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gologa

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Jul 29, 2003, 4:31:41 PM7/29/03
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I get these all day, both Ad-Watch, and Norton Security fail to stop these
popups from Netpopup.com, etc.... I saw the eariler post about spammers,
but no solution is forthcoming, I dont even have a browser open and they pop
up anyway. Blah!
Thanks!

"Re: When did RR start selling our info to spammers"


Mike Yetto

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Jul 29, 2003, 5:06:28 PM7/29/03
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Was it anomalous when, on 29 Jul 2003, gologa posted this? You
decide.

> I get these all day, both Ad-Watch, and Norton Security fail to
> stop these popups from Netpopup.com, etc.... I saw the eariler
> post about spammers, but no solution is forthcoming, I dont even
> have a browser open and they pop up anyway. Blah!
> Thanks!

It's a Windows Messenger popup. Look up "messenger popup" in Google
for several explanations and solutions.

Mike "it's everyone's friend" Yetto
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Thunder

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Jul 29, 2003, 5:17:57 PM7/29/03
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Stop the "Messenger" service and that should stop your "Windows Messenger"
PopUp.

If it's a webbased popup, popup stopper works great.

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Richard Steiner

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Jul 29, 2003, 5:24:29 PM7/29/03
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Here in alt.online-services.roadrunner,
"gologa" <gol...@yahoo.com> spake unto us, saying:

>I get these all day, both Ad-Watch, and Norton Security fail to stop these
>popups from Netpopup.com, etc....

One possible solution: try using a different web browser.

Mozilla (for example) has the ability to turn off web popups somewhat
selectively, or even turn them into background pages that simply show
up in another tab.

http://www.mozilla.org

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Proteus

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Jul 29, 2003, 8:02:56 PM7/29/03
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Try re-reading the original post again and comprehend what he says. He
states "I dont even have a browser open and they pop
up anyway. Blah!"

He doesn't even have his browser open and he gets the pop-ups!!!! It's
windows messager!!!!

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Marie Schweitzer

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Jul 30, 2003, 1:31:44 AM7/30/03
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You might want to try panicware.com and download their free pop-up blocker.
Works really well. Good luck
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Beauregard T. Shagnasty

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Jul 30, 2003, 9:53:46 AM7/30/03
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Marie Schweitzer pounced upon this pigeonhole and pronounced:

> You might want to try panicware.com and download their free pop-up blocker.
> Works really well. Good luck

Marie, gologa is being hit with the Windows Messenger spam. Not web
browsing popup windows. S/he has been advised to turn off or block the
Messenger.

The Messenger windows should more correctly be called "dialog boxes" or
"dialog windows" rather than popups (even though that is what they do
<g>).

Re the browser popups: rather than adding another layer of software like
your panicware program, why not just painlessly switch to a better
browser?

IE is quite old now as the life of browsers goes, and won't be updated
until at least 2005, according to Microsoft. Try one of these, all of
which have built-in popup stoppers, tabbed browsing, cookie management,
lots of other features, and are in a constant state of development.

Firebird - 6 MB - browser only <-- my choice
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firebird/release-notes.html

Mozilla - 11 MB - browser, mail, news
http://www.mozilla.org/

Opera 7.11 - 3.2 MB (free version ad supported, $39USD no ads)
http://www.opera.com/

> "gologa" <gol...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:NQAVa.119106$hV.85...@twister.austin.rr.com...
> > I get these all day, both Ad-Watch, and Norton Security fail to stop these
> > popups from Netpopup.com, etc.... I saw the eariler post about spammers,
> > but no solution is forthcoming, I dont even have a browser open and they
> pop
> > up anyway. Blah!
> > Thanks!
> >
> > "Re: When did RR start selling our info to spammers"
> >
> >
>
>
>

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-bts
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ShadowDragon

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Jul 30, 2003, 7:35:42 PM7/30/03
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"Beauregard T. Shagnasty" <a.non...@nowhere.invalid> wrote in message
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> Firebird - 6 MB - browser only <-- my choice
> http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firebird/release-notes.html
>
> Mozilla - 11 MB - browser, mail, news
> http://www.mozilla.org/
>
> Opera 7.11 - 3.2 MB (free version ad supported, $39USD no ads)
> http://www.opera.com/

Don't forget http://www.avantbrowser.com/


Richard Steiner

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Jul 31, 2003, 3:46:50 AM7/31/03
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Here in alt.online-services.roadrunner, do...@home.com
spake unto us, saying:

>I am interested in trying out Mozilla .. and I would like to know
>exactly what ver I should try ?

I have both Mozilla/Firebird 0.6 and Mozilla 1.4 running under OS/2,
Win95, and Linux here. That's one thing I like about it -- it exists
on almost all of the platforms I care about. :-)

Newer versions are beta code and potentially unstable.

The differences:

Mozilla 1.4 is the full browser using the original Mozilla interface,
and bundled with the mail, news, and instant messaging clients. It's
roughly analogous to Netscape 7.1.

