How can I stop a persistent pop up from "stopmalwaresite" from ruining my browsing sessions. I run adaware and malwarebytes every morning before I do anything else and no malicious objects are found.

Question

This has started only in the past week or so and is so irritating that I am tempted to give up emails altogether.

Answer 1

That type of behaviour is indicative of malware. Try running some other malware scanners, they may pick up things that the ones you have tried miss. Some scanners you can try are:
* [http://www.superantispyware.com/ SUPERAntiSpyware]
* [http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/defender/default.mspx Windows Defender]
* [http://www.safer-networking.org/en/home/index.html Spybot S&D]
If the above malware scanners don't find anything or can't clear it, post in one of these forums for specialized malware removal help:
* http://forums.spybot.info/
* http://www.spywarewarrior.com/index.php
* http://forum.aumha.org/
* http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/
* http://www.spywareinfoforum.com/