in looseness that advertising vultures take advantage of, unless you confine what it automatically 'fetches'.

Try "MalwareBytes" to start cleaning up your system:
http://www.malwarebytes.org/
(free version has no "real-time" shield)

Browser 'pop-up blockers' are lightweight, paper thin defenses and advertisers (legit & malware purveyors) know how to get by those very easily. Users must boost their own defenses these days.
Get Firefox as your default browser & use it for everyday surfing; fall back to iE only for "last resort" viewing of substandard websites & Windows updates.
The following tips help, but methods (vectors) constantly change.
FIREFOX: Tools> Options> Privacy> top drop menu set to "Firefox will use custom settings..."> Check 'Accept Cookies from sites'
â–ºUn-Check 'Accept 3rd Party cookies'.

A good collection of effective add-on's (Official Mozilla) is here:
https://addons.mozilla.org/collections/d...nbarpappy/
"AdBlock Plus" & "Better Privacy" also help defray rubbish.
►► At minimum, get the #1 item for malware prevention: NoScript, which constrains automagically fetching & deployment of tainted assets.
[see this page for how it works, and how to use it...very simple; http://noscript.net/features#contentblocking

CHROME> wrench icon> Preferences> Under the hood> Content settings> Cookies (heading): tick "Allow local data..." & "Ignore exceptions and block 3rd party..."> close tab.
AdBlock plus available. See Add-on's for Chrome.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/search?q=ad+block
"NotScript" performs well also, but is a bit of a bugger to configure.
http://www.ghacks.net/2010/08/18/notscri...le-chrome/

INTERNET EXPLORER does not handle 3rd party assets very well (or anything else) and won't give nearly the control as Firefox or Chrome: it is garbage. Use at your own risk.

And, get this installed: â–º"HOSTS file" (from mvps.org) which blocks evil webpage assets from re-directs which install malware or trashware. (Vista requires special instructions; on-page link)
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm
SpywareBlaster (snoopware prevention and hostfile guardian); http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html