ELIMINATING MICROSOFT POP-UPS

[Diana La Croix]

DEAR MICROSOFT: A SHORT WHILE AGO I WENT TO MY WORD PAD
AND THERE WAS A WINDOW THAT SAID "IF YOU CLICK HERE" YOU
WILL HAVE MICROSOFT "POP UP ADS"!! I DID NOT CLICK,BUT
STILL HAVE ANNOYING "POP-UP" ADS!! EVEN THOUGH I HAVE THE
YAHOO POP-UP BLOCKER!!

PLEASE TELL ME HOW TO ELIMINATE THE PROBLEM!!

MY E-MAIL ADDRESS IS

THANKS!!!!!!

[Mark]

Ops.. I meant www.lavasoft.de

"Mark" > wrote in message
...
> You didn't click here? Oh man.. did you screw up big time.
> Microsoft Wordpad told you to click here and you didn't. Thats illegal I
> think. :-)
> Good netiquette is to NOT HAVE YOUR CAPS LOCK ON. It is considered
> shouting. Another thing is get rid of that Yahoo popup blocker... its
> garbage.
> Run Ad Aware www.lavasoft.com to see which annoying spyware you
downloaded
> to give you that window in wordpad.
>
> "Diana La Croix" > wrote in message
> ...
> > DEAR MICROSOFT: A SHORT WHILE AGO I WENT TO MY WORD PAD
> > AND THERE WAS A WINDOW THAT SAID "IF YOU CLICK HERE" YOU
> > WILL HAVE MICROSOFT "POP UP ADS"!! I DID NOT CLICK,BUT
> > STILL HAVE ANNOYING "POP-UP" ADS!! EVEN THOUGH I HAVE THE
> > YAHOO POP-UP BLOCKER!!
> >
> > PLEASE TELL ME HOW TO ELIMINATE THE PROBLEM!!
> >
> > MY E-MAIL ADDRESS IS
> >
> > THANKS!!!!!!
>
>

[Michael Solomon \(MS-MVP Windows Shell/User\)]

Once you've updated your antivirus and scanned your system and run a malware
checker such as Ad Aware, www.lavasoftusa.com and rid your system of any
potential malware, you need to install firewall as this will close the ports
through which these ads, not coming from Microsoft, can be stopped.

--
Michael Solomon MS-MVP
Windows Shell/User
Backup is a PC User's Best Friend
DTS-L.Org: http://www.dts-l.org/

"Diana La Croix" > wrote in message
...
> DEAR MICROSOFT: A SHORT WHILE AGO I WENT TO MY WORD PAD
> AND THERE WAS A WINDOW THAT SAID "IF YOU CLICK HERE" YOU
> WILL HAVE MICROSOFT "POP UP ADS"!! I DID NOT CLICK,BUT
> STILL HAVE ANNOYING "POP-UP" ADS!! EVEN THOUGH I HAVE THE
> YAHOO POP-UP BLOCKER!!
>
> PLEASE TELL ME HOW TO ELIMINATE THE PROBLEM!!
>
> MY E-MAIL ADDRESS IS
>
> THANKS!!!!!!

[Jerry]

It's www.lavasoftusa.com

"Mark" > wrote in message
...
> Ops.. I meant www.lavasoft.de
>
> "Mark" > wrote in message
> ...
> > You didn't click here? Oh man.. did you screw up big time.
> > Microsoft Wordpad told you to click here and you didn't. Thats illegal
I
> > think. :-)
> > Good netiquette is to NOT HAVE YOUR CAPS LOCK ON. It is considered
> > shouting. Another thing is get rid of that Yahoo popup blocker... its
> > garbage.
> > Run Ad Aware www.lavasoft.com to see which annoying spyware you
> downloaded
> > to give you that window in wordpad.
> >
> > "Diana La Croix" > wrote in message
> > ...
> > > DEAR MICROSOFT: A SHORT WHILE AGO I WENT TO MY WORD PAD
> > > AND THERE WAS A WINDOW THAT SAID "IF YOU CLICK HERE" YOU
> > > WILL HAVE MICROSOFT "POP UP ADS"!! I DID NOT CLICK,BUT
> > > STILL HAVE ANNOYING "POP-UP" ADS!! EVEN THOUGH I HAVE THE
> > > YAHOO POP-UP BLOCKER!!
> > >
> > > PLEASE TELL ME HOW TO ELIMINATE THE PROBLEM!!
> > >
> > > MY E-MAIL ADDRESS IS
> > >
> > > THANKS!!!!!!
> >
> >
>
>