>In IE7, under Tools/Manage Add-Ons/Enable or Disable Add-Ons. try disabling anything that is not from Microsoft, Adobe, or any other provider you are absolutely sure you want on the machine.

There was only Sun microsystems (don't know what that was doing there) and Norton (which I thought I'd expunged from my pc years ago! :-) besides google and yahoo.

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>Also verify under Tools/Internet Options/General that your search provider is what you think it is. If that is hijacked all kinds of nasty things can happen.

I've checked all those options a few times. Can't say I've seen the "search provider" though.

Cheers Bill.

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>You also might try (last resort) clicking on the Tools/Internet Options/Advanced/Reset Internet Explorer settings button.
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>>>Need more detail..
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>>>Do you get some kind of message when this thing shows up? If so, can you give an example?
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>>A wee white rectangle. blue border, with the message like "popup blocked from: xxxxx.org" and a "view" option. Nothing to ID what auspices it acts under.
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>>>Are you using IE7?
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>>Yes
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>>>It sounds like you may have some sort of spyware or malware disguised as a blocker.
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>>A poss. I guess.
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>>>Do you use Windows Defender or some other reliable spyware blocker?
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>>Zone Alarm
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>>>IE's pop-up blocker works well. I haven't found any reason to use anything else.
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>>That's it. I don't think this is a Windows blocker
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>>The Yahoo toolbar's blocker is switched off. At the mo the Google toolbar's is clicked on "popups OK"
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>>>>Can anyone tell me how to get rid of an extremely annoying pop-up blocker that pops up at my bottom RH corner, sometimes several times, for MOST URLs I try to access? These include most the URLs cited here. Even if I hold the ALt key they still persist. Even if I turn off the Windows blocker. I can't seem to find out what controls this. Mostly I have to retry the URL several times before it will let me through. Does my head in!
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>>>>'ppreciate it