Pop Ups giving Internet Explorer a virus

anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com
Date: 12/19/03 

Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 07:27:24 -0800

I recently downloaded Smiley Central. Ever since there
are several pop up ads that won't go away. They prevent
me from using Internet Explorer now. I can't even get it
to come up. One of the pop ups was selling a product to
get rid of pop up ads, and they even made my Disk door
open up on my computer. It said it was selling something
to prevent spyware. Now when I try to open Internet
Explorer, the ad is all I see. It also makes my computer
freeze. What should I do? I can't open up Explorer
without seeing that ad and without my computer freezing.
This is bullying people to buy their product and I really
resent it.