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I too have had considerable problems w/ MSN Explorer lately, and no matter how many times I rerun a scan using SpyBot S&D I'll get bombarded w/ popups the very next moment I connect w/ my cable provider, Adelphia. I've contacted MSN and they don't respond w/ anything-nothing-silent. . .They suck. Some of the popups are so aggressive that they 'cascade'-not sure what the actual term should be-I'm a bit of a neophyte on PCs (my 19 yr old calls me 'fossel')-anyway the same full screen popup will repeat itself up to 22 or 23 times on top of itself, faster than you can right click / left click in an attempt to close it, eventually locking up the PC, knocking me offline, and eventually crashing the system. I've spoken w/ (on phone) w/ one of the worst offnders (a discount prescription company), and after I wade thru their corporate bs and their rights to bombard me w/ spam, etc. they eventually respond to threats and that I've filed complaints w/ FTC. . . Then the same popups show up again a few days later, and when confronted again, they blame their spam 'webmaster'-then the same routine w/ threats, etc. There are a couple of anti-spyware popups just as aggressive, but they seemingly have responded to threats, ugly emails and/ or FTC complaints. These same companies are advertising on MSN's Home Page, and I suspect that these aggressive popups are infiltrating MSN Explorer right thru MSN. I emailed MSN re: this, and again they are silent. Also MSN has been pushing a new feature that 'combines' numerous search engines into one location, and even though I indicated on one of the options that I'm not interested and to not show this option again, it keeps coming back. When I uninstalled MSN's popup blocker, some of the problems died down to a more tolerable level. Isn't it coincidental that MSN has been hawking their 'popup blocker' (sic) and other features lately, even emailing me to 'take advantage of their technology' - right. I have McAfee Security, SpyBot S&D, a junk mail filter, Zone Alarm, and just installed Google's toolbar w/ a popup blocker. Norden's firewall blocks everything so we uninstalled it.We have Internet Explore 6 and Windows XP. About four months ago we got Adelphia cable modem; prior to that we had Time Warner 's "Road Runner" cable modem. Some wierd things still keep happening- -like an 'insert' of a program w/ an html code and a bunch of somewhat unrelated numbers, characters, and words, that inserts itself in the middle of text usually when posting on this and another Kalmbach Forum. It's easily erased and usually goes away on first attempt, but is annoying. It isn't happening on emails I send, or on Forums ouside of Kalmbach. It attaches itself to certain key words (and I've since edited this post, removing approx half a dozen or more of these), but I've left one in as an example. When reviewing a post I've made (and sometimes, someone else's posting, certain words are highlighted in blue and underlined when using those words in text on Forum posts. Here's an example : <A TITLE="Click for more information about <A TITLE="Click for more information about car" STYLE="text-decoration: none; border-bottom: medium solid green;" HREF="http://search.targetwords.com/u.search?x=5977|1||||cars|AA1VDw">car</A>" STYLE="text-decoration: none; border-bottom: medium solid green;" HREF="http://search.targetwords.com/u.search?x=5977|1||||cars|AA1VDw">car</A> End of example. (since I edited this post twice to remove this crap I'm referring to, the 'insert' has duplicated itself , and I've left it in the above example) There is a direct correlation w/ when a post is edited by me right after initial posting. If I click on highlighted word, it connects me to the same 'search assistant' I mention below. -Lastly, we've had a popup, a 'search assistant' (useless)-t hat sometimes crashes the PC-only a brief waiting time seems effective in getting rid of it- it looks just like the first page you get when one does a search on Yahoo - links to different search programs promising to 'facilitate your search' Sometimes I'm able to get back to MR Forum by clicking on a "model railroader" window that appears in the body of the popup! Is Kalmbach the root of this? Not sure if it's relavent, but I have Forum Code 'ON' and HTML is 'OFF' . Anybody experiencing any of these problems? Thanks for any info or suggestions. BILL
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