[tsomer]

I'm a dud with computers, but one time I got fed up with someone forwarding stupid emails to me. After I requested they stop a couple of times, I forwarded all of the copies forwarded back to the offender's server. I don't even recall how I did it, but the term is "bombing," I think.
It worked.
Could something of that sort be devised for these parasites? Defensive approaches are hog-tying us.

[Dec31,1999]

I doubt it. I'm no computer wiz, either. Just use spybot and adaware. Run them both and then find an alternate browser as suggested above. IE is terrible, as the scammers always find a way around its defenses precisely because it is the most used browser world-wide.

I'll tell you what. I'll try IE right now just to see how it goes. Been a long time, now.

[Dec31,1999]

What a mistake that was! I got an "anti-spyware" pop-up, one of six pop-ups and followed it to the end where they wanted a credit card number and $30. Oh well.

IE is useless. Microsoft garbage. At least on this machine. I cannot tolerate pop-ups.