We asked Rootsweb about the pop up ads and spam that has been steadily increasing, especially as a couple of subscribers had commented on this, below is their reply Chris and Caroline Hi Chris, Neither RootsWeb nor Ancestry sells our subscriber lists. We recognize that pop-under ads may seem more intrusive than the ads we have had on Freepages in the past. Unfortunately, as the costs of maintaining free hosting on RootsWeb continues to rise, and the revenue generated by less intrusive ads keeps declining, we had to implement the pop-under ads to continue to finance this service. --- All of our Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. And attachments are also scanned before being added. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.476 / Virus Database: 273 - Release Date: 24/04/2003