On Mon, 1 Mar 2004 13:35:35 PST, "milady" wrote: > All of a sudden I am getting IE ads popping up each time I open > IE..how does one stop these critters? I have a popup blocker but > it isn't stopping these things. They are called Advertisements. > thru IE... Never had these before. running XP. That may be because they're coming =from= Earthlink! Read your terms of service (probably at the ISP's 'help' web site); they likely say that the ISP is allowed to accept advertising and to show it to you as it sees fit. The difference is that it is coming from them, not from individual sites you visit... and as such is not subject to blocking! Juno, which I've used since '98, has always had one or two pop-ups appear whenever I get on the web! -- BOB dot in dot jersey at Juno dot com To unsub or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ For more info: //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=pctechtalk