Firebird is just the browser part, and it uses a different interface
from Mozilla. Some of the same ideas (tabbed browsing, etc), but some
differences as well.

The project has stated that Firebird will be the interface of the
future, which is why it might be worth looking at. I rather like it.

BTW -- Mozilla and Firebird will each install their code and their
profile info into separate directories -- there are no conflicts
that I can see.

I tend to prefer installing from ZIP files to EXE files, but you may
have a different opinion.

eatkrow

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Jul 31, 2003, 3:02:41 PM7/31/03
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Does Firebird give you block popup ad and cookie control settings like
Mozilla does?


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Beauregard T. Shagnasty

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Jul 31, 2003, 3:14:53 PM7/31/03
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eatkrow pounced upon this pigeonhole and pronounced:

> Does Firebird give you block popup ad and cookie control settings like
> Mozilla does?

Yes.

Essentially, it's the same browser as the mozilla browser. Some
differences, but mostly the same.

Jeff

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Aug 3, 2003, 11:43:38 PM8/3/03
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Since you state you have no browser open the the popups appear, those are
Messenger windows, and if you are using Windows XP, simply activate the
Internet Connection firewall, and it will block those popups.

Jeff


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Ray Kinserlow

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Aug 7, 2003, 2:39:28 PM8/7/03
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I like Adsubtract as a popup blocker. It is not free but it works
very well.

++ Ray Kinserlow Jr. ++
kinserlow at earthlink dot net

John M. Harvey

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Aug 19, 2003, 2:40:42 AM8/19/03
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google has new tool bar work so far

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John M. Harvey

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Aug 19, 2003, 2:59:31 AM8/19/03
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there is a great program from analogx.com and it is free

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ShadowDragon

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Aug 19, 2003, 9:15:56 AM8/19/03
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"John M. Harvey" <jo...@dc.rr.com> wrote in message
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> there is a great program from analogx.com and it is free

Any company that release unsecurable software I will have nothing to do with
and will not only not reccommend them but will reccommend just about anyone
else over them.


Jayson

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Aug 20, 2003, 5:27:41 AM8/20/03
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ShadowDragon wrote:


>
> Any company that release unsecurable software I will have nothing to do with
> and will not only not reccommend them but will reccommend just about anyone
> else over them.
>
>

So... You choose to use Microsoft Outlook Express because???

Anarchy

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Aug 20, 2003, 3:21:30 PM8/20/03
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got an old popup stopper that you can load manully on my website
http://complobby4.250free.com under links

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Version: 6.0.510 / Virus Database: 307 - Release Date: 8/14/03


ShadowDragon

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Aug 20, 2003, 3:42:59 PM8/20/03
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"Jayson" <jays...@mail.com> spewed out...

> ShadowDragon wrote:
>
> > Any company that release unsecurable software I will have nothing to do
with
>
> So... You choose to use Microsoft Outlook Express because???

unsecureable: not able to be secured

Your point is?


Proteus

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Aug 21, 2003, 12:06:45 PM8/21/03
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"ShadowDragon" <dont...@cause.this.address.is.invalid> wrote in message
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Yes, I too use MSOE, but I also am fully aware that it is a MS product
afterall. Now then you stated "unsecurable", what product from MS do you
use that is secured??? Why do you think that MS products are the hackers
and script kiddies favorite forum to attack?? It's definitely not because
MicroSoft made them securable!!!!!!!

>


Big Al

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Aug 21, 2003, 4:13:48 PM8/21/03
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ShadowDragon

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Aug 21, 2003, 7:00:34 PM8/21/03
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"Proteus" <Pro...@somewhere.rr.com> wrote in message
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>
> Yes, I too use MSOE, but I also am fully aware that it is a MS product
> afterall. Now then you stated "unsecurable", what product from MS do you
> use that is secured??? Why do you think that MS products are the hackers
> and script kiddies favorite forum to attack?? It's definitely not because
> MicroSoft made them securable!!!!!!!

The point is you *can* secure them. Just because most people do not does not
mean it cannot be. If the majority of users used something else, viruses
would be written for that. We've seen Solaris worms, Linux worms, BSD worms
(this means you OSX people). No software is free from bugs, but to not even
give a way to secure software, that's just irresponsible. I've been using
the internet for a decade now and have only received one trojan, I've never
gotten an e-mail virus, even after I switched from Eurdora when they were
unable to figure out how to properly support IMAP (and still don't as of
their last version).

Check out Analog X's proxy server, it's "on" or "off". There is no way to
distinguish between LAN and WAN traffic.


Darth Ferret

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Aug 24, 2003, 11:11:26 PM8/24/03
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I use a free program called "PopUp Killer" and I'm very happy with it.

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George Dean

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Aug 25, 2003, 12:49:56 PM8/25/03
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AdsGone is great also.

Big Al

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Aug 30, 2003, 1:43:09 PM8/30/03
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On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 11:06:45 -0500, "Proteus"
<Pro...@somewhere.rr.com> wrote:

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