R. Brown
December 5th 03, 03:18 PM
After reading your message I can understand the headaches
you have run across. As you know there are tons of popup
killer programs on the net and the one that I use is popup
killer. I have been using this for about 2 months. I would
say that it stops about 99% of popups that I have asked it
to stop.
The thing is that as these type of products hit the
market, the makers of popups are finding ways around these
programs. It is part of the Internet and will continue for
quite awhile.
Being in the IT industry, the consumer is always looking
for a cheap way to stop certain things that happen which
is sometimes beyond the control of Microsoft and AOL. If
the consumer wanted all of this protection, it would seem
to me that he/she would buy what is needed to prevent
these events..ie spam, popups, hackers. All of these could
be prevented with a very simple firewall.
All it takes is a little of your free time that everyone
has. If you believe paying up to $30.00 a month for
Internet access grants you the right to complain to
Microsoft or AOL for a silly popup. Maybe you should read
reports on what these ISP's pay to develop spam, junk mail
and stop hackers from gaining access to your computer in
general. How can you compare $30.00 to hundred of
thousands of dollers spent each year. But of course the
consumer has the right to complain to news groups and
companies because people are to lazy or cheap to buy a
firewall, spam filters, junk filters and a descent popup
killer program.
I ask you WHY in return
R. Brown
>-----Original Message-----
>After reading all the messages for help on how to destroy
>the stupid gray boxes, I think it is a waste of time to
>even write to Newsgroups for help!!! Windows XP and our
>internet Microsoft Explorer hasn't helped any of us so
>far. Am I not right? There are so many different kinds
>that pop-up that it is really pathetic. We are not going
>to get help from anyone, and reading some of these
>messages, I see there are people who payed for that
>service and it still didn't help!!!! I myself have
>purchased 3 different kinds of Pop-Killers and not one of
>them are real effective. My sister is on AOL and they
>provide a program that puts mine to shame, and it is
>built right in to AOL. How are we supposed to complain
>when it does no good, we still don't get a response from
>Microsoft, they just tell us to help eachother!!! I for
>one might join AOL even if I have to put a callwave on my
>computer to show me who is calling. We are all being
>taken by the biggest Internet provider, all I ask of them
>is WHY????
>.
>
you have run across. As you know there are tons of popup
killer programs on the net and the one that I use is popup
killer. I have been using this for about 2 months. I would
say that it stops about 99% of popups that I have asked it
to stop.
The thing is that as these type of products hit the
market, the makers of popups are finding ways around these
programs. It is part of the Internet and will continue for
quite awhile.
Being in the IT industry, the consumer is always looking
for a cheap way to stop certain things that happen which
is sometimes beyond the control of Microsoft and AOL. If
the consumer wanted all of this protection, it would seem
to me that he/she would buy what is needed to prevent
these events..ie spam, popups, hackers. All of these could
be prevented with a very simple firewall.
All it takes is a little of your free time that everyone
has. If you believe paying up to $30.00 a month for
Internet access grants you the right to complain to
Microsoft or AOL for a silly popup. Maybe you should read
reports on what these ISP's pay to develop spam, junk mail
and stop hackers from gaining access to your computer in
general. How can you compare $30.00 to hundred of
thousands of dollers spent each year. But of course the
consumer has the right to complain to news groups and
companies because people are to lazy or cheap to buy a
firewall, spam filters, junk filters and a descent popup
killer program.
I ask you WHY in return
R. Brown
>-----Original Message-----
>After reading all the messages for help on how to destroy
>the stupid gray boxes, I think it is a waste of time to
>even write to Newsgroups for help!!! Windows XP and our
>internet Microsoft Explorer hasn't helped any of us so
>far. Am I not right? There are so many different kinds
>that pop-up that it is really pathetic. We are not going
>to get help from anyone, and reading some of these
>messages, I see there are people who payed for that
>service and it still didn't help!!!! I myself have
>purchased 3 different kinds of Pop-Killers and not one of
>them are real effective. My sister is on AOL and they
>provide a program that puts mine to shame, and it is
>built right in to AOL. How are we supposed to complain
>when it does no good, we still don't get a response from
>Microsoft, they just tell us to help eachother!!! I for
>one might join AOL even if I have to put a callwave on my
>computer to show me who is calling. We are all being
>taken by the biggest Internet provider, all I ask of them
>is WHY????
>.
>