Pop-ups

So, I was at a torrent site recently, and the page loaded a little slowly and I accidently clicked on one of the links on the page and it downloaded and installed a whole bunch of shitware that causes pop-ups every 3 minutes.

I'm using Naviscope right now, but they still come through and interrupt me.

Anyone have any other suggested blockers because I don't want to reformat right now.

What does Linux have to do with this? A properly secured Windows XP machine is probably a lot more secure than a backwater Linux hackup by some kids. How do you know your machine isn't being accessed remotely through a flaw in the distro that was never discovered because no one uses that distro or checks its code? The threadmaker is using an insecure browser as they said, this has absolutely nothing to do with the OS. And now for the dead horse: Linux is not secure, it is obscure.