Do a google search on a program called Adaware or Ad-Aware. This will find advertising programs on your PC such as Gator, and those loaded by many "free" screensaver utilities and mp3 sharing programs. It will give you the option of unloading any offending programs. -Adam Orbit Communications wrote: >Has anyone else here been bombarded with unsolicited messages from www.byebyeads.com ? > >Anyone know how I can prevent these pop-up messages from being received on my PC ? > >-- >http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different >ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details. > > > > > -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.