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hello Bruce
thankyou for your reply.
i do have spybot ,adware i also use zone alarm
firewall,and regulary install microsoft updates.the one
specific popup hangs in the taskbar loading
as 'Advertising loadin..and is a blank page whilst
another is called 'paypopup'.funny thing but they both
seem to arise when i use Bigpond page, my isp.only been
happening the last couple of days.
i will try your suggestion and use Google tool bar .
thankyou very much again for your help.
Regards
Alan
>-----Original Message-----
>Greetings --
>
> There are at least three varieties of pop-ups, and the
solutions
>vary accordingly. Which specific type(s) is troubling
you?
>
> 1) Does the title bar of these pop-ups
read "Messenger Service?"
>
> This type of spam has become quite common over the
past several
>months, and unintentionally serves as a valid
security "alert." It
>demonstrates that you haven't been taking sufficient
precautions while
>connected to the Internet. Your data probably hasn't
been compromised
>by these specific advertisements, but if you're open to
this exploit,
>you may well be open to other threats, such as the
Blaster Worm that
>recently swept cross the Internet. Install and use a
decent,
>properly configured firewall. (Merely disabling the
messenger
>service, as some people recommend, only hides the
symptom, and does
>little or nothing to truly secure your machine.) And
ignoring or just
>"putting up with" the security gap represented by these
messages is
>particularly foolish.
>
>Messenger Service of Windows
>http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-
us;168893
>
>Messenger Service Window That Contains an Internet
Advertisement
>Appears
>http://support.microsoft.com/?id=330904
>
>Stopping Advertisements with Messenger Service Titles
>http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/using/howto/commun
icate/stopspam.asp
>
>Blocking Ads, Parasites, and Hijackers with a Hosts File
>http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm
>
> Oh, and be especially wary of people who advise you
to do nothing
>more than disable the messenger service. Disabling the
messenger
>service, by itself, is a "head in the sand" approach to
computer
>security. The real problem is _not_ the messenger
service pop-ups;
>they're actually providing a useful, if annoying,
service by acting as
>a security alert. The true problem is the unsecured
computer, and
>you've been advised to merely turn off the warnings.
How is this
>helpful?
>
> 2) For regular Internet pop-ups, you might try the
free 12Ghosts
>Popup-killer from http://12ghosts.com/ghosts/popup.htm,
Pop-Up Stopper
>from http://www.panicware.com/, or the Google Toolbar
from
>http://toolbar.google.com/, which is what I use.
>
> 3) To deal with pop-ups caused by any sort
of "adware" and/or
>"spyware,"such as Gator, Comet Cursors, Xupiter, Bonzai
Buddy, or
>KaZaA, and their remnants, that you've deliberately (but
without
>understanding the consequences) installed, two products
that are
>quite effective (at finding and removing this type of
scumware) are
>Ad-Aware from www.lavasoft.de and SpyBot Search &
Destroy from
>www.safer-networking.org/. Both have free versions.
It's even
>possible to use SpyBot Search & Destroy to "immunize"
your system
>against most future intrusions. I use both and
generally perform
>manual scans every week or so to clean out cookies, etc.
>
>
>Bruce Chambers
>--
>Help us help you:
>http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
>http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
>
>You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever
count on
>having both at once. - RAH
>
>
>"Alan" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message
>news:2dee701c46a58$44af6c30$a301280a@phx.gbl...
>> hello
>> recently i have been getting in my taskbar links to
>> something called 'paypopups' when i open them its
just a
>> blank page with the words 'paypopup' typed in the top,
>> left hand corner.these happen all of the time recently
>> and are very annoying .
>> how can i get rid/stop this? any help greatly
appreciated
>> thankyou
>> Regards Alan
>
>
>.
>
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