They're everywhere...

[venta]

I'm beset by evil popups :(

Not the normal baby web-page kind, but things which pop up claiming to be from a 'messenger service'. So far they've mostly been offering me porn sites (one of which was apparently "a good spend of time"), and the opportunity to work from home.

They contain no click-through links, and appear to have no purpose other than to appear in the middle of my screen, offering me the option to paste their links into my browser. They appear at random, not when I visit a new page, or anything of that sort.

Does anyone know how I can make them go away ? I'm using Windows XP. (Comments such as "well that's your problem then" will not be considered helpful, though comments such as "stop using IE" are fair enough if it will help, and you recommend something better :)

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[thegreenman.livejournal.com]

Yep, I had this yesterday working at home. Stopping the messenger service fixes it. I checked with DK and IS only use it to announce the sarnie van to denizens of the Gulag, so it's acceptable to turn it off.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm working from home today, so figured I could bugger about with my own machine and turn things off :)

At least I would be working from home if scp hadn't taken a turn for the weird and started refusing to let me at my files :(