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Are very frustrating. For that reason I am out of here.  
Journeyman mechanic, transmission builder since 1963.

i have a few things that might help you with the pop up ads...


click on this link... or right click on one of the ads... a menu will open...  open the global settings  it will take you to the same place...

find the Website Storage Settings panel..  click on the delete all sites button.. then confirm it..  your computer should get better..    

there are additional copies of these files stored down in your system folder.. its in an invisible folder with invisible files on a PC... so it gets really hard to find them... as i am a mac user.. these files really really really slow down the computer...

in a mac.. the files are stored deep..

users , your computers name.. library. preferences , macromedia, flashplayer, pound sign Sharedobjects.  

there is another file next to the one above.. just a little deeper
users.  your computers name,  library,  preferences, macromedia, flashplayer,  macromedia.com.   support, flashplayer,  sys...    again empty. the files and then empty the trash can..

you won't believe its the same computer ... i had my PC guy make those files visible.. and put short cuts on the various pcs i have laying around but rarely use..   one PC had so many files stored down in these locations.. that it was totally junk.. all i ever got was a spinning wheel..     my dear brother.. (rip) a mac user from 1985.. when i looked at his laptop mac.. it was barely usable.. it had 1200 files in these locations.. it was slower than heck... took forever to start up.. took forever to shut down..   he was so smart.. but would not listen to remove those files..  

you can delete all the files stored there.. i have short cuts on my desk top directly to these folders so i can empty them when ever i need to ..  and i do that at least once a day..



http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager07.html  

PC and mac techs that i have talked to .. said these files don't effect anything..

funny.. when you get your machine back from them.. those files are usually removed and the computer works good for a while.. till it needs another 200 bucks worth of service..

after emptying the files from those folders.. be sure to go back and click the delete all files button again..  that will put a single file back in one of those folders with the proper instructions to make the flash player work properly..  

I don't know why they bother with those ads. I kill them before they even load.