RE: Popups ONLY occur in Internet explorer??

anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com
Date: 05/25/04


Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 21:04:44 -0700

get spybot at safer-networking.org and sacan and remove
spyware ie is so insecure. have you tried mozilla.org
firefox?????
much better and no hijacks cause it's open source.

>-----Original Message-----
>I have the latest Internet Explorer and after I installed
>this one program, now I keep getting occasional popups that
>say occasionally say on the top "related article" or
>something like that. I uninstalled that program and looked
>through the 2 start up sections in regedit "local computer"
>and "current user", and there isn't anything there that's
>loaded that can be a program that does it. I tried using
>both MSN and google toolbar pop up blocker and neither worked.
>
>Is there anywhere else I can look to see what's causing
>this in Internet explorer ONLY? I downloaded and installed
>netscape, and it seems uneffected. Only Internet explorer
>gets random pop ups from random sites (been the sites LOTS
>of times, no pop ups before).
>
>any help will be GREATLY appreciated!
>.
>



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