E-mail, chat, & VoIP forum: Unwanted popups from AOL

There isn't much sympathy for the AOL users, but let me ask this.

Since AOL has it's own army of support staff, what do they say about this?

Do they tell you where the OFF SWITCH is?

And I don't know since I am not an AOL subscriber and AOL does not share it's knowledge base.

Bob

It's possible you have some PEST or PARASITE installed.

Before you exclaim that such is extortion, most, if not all the pests I've encountered are installed by the user of the machine. A fine example is AOL IM (instant messenger.) If you install such, then you agreed to take the advertisements.

Most of us will use tools like ADAWARE, SPYBOT, CWSHREDDER and get a clean pass of HOUSECALL and that cleans up most pests. If not, HIJACKTHIS can reveal what else is in there, but its a power tool which you can do damage as well as good. Be careful with that one.

If you elected to use something like AIM, then you can't complain (to me at least) when there are replacements such as GAIM and you can also kill such with Zone Alarm.

Defend yourself.

Bob

Just kidding. There are tools to deal with this and if you used AIM, then you get the messages. Look at alternatives and the usual tools to knock it out. Of course, no one expected the Spanish Inquisition.

Smile and kill the pests...

Bob

And write a lot of responses helping people remove the pests. The "problem" is that we have both legitimate and illicit adverts.

Before I write one more word, I must comment that complaining to me does nothing. I know the issue and am eductating as many as I can. Let's find your advert source and turn it off? My reference to AIM is because the advert you revealed is "the usual."

Happy hunting, and in parting, as long as you use Internet Explorer then the pop-ups and ads will constantly be yours. I flipped to using Mozilla, which is my choice and never see the ads you disdain.

Some will not want to make such a change and will have to find other solutions.

In closing, many web sites pretty much write "you look at my web site and I give you an AD. And you agree to this by coming here." Short answer? Don't go there.

If you wish to discuss the political, moral and non-technical aspects of this advertising, then please post in the Speakeasy Forum.

Bob

AOL has closed down it message board.mesage as FOLLOWS.......
Important information regarding the shutdown of AOL Message Boards.We regret to inform you that AOL Message Boards has been shut down.
Sincerely,
The AOL Team
I wonder why. I was getting help from some of its subscribers, though I am still plagued by the popups I now realise it is ADWARE-ONESTEP.
My McAfee will not fix it and Regicure does nothing.
I am going to buy SPYware Detector.
Though from what I have read these people are all in bed together.