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[quote=Anonymous]A couple of things to try:

- Look for adware extensions.  In Google Chrome, go to the stripped bar (upper right) and select "Settings", on the settings page in the upper left, click on "Extensions" and see if there are any adware extensions loaded.  In Firefox, in the upper left, select the "Firefox v" menu and select" "Add-on".  The in the upper left select "Extensions".  Look for any adware extensions and remove.  If you are not sure what the extensions are (you should always kno what extensions you are running), then put the extension name in Google and see what it says.

- Assuming you've cleaned up the extensions and add-ons and you are still getting ads, then run an anti-virus check on your system.  If you don't have one, then download one of the freeware ones like AVG or Microsoft Security Essentials and run a full scan of your system.  It will take time, but you should run one regularly.  Recommended is about once/week, but if that's too hard to do, do it at least once/month.  If you browse the web a lot, you really need to do this more frequently.  Nowadays many sites can load extensions with some unusual acknowledgment buttons that you may or may not recognize.   To make it less time intensive/intrusive for me, I will often run the A/V scan when I'm done with the computer for the night.  I just turn a full scan on and then leave and it will complete the scan while I'm not there.[/quote]

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