A few days ago ads and various other popups began deluging me when I use FunTrivia. My Gold Membership is still valid and displayed. I assume it is something that I did to bring this on. Just before this started I did an update of Adobe Flash. The ads don't come up in other sites that I use (Facebook, Wikipedia, etc.) There is color accent and underlining in FT and these cause popups. Going from page to page causes new tabs with ad sites to open.

The Norton AV Suite has not stopped this.

One obvious thing that I have no tried is to reupdate the Adobe Flash.

Any suggestions on how to stop the ads?

Check your add/remove programs first...many times this is a program that installs itself and doesn't appear to be malware. See if there are any recent programs installed (depending on your operating system, you can sort by add date).

You can also try Malwarebytes Anti-Malware. it's a free program and very good. If the ad server isn't showed as a newly installed program, this might be your best bet.

http://www.malwarebytes.org/products/malwarebytes_free/

It's unlikely that it is something do to with Flash, but it may have kicked in when you restarted your browser after a Flash update. Did you update flash directly from the Adobe site? The underling of text leads me to believe this is a program that has installed, that I mentioned in my first paragraph.

What browser are you using?

Thank you. I evidently missed read a date when I looked through the program list originally before posting here. A second check made it obvious. I removed the offending program (RemarkIt) and the popups are gone. Firefox still brings up some search engine called Nation Zoom at various times. That action started with the popups. The date on the latest Mozilla update is back in mid-November, much earlier than this new tab action. I still have no idea how the popup program got installed.

The Adobe update was a download from what certainly appeared to be the Adobe site, but I didn't look at the URL at the time.

Is there any way to get rid of the Nation Zoom tabs in FireFox?

Looks like Nation Zoom is a bit more difficult to remove.

Full removal instructions are here:

http://www.pcinfected.com/nation-zoom-removal/

There are some preliminary ways to try and remove it here, but I'd probably take the time to go through the link above. Mozilla support forum topic here:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/979087

Nation Zoom is a browser hijacker. I would suggest that you google for "Nation Zoom Firefox" and look at the advice given by Mozilla.

A bit old, but -- did a popup window request you to do an update of Adobe? Those are viruses/spam, I know because I've seen them quite a few times myself. Real Adobe will bring up a little computer popup if it wants to update.