From: Guess Who
Date: 22/07/2003 22:33 GMT Daylight Time

You obviously have little or no idea on how the internet works -
discussion boards are not free - they are paid for by advertising,
hence the pop-ups - or are you one of those people who refuses to
watch any TV channel except BBC, after all, all the others keep
plastering adverts all over yout television?

Yeah, but TV adverts don't place "data miners" or "keystroke trackers"on your
system like some of these cookies and pop-ups do. Like the one that stuck one
on mine, grabbed my passwords and used one of my addresses to send out 700
e-mails one night when I wasn't even on line! In fact, I was in bed!

Acrosticus wrote:
From: Guess Who
Date: 22/07/2003 22:33 GMT Daylight Time

You obviously have little or no idea on how the internet
works -
discussion boards are not free - they are paid for by
advertising,
hence the pop-ups - or are you one of those people who
refuses to
watch any TV channel except BBC, after all, all the others
keep
plastering adverts all over yout television?

Yeah, but TV adverts don't place "data miners" or
"keystroke trackers"on your system like some of these
cookies and pop-ups do. Like the one that stuck one on
mine, grabbed my passwords and used one of my addresses to
send out 700 e-mails one night when I wasn't even on line!
In fact, I was in bed!

That's called a virus and will hopefully teach you to use suitable
protection.

"Acrosticus" wrote in message
...

Yeah, but TV adverts don't place "data miners" or "keystroke
trackers"on your
system like some of these cookies and pop-ups do. Like the one that
stuck one
on mine, grabbed my passwords and used one of my addresses to send
out 700
e-mails one night when I wasn't even on line! In fact, I was in bed!

Use a decent firewall such as Zone Alarm... This will block pop-ups
and will manage/prevent cookies as well as preventing anything being
written onto your computer. Since installing ZA, I've been amazed how
many attempts are made to access my computer - currently shows 58848
attempts blocked over the last 12 weeks!