help me if you can

[Tommy]

Can anyone please tell me how to get rid of these annoying
ads that keep popping up when I use Internet Explorer ! I
would be greatful. Any help or advis please email me
back. Thanks.

 

[Warren C. E. Austin]

Can anyone please tell me how to get rid of these annoying
ads that keep popping up when I use Internet Explorer ! I
would be greatful. Any help or advis please email me
back. Thanks.

Which ads? Are they Internet Explorer "Windows", or are they grey-coloured overlays?

If the latter they are "Windows Messenger Service" advisories which can only be suppressed in Windows 2000 and higher; what was intended as an internal Intranet feature has been taken advantage of by many unscrupulous netizens.

If the former you need to employ the services of one of the many "Pop-up" Windows Blockers widely available everywhere on the net; or better yet abandon Internet Explorer and Outlook Express entirely and move on over to one of the many OpenSource W3C Org compliant Web-browsers and Browser Suites such as Opera and Mozilla/Netscape/FireFox/ThunderBird for Windows, or Camino/Safari for Mac OS X, and similar LeGaleon/Ephiphany/Skipstone/K-Melon/KDE and others for Linux. All of these with the exception of Opera include Pop-up Blockers built in by default.

Warren C. E. Austin
Toronto, Canada

 

[xyz]

Try downloading and running Spy-Bot,
http://safer-networking.org/index.php?page=download
and Ad-Aware
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/adaware.html

 

[nesredep egrob]

Try downloading and running Spy-Bot,
http://safer-networking.org/index.php?page=download
and Ad-Aware
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/adaware.html

Try this: http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm. Bringing the
hosts up todate about every 10 days or so stops you from
having to use spybot. In fact if you go for immunise, it will inform
you that your computer is already fitted up with the latest
protection.

Go to the address and bring down the zip file hosts.zip. Unzip that
straight into WinNT/systems32/drivers/etc. If you have done
it correctly it will tell you that there is already another hosts
there ' do you want to overwrite' - give the OK. Do that once every
10 days or so as they update at about that interval.

If you must connect to a filesharing program you can in dos (run cmd)
copy the present hosts to realhosts and copy the single
liner from the infomation (127.0.0.1 localhost) to hosts. To go
back again copy realhosts to hosts.

This has worked for me for the last 18 months or so and it does keep
most or as far as I am concerned all rubbish at bay.
Additionally I use BlackIce and McAfee and I am connected thoughout
the day.

Now that I have D-Link 504G, I only need McAfee to keep the rubbish at
bay.
hosts is at http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm
and stinger at http://vil.nai.com/vil/stinger/

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