Re: Pandora Software Advertising

From: Paul Todd (reg_todd_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 10/01/03 

Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2003 09:22:22 +0100

As a matter of interest why don't you just disable the messenger service as
documented in
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/newsgroups/default.asp?url=/technet/newsgroups/nodepages/sectop10.asp

That will stop the popups from the messenger service.

Paul

"ckopasek" <member39502@dbforums.com> wrote in message
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>
> I just posted a comment regarding Pandora Software that uses Messenger
> to send pop up ads. I have just recently received about 75 ads a day
> using the Messenger utility within Windows. These ads are advertising
> web sites that sell software that blocks pop ups. Before I only received
> about 3 ads a week, it was never that big of deal, on the internet it is
> much worse with banner ads and other pop ups, it beats the heck out of
> spam, but now it has become the annoying thing ever experienced in all
> my years of computing using a PC. What needs to be realized is that this
> is plain and simple extortion. I looked up all of the whoisit, there are
> about 10 or so sites, all look the same in design or text content, the
> whoisit for domain registration shows some names repeated, then some
> other names, duplicated web hosting companies, but different names. It
> is my suspicion that all of the sites and all of the uncountable pop ups
> I get every few minutes are originated from the same company, people,
> person, or whatever, I just know they are all the same. Who ever these
> people are they should be charged with extortion. If a mobster threatens
> you into paying money for something that will protect them from
> something that they will cause, then it is extortion. People are being
> annoyed to total frustration that they are happy to pay the 19.95 for a
> software that blocks the pop ups. However, the only pop ups that are
> frustrating and completely annoying are the never ending, pop ups that
> come every minute or two that advertise this software. I can provide
> some of those web site domains if there is something that can be done. I
> did have screen shots of the ads, but lost them when I had to format my
> hard drive to fix they reason I was not able to connect to the internet,
> which turned out to be a shut down for abuse using the software I bought
> from Pandora. But I get them constantly.
>
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