[jaws-uk] Re: Spam on the web.
- From: "Bill Teale" <bill@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 12:19:26 -0500
Hi Michael,
It could be spyware, a little program or cookie that settles itself into your
computer and starts popping up advertisements, and/or sending messages back to
the owner of the cookie about your viewing habits.
I had norton 2004 systemworks setup on my system, and they still got through.
You would be absolutely amazed at all the websites that use these adware and
spyware. One of the ones that surprised me a great deal was hotmail and MSN,
but since I got some free software I can sift them out.
The software you need is either spyboy, or adaware - preferrably both!
They work like an anti virus scan in the background, and they have free
versions that do very well in stopping most of these annoying things appearing.
If you run spybot, every time it detects one of these things on a webpage it
alerts you, and asks you wether to allow it to do so. It's a little annoying
having the message appear each time, but far less annoying than the adverts
themselves.
Here's the link to download
http://www.spybot.info/en/download/index.html
Hope this helps.
Bill.
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To: Jaws User Group.
Sent: Friday, February 11, 2005 10:28 AM
Subject: [jaws-uk] Spam on the web.
Hi folks,
Can someone help please. Over the last few days what appears to be an
advertisment keeps interfering by coming onto my screen when I try to go onto
any web page that I choose to surf. Jaws says New browser window, followed by
Bullseye network offer. But when my wife looks at the screen it appears to be
blank, although she thinks the information on the page has been blocked by my
Norton personal firewall. But what I want to know is if it blocks all the info
on the page why has it allowed the page to come in at all?
It's interfering with every website that I enter onto, and I am forever doing
alt+F4 each time this happens, it is very annoying and frustrating.
My wife says the header line says Oas-central.realmedia.com but jaws just
says bullseye network offer and nothing else.
I use Jaws 4.51 with X P Home. I have Norton Internet Security 2004 installed
on my system, which includes a personal firewall and anti virus programs.
My wife says that on the Internet Security options page all protective
options are checked including "detect intrusion"or something like that.
This has only started occuring two or three days ago.
The only thing I can think of which I have done different about this time, is
that I have downloaded an E Book from Project Guttenberg in M P 3 format into
My Documents. Could that have something to do with it?
I just don't know, as I am not proficient enough to understand these
technicalities.
If someone can help I would be eternally grateful.
Thanks for any help,
Michael Brown.
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