I keep getting advertising web sites popping up on my desktop when I'm not even on the internet, same sites paddypower and something else. how do i get rid of them
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Congratulations! You have spyware, and likely a virus that put it there. Download AdAware and AVG, run them both repeatedly until they come up clean.
ThatGuyTed
Running Spybot or a similar program should go a long way in getting rid of the cookies and trojan programs that are causing them.
Ditto
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