I found a (so far) good program called "Spybot Search and Destroy" that fishes out most of the really grungy spyware programs, and also has a middling length list of opt-out addresses for the more "legitimate" spammers. Mike Hord >From: "M. Adam Davis" >Reply-To: pic microcontroller discussion list >To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU >Subject: Re: [OT]: Unsolicited Messages >Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 12:23:45 -0400 > >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. _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.