I have something I would really like to share you people. This is geared towards people such as myself who have encountered pop-ups even when you are NOT ON THE INTERNET. Chances are, you have been hijacked. This happened to me several days ago, and I have not been able to figure out the problem until a few minutes ago. If you use Spybot: Search and Destroy, Ad-aware and any Anti-virus software, and they come up negative and you still get pop-ups even when you're not surfing the 'net, you've been screwed by a fairly devious worm/trojan horse/virus/exploit. I honestly can't determine what it was, but it was one of the above. See, if your anti-spyware and anti-virus software come up with nothing bad, and you're still getting pop-ups, a file has been installed into your Windows\system folder that can render it undetectable(not always the case, but in this one it is). This is the main file you want to look for, WINSCV32.EXE. This is NOT a windows system file. Here's proof why. Check out your Task Manager and if it has an entry called "Sys28" or "SysA", it'll show the file that you need to get rid of. It doesn't belong there and you'll want to get rid of it. Unfortunately, this file is a little hard to delete since it's been disguised as Windows system file, which Windows runs automatically when you boot it up and won't let you delete it. Here's how I dealt with the little bastard. See, I run a dual-boot system with Windows 98 and Windows XP. I use 98SE for internet access so it takes most of the pounding from viruses and whatnot and leaves XP alone. Basically, I rebooted into XP and searched the Windows 98 system folder for this file. Unfortunately, I found a bunch of other "system files" that I didn't recognize. Bang! they got deleted too. You'll have to get into the registry and search for ANY entry that contains the key word "SysA" or "Sys28" or ANYTHING like that and DELETE it. Chances are, when you search for that phrase, it'll only come up ONCE. Get rid of it immediately. I did this and when I rebooted, I haven't gotten a pop-up since. I know for a fact that the file I mentioned above, was bogus, because when I rebooted 98, it didn't come up with a message saying that there was an important file missing or corrupted. This is for those who use a dual-boot system like me. But it also gives those who only use ONE operating system, a heads-up as to what to look out for. I don't expect any response to this, but I want people to know what they may be dealing with and how to deal with it. Chances are, most of you people won't experience this, but if you DO, read this thread. It WILL help. I just stumbled on to the solution by accident, and it worked, thankfully.