At 09:34 AM 6/30/2004, Madeline L. Buchanan wrote:
>I use the pop-up blocker in Google to block pop-ups and up until a week ago
>it worked well. Now when I access certain sites such as Weather
>Underground, I get a big pop-up advertising Net Zero where until then it was
>just a small advertisement above the weather information. The same thing is
>becoming true about other sites except that I am getting other
>advertisements.
>
>I have run Ad-Aware almost daily to get rid of these and each time it seems
>that spyware is increasing daily. Does anyone have an idea as to what is
>going on? I have tried a freeware pop-up blocker and it caused other
>problems on my computer.
Stop using IE. Here are two good articles on why, as well as a
recommendation for Mozilla Firefox (which I use and have no problems with
spyware, etc.).
todays' reason to ditch IE
http://isc.incidents.org/diary.php?date=2004-06-29&isc=1a004f5c5819858b743cc280c40155a6
http://channels.lockergnome.com/news/archives/20040615_why_you_should_dump_internet_explorer.phtml
Laura Pearle
Head Librarian
Gladys Brooks Library
Professional Children's School
lpearle@pcs-nyc.org
"I must judge for myself, but how can I judge, how can any man judge,
unless his mind has been opened and enlarged by reading?"- John Adams
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