Close window Get a gleaming machine. Cruising the internet can do weird stuff to your machine. Dodgy sites contain code which will flood your screen with pop ups. Some will continue to pop up even when u've closed the site. The trick with Popups is to close them using the Cross button, because clicking onto them could link you to another popup: ...and if u want to avoid the nasty stuff: Don't run programs on strange websites Don't visit dodgy sites on purpose I can't close a pop up! What should I do? Some pop-ups are stubborn. If they wont close the normal way... Is a program causing these pop ups? Yes. Spyware and Adware cause pop ups. If you'd like to learn more about these gremlins and ways that u can clean them from your system... How do I delete evidence of pop ups and sites? Your computer stores info of where u've been on the internet in a temporary memory. Sometimes a site will plant a cookie on your machine that will self-load pop ups onto your machine. Cookies and temporary memory are quite simple to delete...