ercwinslowjns :
I have a Compaq Presario V2000 running Windows 8.1 enterprise and recently changed it to what I thought was an update and now I get more pop ups , it's much slower almost to the point where I cannot use, it's just that slow and it's needing to recover almost every other thing that I try to place on the internet, for example this took at least a half hour to get to where I am now please reach out team.
download malwarebytes, adwcleaner, and maybe rkill...
run them in this order -
rkill
malwarbytes
reboot
adwcleaner
should be good to go. though if you installed any "borderline" software that brought that stuff into your system and you don't uninstall it, it will probably keep loading that stuff onto your system. Any toolbars? any webgaming aps? any "freeware"? those are the types of things that this stuff comes in with... most torrent browsers will do this as well.