Cleaning up potentially harmful files

Is there a way to clean potentially harmful files and if so how can I find them and delete them? Im having several issue with pop ups which were not pprevelent before. AnNy suggestions??

What kind of harmful files are you talking about here? If you're referring to viruses, see my [Mac Virus guide|http://www.reedcorner.net/thomas/guides/macvirus>. You'll note that there are no Mac viruses, only a few trojans, which you must download, run and provide an admin password to.
I'm not sure what kind of popup issues you're having, as you didn't specify, but sometimes popups can get past popup blockers. I have Safari's popup blockers on, but I now and then find "pop-unders" lurking behind the browser window anyway. This is not malware.
Of course, you could be having DNS redirects, but from your description I have no way of knowing whether this is likely. There's information on redirects in the "Do I have a virus?" section of the guide.

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Revision: 3214
Author: [email protected]
Date: 2008-09-15 15:48:27 -0700 (Mon, 15 Sep 2008)
Log Message:
Make sure we clean up all the files that javacc generates.
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