Expert: James Filmer - 1/9/2010

Question
I wasn't allowed to ask another follow-up question, so here is in response to your last answer...
I went to the 2 posts. The first one suggested downloading CookiesWall, which I did, but adserver5.com is still getting through without a way to preserve deletion with the cookies wall.
The second post suggested two links that no longer exist. One was for instructions on how to adjust Hosts. The other was to another post which no longer exists.
I use Firefox, but have IE available which is what the popups show in even when having Firefox open and not IE. They definitely come through IE not Firefox.
I enabled Spybot's immunization as you suggested along with all of the other instructions I have found by googling and through you here.
"To further restrict 3rd party cookies for control of pops and ads in IE go to Tools>Internet Options>Advanced>Override automatic...Accept First-Party Cookies>Check Always allow session cookies and Block or Prompt 3rd party cookies."--I went there and nothing referring to cookies was listed. However, I saw Enable third-party browser extensions--I unchecked that, rebooted, and still get them.
Even if these are not considered malicious they are to me...they interrupt what I'm doing and sometimes freeze what I'm trying to access because they are downloading. Some of them also play music and/or start talking to me about health items, etc.
I am up to try anything else if you have more suggestions.
Thanks for your time...I really appreciate your help.

Answer
Thanks for letting me know about continuing on another forum Deb, but I disagree about the knowledge rating. I reviewed all the my answers and didn't find any inaccuracies.

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If you're not getting anything in updated scans - Spybot, malwarebytes, superantispyware, windows defender ad-aware, you may still have spyware (though it's becoming less of a possibility).

Let's go to Fx, Tools > Options Uncheck Java
Check Enable Javascript.
Then go to Javascript Advanced and Uncheck All boxes.

I don't accept 3rd party cookies in Fx or IE, but if you do, you'll probably have to accept some popups.  

In Fx, Accept cookies and Keep until: Ask me every time.
Once you've accepted a session cookie from site, you can visit anytime without checking again.

If you're talking about disabling 3td party browser extensions in IE, you may or may not want to do that. Do you use any extensions or toolbars? What IE version are you using?

You Want to Enable party extensions in Fx.

As far as CookieWall, haven't used it but it appears safe and reliable. I'm more familiar with the various Fx cookie addons like CookieSafe. In that one (and others) you can block all cookies from adserver5.com or any other domain.

Check - Block pop and Load images. If using Spybot Immunization tool correctly, you've got lots of passive protection (see Block Popups - Advanced, and Allow Cookies - Advanced - for domains and their cookies preemptively blocked by Spybot immunization). Make sure that the 15-20,000 Passive Protection items are really blocked - or 0 unprotected. These are automatically inserted IE and Fx.

Since Cookies in IE is something that must be dealt with when you use IE, you'll need to find the Advanced options. Maybe one of these posts will help you find it: http://www.aboutcookies.org/Default.aspx?page=1
or http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-vista/Change-Internet-Explorer-Privac...
If not, what's your IE version? If you mentioned that already in an earlier post, just refresh my memory since it's not in your latest post.

You might review this post too: http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/topic138536.html However, not suggesting you do anything you haven't already done.

Keep in mind that IE and Fx are completely separate. Though IE may continue to allow adserver until you find and configure Cookies and or manually block it (you can do that in IE), Fx can definitely be configured to block them, even manually - like adding adserver5.com to the Cookies Exceptions list as a Blocked domain.