Re: pop up messages

Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2003 06:52:44 -0700
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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chuck said:
> How can I turn off those pesky pop-up meassages in Windows
> XP....
>
> The most irritating thing is that most of the pop-ups are
> adertisements for pop-up blockers... however I'd rather
> not feed that self-propagating business. They are making
> themselves necessary by flooding me with pop-ups.
>
> Is there a way to prevent pop-ups without patronizing the
> the leaches that create the pop-ups, then try to sell you
> something to stop them?
If these are "Messenger" pop-ups, they can be banished by enabling the XP
built-in firewall (which should be done anyway). See HELP & SUPPORT for
easy instructions.
If this is a program that has been inadvertently installed on your PC,
running ADAware may enable its removal. http://www.lavasoftusa.com
Read the instructions, download, install and run the program. The basic
utility is free.
If the pop-ups are site-related - the page that is being visited - then a
pop-up blocker may help. http://google.com Search for "ad blocker".
Or install and use a new-generation browser, such as NetScape
"streamline Navigator only" browser from http://sillydog.org/narchive.
NS and other browsers based on the Mozilla Gecko engine will will
selectively block pop-ups and images, and are more customizable then I.E.
For more...
snews://secnews.netscape.com/netscape.netscape7.windows is the newgroup.
http://mozilla.org