anti-spyware popups?

i keep getting anti-spyware popups and from windows(my computer) and from online. i deleted my history and cookies, but these still come up. it says i have a trojan.
is there a free way to clean my laptop of this trojan?
how do i stop these virus protection popups?

Sounds like you have some Adware. First, NEVER accept advice from a program that installed itself on your machine without even asking you.

If you have an anti-virus, I suggest you make sure it has the latest virus definitions and run it. If you don’t have one, many people here swear by AVG (it’s free).

I also suggest you download Ad-Aware SE and Spybot S&D (they’re free), install them, update them and run them. If any of the above don’t seem to be able to get rid of everything it reports finding, try running it again, this time in Safe Mode. Safe Mode often prevents the malware from running and protecting itself.

Also, turn off System Restore to evict any copies of bad stuff that might be lurking there.

To get into Safe Mode:

1.Log out and reboot your machine.
2.When the machine starts the reboot sequence, press the F8 key repeatedly.
3.Select Safe Mode from the resulting menu.
4.The machine will continue booting, but the Windows desktop will look different. You won’t be able to see the Internet, for instance. Log in as Administrator. Administrator often has no password.
5.When you’re finished, log out and reboot back into normal mode.

Update and run them all regularly.

Good luck.

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