Can't stop this...HELP!!!

[dreamer]

I have tried to get answers but they are not helping. I tried a file that
apparently will stop this installer from trying to load. But it doesn't
work. PLEASE HELP ME

I go onto websites and all of a sudden the bar at the top says it blocked a
pop-up (Windows XP Pro SP2...legit), then this pop-up comes up saying
....installing. I have to stop it at least 5 times before it goes away for a
while and returns again. It says to insert Windows 2000 Office CD, which I
don't have it and never did. I have Office 2003 (legit) and when I place the
CD in, it says can't find the file.

Please can someone help with what I can do...please?

I use Outlook Express 6.x
Windows XP Pro SP2
Office 2003

dreamer

 

[Daniel Crichton]

dreamer wrote on Tue, 01 Aug 2006 00:48:10 GMT:

I have tried to get answers but they are not helping. I tried a file that
apparently will stop this installer from trying to load. But it doesn't
work. PLEASE HELP ME

I go onto websites and all of a sudden the bar at the top says it blocked
a pop-up (Windows XP Pro SP2...legit), then this pop-up comes up saying
...installing. I have to stop it at least 5 times before it goes away for
a while and returns again. It says to insert Windows 2000 Office CD, which
I don't have it and never did. I have Office 2003 (legit) and when I place
the CD in, it says can't find the file.

Please can someone help with what I can do...please?

I use Outlook Express 6.x
Windows XP Pro SP2
Office 2003

Sounds like you have Frontpage 2000 installed, and the popup that's sneaking
past the XP popup blocker has something in it (probably an XML DTD that
references Office) that causes IE to want to install something from the
Frontpage 2000 CD. I used to get it regularly myself (FrontPage 2000
installed as well as Office XP), inserting the FP2000 CD cured it.

Dan

 

[dreamer]

After trying everything, I thank you for helping me and the solution worked.
I had thought that I had FrontPage 2003, but it wasn't included in my
package. So I rummaged through the basement to find my FrontPage 2000 CD.
Popped it in and voila, everything is fine.

Thanks very much!

dreamer

 

[Daniel Crichton]

dreamer wrote on Tue, 01 Aug 2006 21:55:06 GMT:

After trying everything, I thank you for helping me and the solution
worked. I had thought that I had FrontPage 2003, but it wasn't included in
my package. So I rummaged through the basement to find my FrontPage 2000
CD. Popped it in and voila, everything is fine.

Thanks very much!

Glad to have been of help. I still haven't worked out what causes it,
something in the popup content (and I only ever noticed it on badly
formatted popups with Flash objects in them) makes the Office/FP installer
decide that a required FP optional part isn't installed, and so pops up the
Office/FP installer box - and in doing so, causes the popup to appear
bypassing the IE popup blocker. Now you've got that optional part of FP
installed you should find that the popups don't appear any more.

Dan