Tim Bowling
December 14th 03, 02:48 AM
The reason you are getting so many is because you wouldn't
believe how many companies are writing programs to your
hard drive when you surf the internet. Check out this
article:
http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179
,2872081,00.html
I found this great free software from a German guy (and I
looked for it, but I can't find it - it's on my home
computer and I'm not there) and when I ran it it found
hundreds of programs that had been written to my hard
drive over the years and it got rid of them for me. Since
that time, pop ups and lots of other nasty slowing things
were cut down to a minimal amount.
I began noticing that I was getting popups even on my own
domain, which is on my own apache server, and they
shouldn't be there (since I don't have advertisers) unless
something was written to my windows HD on the computer I
was using. That's when I went searching for a solution. If
you can't find that software I'm talking about, just
search for anti spyware software. There are lots of free
ones, and some cost money but are cheap.
Unfortunately, it's the way things are. There are
companies out there with no sense of ethics that want to
monitor everything you view so they can send advertising
to you they think you'll like. Some do it with even more
sinister agendas. You need to fight back!
>-----Original Message-----
>I have aol 8.0 and think there should be a way to block
>spam and stop pop-ups without having to pay for it!!!
>AOL should provide some type of support. Does anyone
>have any comments/thoughts/ideas? Thanks
>.
>
believe how many companies are writing programs to your
hard drive when you surf the internet. Check out this
article:
http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179
,2872081,00.html
I found this great free software from a German guy (and I
looked for it, but I can't find it - it's on my home
computer and I'm not there) and when I ran it it found
hundreds of programs that had been written to my hard
drive over the years and it got rid of them for me. Since
that time, pop ups and lots of other nasty slowing things
were cut down to a minimal amount.
I began noticing that I was getting popups even on my own
domain, which is on my own apache server, and they
shouldn't be there (since I don't have advertisers) unless
something was written to my windows HD on the computer I
was using. That's when I went searching for a solution. If
you can't find that software I'm talking about, just
search for anti spyware software. There are lots of free
ones, and some cost money but are cheap.
Unfortunately, it's the way things are. There are
companies out there with no sense of ethics that want to
monitor everything you view so they can send advertising
to you they think you'll like. Some do it with even more
sinister agendas. You need to fight back!
>-----Original Message-----
>I have aol 8.0 and think there should be a way to block
>spam and stop pop-ups without having to pay for it!!!
>AOL should provide some type of support. Does anyone
>have any comments/thoughts/ideas? Thanks
>.
>