Thanks to those who tried to help.

I feel I need to explain why I thought spybot would "block" stuff:

When I installed spybot and activated the blocking, when I used IE, sporradically an alert would apear telling me spybot blocked gator or some other thing. When I got firefox, I stopped using IE. When using firefox, there was no such alert. And when I scanned with spybot later on, I had spyware. So, I assumed it's not working with firefox.

Granted it could be something else......

But I truly resent that guy, what was the name...."a morning chill"? That said I was getting that from clicking yes on popups??.....

COME ON MAN!!! jeez, I'm a newb, but I really take that as an insult, seriously. "OH, oh, I MUST need to install whatever this alert says to view this site, so I MUST click yes and download it....oh oh"

So, like I said before, thanks to you guys who tried to help....and not make themselves out to be a computer mentor cuz they know how to avoid a pop-up.