PAUL said:
DOES ANYONE KNOW WHY WE ARE GETTING THESE ANNOYING POPUPS
AND ARE TOLD BY VENDORS THAT IT IS DUE TO A FLAW IN THE
WINDOWS PROGRAM? IS MICROSOFT GETTING PAID FROM THESE
VENDORS FOR THE ADS?
Kindly post in UPPER and lowercase. Thanks.
The ads are not generated by MS, but your XP settings may be enabling them...
If these are "Messenger" pop-ups, they can be banished by enabling the XP
built-in firewall (which should be done anyway). See HELP & SUPPORT for
easy instructions.
If this is a program that has been inadvertently installed on your PC,
running ADAware may enable its removal.
http://www.lavasoftusa.com
Read the instructions, download, install and run the program. The basic
utility is free.
If the pop-ups are site-related - the page that is being visited - then a
pop-up blocker may help.
http://google.com Search for "ad blocker".
Or install and use a new-generation browser that has pop-up blocking,
such as NetScape "streamline Navigator only" from
http://sillydog.org/narchive
It will selectively block pop-ups and images, and is much more customizable
than I.E. For more...
sis the newgroup.
Or visit
http://mozilla.org for links to browsers using similar technology.
