Re: "pop ups" even when i am offline?

From: Earl F. Parrish (efparri_at_nowhere.world)
Date: 05/23/03


Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 18:21:56 GMT


"nan" <nan101@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
news:0fef01c32155$94d2de10$a301280a@phx.gbl...
> I get popups even when i am not online but mostly when i
> am but in a game and not on a site. I am windows xp home
> edition and use a dsl for connect.
>
> Most of them are from companies trying to sell me
> something to stop the "pop ups"
>
> They all say microsoft put something in their program
> that allows this to happen and want to sell me something
> to reconfigure it.
>
> I think Microsoft should send an upgrade that does this
> or tell us how to reconfig ourselves.
>
> If anyone knows how, let me know Thanks

You are online whenever you are assigned a public IP address. You
do not have to be using a browser, newsreader or email program. You
need a firewall to block incoming ports.

-- 
Earl F. Parrish


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