That was it! When I got home there were two more of those obnoxious pop ups and one of them was even specifically mentioned in a link to an article mentioned in the thread. I think everyone sooner or later will encounter this kind of harrassment. Thanks for the help.


>Kenny,
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>You also might look at Thread #722795. This is a new way to spam, using the Messenger service.
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>>Occasionaly I get a window that pops up that tells me how I can buy their software to get rid of pop ups. That's extortion in my opinion, so I don't want to purchase their software nor would I trust them.
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>>I get this even when I don't have IE running, so I suspect this program came with some other software I loaded.
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>>What's good to find find and remove this kind of software? Is there a way to tell what I instaled to get this as well?
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>>Thanks
>>Kenny