Pop-ups and Steam freezing

[Red Spot]

Everything that falls under the 'store' part of Steam trows up 2 pop-ups and than freezes Steam.
Wether I look at a DLC, game, my own account settings, it keeps doing the same.

Started since yesterday and also happens in Edge and IE11. I.o.w. I have no idea wether it is Steam related, but it does prevent me from making purchases, which again makes me believe Steam should care about it since it will cost them.

(I yesterday replied in a similair topic, but for the life of me can not find an option to look at what posts I made. A very normal function on pretty much every forum. In that regard Steam is great at hidding options.)

[Red Spot]

AdwCleaner cleaned it up.
Kinda surprised though. I was under the impression W10 was an upgrade to W7, seems to not be holding up.

In W10:
-Less performance in games
-No significant boost in loadtimes
-Significant slowdown on things W10 does not load by default (networkdrives, usb-sticks and much more)
-Nearly no customization (for the average user, pretty much all that can be done requires registry hacks)
-Signicantly less security than MSE had in W7 (in the years I used it I never had an issue, 2 weeks of W10 and my system is already infected).

[Thatbrownmonster]

But steam store dosen't have pop-ups..you problably have malware

[Red Spot]

I know, but why would it affect Steam so much? Firefox does not suffer from it, Edge and IE11 do.

[Satoru]

Originally posted by Red Spot:

I know, but why would it affect Steam so much? Firefox does not suffer from it, Edge and IE11 do.

Probably because you have an adblocker on Firefox

[codenamePK]

Originally posted by Satoru:

Originally posted by Red Spot:

I know, but why would it affect Steam so much? Firefox does not suffer from it, Edge and IE11 do.

Probably because you have an adblocker on Firefox

So then how do you get an ad blocker for steam

[codenamePK]

Originally posted by Red Spot:

AdwCleaner cleaned it up.
Kinda surprised though. I was under the impression W10 was an upgrade to W7, seems to not be holding up.

In W10:
-Less performance in games
-No significant boost in loadtimes
-Significant slowdown on things W10 does not load by default (networkdrives, usb-sticks and much more)
-Nearly no customization (for the average user, pretty much all that can be done requires registry hacks)
-Signicantly less security than MSE had in W7 (in the years I used it I never had an issue, 2 weeks of W10 and my system is already infected).

I also have the same problem and was wondering what you meant by adwcleaner

[Satoru]

Originally posted by codenamePK:

Originally posted by Satoru:

Probably because you have an adblocker on Firefox

So then how do you get an ad blocker for steam

You dont

You clean the malware on your system

The adblocker simply masks the problem

CLEAN YOUR MALWARE

[Red Spot]

It was malware. I just didnt figure it would be malware when I posted since a few other programs including my AV did not see anything wrong. In the end adwcleaner did find the problem, corrected it and all is fine since, as I mentioned in the 2nd post.

Also, the addblocked comment in the 5th post is ignorance talking ...

CodenamePK, ever heard of something called 'google'? ;)