same Pop-up over and over

[Tracy]

I have excite.com as my start up page. When ever I click on a news item, it
comes on the then as quickly the same pop up appears. Cannot delete without
going out of Internet Exployer altogether. Any clues as what to do to prevent.
Thanks

 

[Tracy]

BTW, I have popups checked not to pop-up.

 

[Daave]

What does the popup say?

BTW, I have popups checked not to pop-up.

 

[Malke]

I have excite.com as my start up page. When ever I click on a news item,
it comes on the then as quickly the same pop up appears. Cannot delete
without going out of Internet Exployer altogether. Any clues as what to do
to prevent. Thanks

You left out the very important information about what popup pops up!
Excite.com is notorious for being ad and popup-laden so it is no surprise
that something on their site is getting through. However, without knowing
what the popup is I can't guess whether this is just Excite.com's normally
invasive behavior or your computer is infected.

In the meantime, install the Firefox browser - which also has a popup
blocker - and see if the same problem occurs. If it doesn't and you still
want to use Excite.com (obviously not recommended by me), then use Firefox
instead of IE.

Malke

 

[Tracy]

The popup is http://www.yourtopbrands.com/9qw2E61dd8615?sud=11286. It always
is an advertisement for Footlocker. Really discussing. If not for the ability
to store upcoming dates of importance in Reminders, I would drop excite.

 

[Malke]

The popup is http://www.yourtopbrands.com/9qw2E61dd8615?sud=11286. It
always is an advertisement for Footlocker. Really discussing. If not for
the ability to store upcoming dates of importance in Reminders, I would
drop excite.

It doesn't sound like your computer is infected. This is just Excite.com's
normal ugly behavior.

You can get the same functionality with My Google (or whatever they call it)
as your homepage without all the ads. My Yahoo also provides that
functionality but it does have quite a few ads. Your ISP may even have a
tailored homepage that does what you want, albeit probably not without ads.
I know that my ISP (Comcast) does.

You can spend the time doing a bit of exploring instead of just passively
using Excite.com. or try Firefox as I previously suggested. In addition to
its built-in popup blocker, there are tons of extensions created for
Firefox to manage what scripts and ads run. Get Firefox from
www.mozilla.com.

Or try another homepage instead of Excite.

Malke

 

[Tracy]

Thanks
--
Tracy

It doesn't sound like your computer is infected. This is just Excite.com's
normal ugly behavior.

You can get the same functionality with My Google (or whatever they call it)
as your homepage without all the ads. My Yahoo also provides that
functionality but it does have quite a few ads. Your ISP may even have a
tailored homepage that does what you want, albeit probably not without ads.
I know that my ISP (Comcast) does.

You can spend the time doing a bit of exploring instead of just passively
using Excite.com. or try Firefox as I previously suggested. In addition to
its built-in popup blocker, there are tons of extensions created for
Firefox to manage what scripts and ads run. Get Firefox from
www.mozilla.com.

Or try another homepage instead of Excite.

Malke
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MS-MVP
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
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