why do I get unsolicited sales promotion sites opened on my internet explorer without asking?
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You have a spyware on your computer.  You probably downloaded it with a file sharing program or something you got for free on the internet.  Get a spyware detector and it should beable to remove it.  Get one from a trusted source though, some say they remove spyware, but they actually are spyware.
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It is an annoying plug in that generates advertising on your PC.  It poses a moderate threat.  However, your best bet is to remove it.\n\nThis adware program is in the form of a browser plugin. This toolbar program makes www.starware.com your IE browser's start page. Using this toolbar to search will give the user places where they can buy products from their affiliates. Even when you do not use this search engine for you searches(such as google.com), it will monitor the search behavior and display advertisements at the bottom on your IE browser.\n\nSee the link below for full information.
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You're looking at a sales scare, made by a company that thinks it's better to scare it's customers into buying their products as opposed to purchasing programs of your choice. A popup blocker will stop the problem. It's not a Microsoft Windows warning so send it to the trash. Larry Radio Shack 01-9590
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You may have Spyware or Adware.  Try running Spybot S&D and Lavasoft Ad-Aware.
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You got some sort of malware.  DL Spybot and Ad-aware.  Run them a few times.  SpySweeper would also help gt rid of stuff.\n\nBe careful on sites esp that comes form official type emails.  Go directly to the site and not click thrus.  You have to think and be careful about using the net.  Its the same as giving out your personal info to a caller from any bank or cedit card company.  Call the company directly yourself.  Its the same thing with the net.\n\nSo back to your problem get some malware software and run them each a few times.  Update and run them regularly too.
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you deff have a hijacker on your browser.  try mozilla firefox-it prevents a lot of adware and such.  if you still wan tto use internet explorer, first navigate to a site using your favorites, then go get ad-aware to rmove any malicious software
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It sees that you been under a Browser hijack Attack.\n\nFollow these simple steps.\n\n1) Uninstall any Suspicious softwares from Add/Remove programs\n2) Disable all the Startup programs \n   Start-> Run and typein "msconfig" without qoutes and click on the "Startup" tab and diable all\n\n3) Optimise the Internet Explorer by\n   Tools-> Internet Options and perform the following steps ... \n\n   a) Delete Cookies\n   b) Delete Files\n   c) Settings->View Objects and delete all the objects (This step is very Important)\n   d) Open the Advanced tab and uncheck the option Enable 3rd party browser Extension\n\n4) Download and install the Ad-Aware SE Personal from http://lavasoftusa.com and run a spyware check.
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Ok action cancelled appears when Internet Explorer should have a page loaded or is the "action cancelled" appearing on webpages where advertising banners should be?\n\nSome action cancelled on banners and/or popup (independent) ads could be a firewall blocking cookies (i.e. tracking cookies) or it could be your internet explorer security settings are cranked up to "paranoid security guard" levels...\nTry checking Internet Explorer via "Tools" then internet options, then security.....then set them to default.\nWhile there - try clearing out your temporary internet files by going to the tab that says "General" in internet options and clicking on the button that says "delete files"\nit may be that that folder is overloaded. \nYou can also run a scan at panda anitivirus or trend micro's Housecall site to check for viruses and/or spyware/adware stuff.
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in the popup blocker there's probably a part to "always allow this site" to have popups.  I know Yahoo's popup blocker on their toolbar has this
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It's probably just an ad. Make sure your pop-up blocker on internet explorer is enabled.
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Iggy is right, and if you open it you are in trouble.  It's just a scam to get into your privacy and attach a virus or worse.  When you see these popups, just click on the x in the upper right corner.  That is until you get your popup blocker set.
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You need an anti-virus and an anti-spyware program.\nThe pop-ups are perhaps resulted some spyware activity. Visit the links below.
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This is not a question. It's a sneaky way to do free advertising.
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Some sites are tailored for Internet Explorer. Unfortunately it is still a fairly commonly held myth that everyone worth getting to view your site will be using this browser so people will make a user 'have' to use it.\n\nSometimes it is through the bits used in the site (active-x and such) and other times they just stop you looking if you are not using a browser 'they' want you to.\n\nGo figure *shrug*
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you said you get a message from a "website"....\ni'm assuming you are getting pop-up windows?\n\nthere are several free pop-up blockers on the web. i also think you should run a adware/spyware scanner remover.\n\ninstall a fire wall and worse case senario format your pc and reload the operating system.
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How do I know you are running Microsoft Internet Explorer, and not Firefox or Opera or any other browser...\n\nbecause Microsoft Permits naughty scripts to do naughty things! It has so many pop-up questions that it is difficult to tell what is important and what is not.\n\nTurning on javascript alone does not clobber everything... but MS's javascript + activeX can do that!\n\nJust say no to viruses and spyware (get protection!!!) or just getfirefox (http://getfirefox.com)
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Try running something like Spybot or Ad-Aware they are pretty good at removing malicious cookies and other things and they are free