I'm honestly not good with technology at all, and I have no idea what websites to trust. Lately I've been getting a lot of click pop-ups. I'll click something, but something else in another tab/window will open. I've checked my basic settings and it has pop-ups blocked for all sites. My computer is relatively new. About two months old, it's an HP Pavilion.

TL;DR: Does anyone know a way to prevent pop-ups?  

Adwcleaner  

Your browser could be hijacked. Run malwarebytes and such.  

Run Adwcleaner:

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/adwcleaner/  

Posted by Dusty

Your browser could be hijacked. Run malwarebytes and such.

Posted by fp4

Run Adwcleaner:

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/adwcleaner/

Thank you very much. Didn't know what programs to trust and these seemed to work.


On the other hand, this annoying little window now pops up whenever I restart my PC. Is there a way to get rid of it? If not it's easily something I can live with but it'd be easier without  

Posted by Fae

Thank you very much. Didn't know what programs to trust and these seemed to work.


On the other hand, this annoying little window now pops up whenever I restart my PC. Is there a way to get rid of it? If not it's easily something I can live with but it'd be easier without

Looks like you have an executable file trying to load a library known as StyleFollow.dll. A quick google search returns nothing when I try to search for "Style Follow", so I'd try removing the program if possible, unless you know what it is.  

Posted by The Doctor

Looks like you have an executable file trying to load a library known as StyleFollow.dll. A quick google search returns nothing when I try to search for "Style Follow", so I'd try removing the program if possible, unless you know what it is.

Style Follow is the program that produced the pop ups. I can't find it in any of my files or search it as a program. It could be a Trojan, but I though malwarebytes removed everything. I'll look into it a bit more and see if I can find anything more on it.  

Fun fact: the man who made pop-up ads apologized for making the world's most hated form of advertisement.  

Posted by optimuswhat

Fun fact: the man who made pop-up ads apologized for making the world's most hated form of advertisement.

GOOD.  

Posted by Fae

Style Follow is the program that produced the pop ups. I can't find it in any of my files or search it as a program. It could be a Trojan, but I though malwarebytes removed everything. I'll look into it a bit more and see if I can find anything more on it.

The program appears to be uninstalled. I suggest just deleting the folder where Style Follow is and removing it from your windows startup folder.  

Assuming this happens when you log onto your pc...

Press Windows+R and type "msconfig." Go to the Startup tab(at this point it may tell you to do so via Task Manager. If it does just right click your task bar and open Task Manager and go to the startup tab). Look for StyleFollow.dll and if you find it uncheck it.  

Download autoruns:

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/.../bb963902.aspx

Find the 'stylefollow.dll' in the list that the program will make (it should be red) and just delete it.  

Delete system32 and SysWOW64  

Posted by Thallen

Delete system32 and SysWOW64

tested, worked for me, thanks a ton!

+rep  

Posted by Thallen

Delete system32 and SysWOW64

Never knew I had a virus, my pc runs much faster now.