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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What is this?

[wimble.livejournal.com]

Oooh. That's a new one on me. I've only just started seeing X10 adverts, mind you.

The other option, according to the security advisory, would be to firewall off port 135. That would have the advantage off allowing messages through when you're connected to a network that does use this sort of thing legitimately.

[wimble.livejournal.com]

Ok, does anybody know how I make Netscape forget the values I last filled in on the Subject: field?

To answer my own question

[wimble.livejournal.com]

It's in the Password Manager. Because there's a password field. So it's not managed by the Form Manager. Oh no. That would be too easy.