AOL have been sending all spam mail into a seperate spam file and like you, I would go into it every once in a while to see if there were any emails that I needed to wanted to see. But lately AOL seems to been letting just about all spam come into my emails instead of sending them to spam. I put the spam addresses into a special file in AOL and AOL will either just delete them or allow me to read but the problem with this is that the spammers just keep changing their email addresses. I use IE mostly although I when I run my cleaner I see files to be deleted from both Chrome and Firefox. I will look to see if either uses AdBlock as a "add-on" if I can find it. -----Original Message----- From: Joy Gulden <jegulden@gmail.com> To: gen-newbie <gen-newbie@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wed, Mar 26, 2014 10:54 am Subject: Re: [GN] off subject, hope no one minds (Spam e-mails and popups) For those who are getting popups when you are using the internet, have you checked to see if your browser has an "add-on" that will eliminate them? I have used Internet Explorer, Firefox and now Chrome and they each have an add on for this. I do not get any adds or pop ups by using these. The one for Chrome is AdBlock and if I remember correctly, the names are similar in the other browsers. I would recommend doing a search something like -- Internet Explorer add on -- or -- Firefox add on -- as I just did one for Chrome add on to find the name of the one I use in Chrome. FYI -- As far as the spam in emails -- I use gmail and have it POPed into my email program. I do not get any spam. Gmail does an exceptional job of keeping what they consider spam in a spam file at the on-line gmail site, then you can just page through to see if something that you want has been added to the spam file. My ISP email program also keeps a spam file and I check that one to see if there is something that I need in that file. Hope one of these hints help. Joy On 3/26/2014 4:42 AM, wstjs@aol.com wrote: > I was getting more and annoying pop ups before this problem with spams began. The pop ups are a little better now but still get them and very annoying if I am in the midst of writing something important. > > Janet > --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com ******************** Gen-Newbie's website: http://www.rootsweb.com/~newbie/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GEN-NEWBIE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Th blocker for popups does not work well in firfox , especially with sites like ebay. Internet Explorer does a much better job. Firefox on Linux works perfectly, however for a number of reasons I have migrated back to Microsoft. Regards Peter Goggin