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I have window vista some how a pop up blocker got installed in my computer now I cant get into some game rooms and I can not receive cam videos from my friends how do I get it out of my computer

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If it is a legitimate one it should be removable from the control panel’s ADD OR REMOVE PROGRAMS. And there should be a button that allows pop ups on a given site. If these are NOT available you may have some type of spyware (similar to a home page hi-jacker). Run Ad-Aware OR SpyBlaster OR Spybot: Search and Destroy All three are good & have free versions available from http://download.cnet.com/windows/ You might even have to run a couple of them as spyware is tricky. I run the 1st and the 3rd one a couple times a month. They will get rid of cookies also, if you want. Then you can put in a good pop-up blocker. I like Google’s. You can designate websites at which it will always allow pop-ups PLUS it has a built in spell checker that I use on this site all the time. Good Luck!!

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