Re: Req: info on IP range popup ad software supposedly called "Extreme Marketing"

From: 73115.1041@compuserve.com
Date: 12/30/02 

From: 73115.1041@compuserve.com
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 12:26:58 -0700

Barry Margolin <barmar@genuity.net> wrote:

>Although it may be trivial to block these things, I'll bet that 50-75% of
>Windows users don't block it. The folks who read this newsgroup are not
>typical PC users, we're savvy and know how to protect ourselves. You need
>to put yourselves in the place of clueless users who don't know any better.
>
>These pop-ups are undoubtedly showing up on 10's of thousands of PC's every
>day.

Yep, they are. I had a phone call from my 72 year old dad asking why he was
seeing them and had to walk him thorugh disabling messaging on his XP machine.

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