If you have noticed a steady increase in Pop Ups over the past few years, you are not alone. Pop Ups are very annoying. In many cases they disrupt and interfere with your productivity. Even when you go to your bank’s web site you start typing your username and a pop up occurs. Now the cursor is no longer in the login window. How about when you are in a middle of a Word document and a pop up occurs throwing your train of thought. Lately Pop Ups have become a concern to all computer professionals. You may have experienced pop ups occurring even when your browser isn’t even open. Has this happened to you? This happens because a program (SPYWARE) has been downloaded behind the scenes and has launched a pop up program that runs on startup.

At some point during the use of the internet this program was downloaded either by clicking content of a previous pop up or opening an attachment from your e-mail that you believed was legitimate. These programs cause a script to run that pulls advertisements from the internet. When the pop ups occur they take precedence when you are in the middle of typing a document. There are several solutions to this issue:

• Spyware Removal Tools
  
  
• A company wide computer use policy.
  
  
• Pop Up blocker programs. (Many of them are free and effective)
  
  
• Restrict Access to inappropriate web sites
  
  
• Patches and security updates to you computer system
  

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Connection Problems

Desktop Changes/Slow Computer

Increased Number of Icons

Network Connections Problems

Pop-Ups

Viruses

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