Change your "home page" popups

[Bill in SD, CA]

Occasionally I get these popups saying would you like to change your home page to:

"www.blahblahblahblahblah.com" Yes or No

They look like a normal "Windows" window.

I don't click yes or no.

I re-boot because I'm afraid no matter what I click the home page is going to be hijacked.

Kind of like clicking "unsubscribe" on a junk mail. You know - you get tons more of junk mail because your email has been verified as good.

Am I being too paranoid?

Bill

[Droppyale]

first of all... are you runing IE?

do you have a popup blocker?

Have you ran Spybot or Adaware?

[HfdWolfPack]

I usually click on them in the taskbar and close/Alt+f4 them badboys.


so annoying.....I don't know how many times I get called for those popups that look like a Windows Error and they are only popups.....

[butch81385]

on those i usually aim for the x... same fear that the yes and the no can both mean yes... but just xing it or ctrl alt del and end it has always worked for me

[Droppyale]

you should run adaware and spybot, and use a browser like Firebird...


you woun't get this popups anymore for sure.

[Bill in SD, CA]

I ran Spybot and AdAware an hour before it just happened.

What was strange was the "X" was greyed out and couldn't close in the taskbar.

Popup blocker was on also.

Bill

[ooops]

Here's a good place to visit for these matters.


http://www.spywareinfo.com/articles/hijacked/

[doddsy]

if these are messenger service pop ups .....then they are pure spam ................. it says "messenger service" at the top of a little windows dialogue box............if so pop-up stoppers will stop them but they will also stop legitimate pop up windows, on banking pages etc.

if it is messenger let me know...........i have a tweak somewhere in a mag that stops this rubbish for good.

btw the google toolbar has a built in popup stopper, it and the tool bar are excellent and free from www.google.com

doddsy

[dfrav]

I don' know if this will help your problem or not but it stopped some of my popups.

Windows 2000
Click Start-> Settings-> Control Panel-> Administrative Tools->Services
Scroll down and highlight "Messenger"
Right-click the highlighted line and choose Properties.
Click the STOP button.
Select Disable or Manual in the Startup Type scroll bar
Click OK


Windows XP Home
Click Start->Settings ->Control Panel
Click Performance and Maintenance
Click Administrative Tools
Double click Services Scroll
down and highlight "Messenger"
Right-click the highlighted line and choose Properties.
Click the STOP button.
Select Disable or Manual in the Startup Type scroll bar
Click OK


Windows XP Professional
Click Start->Settings ->Control Panel
Click Administrative Tools
Click Services
Double click Services Scroll
down and highlight "Messenger"
Right-click the highlighted line and choose Properties.
Click the STOP button.
Select Disable or Manual in the Startup Type scroll bar
Click OK


Windows NT
Click Start ->Control Panel
Double Click Administrative Tools
Select Services-> Double-click on Messenger
In the Messenger Properties window, select Stop,
Then choose Disable as the Startup Type
Click OK

Windows 98 & ME
Windows Messenger Service cannot be disabled

[Bill in SD, CA]

The box says Microsoft Internet Explorer.

Bill