-=PCTechTalk=- Re: IE ads

  • From: "Kathy Ferrell" <fnkdf@xxxxxxx>
  • To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 14:06:22 -0900

Sounds like a browser hijacker or spyware or some such nefarious junk.  Run
Spybot and then install SpywareBlaster to keep the junk from happening
again.  Make sure you do the updates regularly on both. Kat

-----Original Message-----
From: pctechtalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:pctechtalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of milady
Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 1:49 PM
To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: IE ads

I checked... it's disabled...sighhhh. They are just big adds. The first ones
came up empty. big oblong box that says Internet Explorer ad.  NOW they are
coming up with ads. EVERY time I open IE.  Is there somewhere ELSE to look?
The first two, one was an add for software and the second I don't know..I
closed it. 
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Kathy Ferrell 
To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 2:29 PM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: IE ads

What do they say specifically?  Maybe they are popups from spammers using
the messenger service in Windows (not MSN Messenger).  This is a service
that allows administrators to send netsend messages in the form of popups to
any IP address.  If this is it, go to your administrative tools > services >
and turn off messenger service.  You don't need this for anything else and
it's just a big spam hole. Kat

-----Original Message-----
From: pctechtalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:pctechtalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of milady
Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 1:20 PM
To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: IE ads

Other people on E. arent' getting them..and this JUST started in the last
few days. Something must not be set. 
----- Original Message ----- 
From: bob.in.jersey@xxxxxxxx 
To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 2:06 PM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: IE ads



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

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