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  • From: Dan Smith <anilorac AT nc.rr.com>
  • To: info AT mindbenderstudios.com, "Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
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  • Subject: Re: [internetworkers] RE: InterNetWorkers Digest, Vol 4, Issue 8
  • Date: Fri, 09 May 2003 09:13:30 -0400

I agree by first deactivating the messenger service, but it sounds like you may have a trojan program, probably distributed with shareware you installed.
You can always open your task manager to determine the running service, which may help you trace what you need to uninstall.

Apart from that, Netscape 7 includes a preferences feature that blocks pop ups, and is found under Privacy and Security. That eliminates the browsng need for 3rd party anti-pop up software. Mozilla and IE do not yet include this feature.


Steve Steele wrote:

I'M IN POP UP HELL!
You ever watch one of those national geographic shows
where the whale is cruising through the ocean with all of those suckerfish hanging on? We'll that's how I feel, except the suckerfish are bigger than me. Managing the pop-ups and spam is proving too much to ignore so I have to address this slow death and clean house and I need some advice.

Even when my browser is closed I get pop up ads.
I don't want to add the software that kills all pop ups, just this latest install that is causing this barrage of new ads.

Any advice on how to locate the file that is enabling
these pop ups?

Also, In the same week I have had 4 additional strips
appear under my browser toolbar with links to shopping
and gambling. Although I can uncheck them so they are not viewable, I am concerned that they are, one passing
personal info to some little brother agency or two the cause of the pop-ups.
Can anyone point me to recourse that will show me how to get rid of them?

Thanks
Steve


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