From: BillK (bill@wkidston.freeserve.co.uk)
Date: Sun Apr 14 2002 - 17:16:05 MDT
I was surprised that people are still being troubled by popup ads when
surfing. Almost as soon as they started to appear, free software became
available to stop them being downloaded to your PC. I run WebWasher and
Internet Explorer v6 on Win98 SE and never see any popup ads. WebWasher
speeds up surfing as well, as you download a lot less garbage to your PC.
Webwasher is free for personal use from:
http://www.webwasher.com/en/products/wwash/download.htm
Depending on your setup it can occasionally take a few tries to get it
working OK, but once done it needs no further attention. There are many
other alternatives - ask nice Mr Google.
The geocities wombat picture came up fine with no ads on my PC.
I notice that people are also worried about the Yahoo changes in group
preferences possibly generating a lot of spam to your inbox. Well, really!
If you go surfing to a site and it says to you 'Fill up this registration
form with your personal details before you can access this site' how do you
respond? Think carefully now. That's right. You fill their form up with a
load of valid looking garbage including an invalid email address like
anyone@maximus.com and, guess what, you don't get any spam from them.
Be careful. It's a jungle out there!
BillK
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