BackupPlan - Transcript - Hour 1, Segment 3

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David Lawrence: Which is probably your IP Address.

Sanford: So but you know I try and exit out or I get okay you know its like messages for different blocking services and I think there was one for sometime a porn site?

David Lawrence: Right so these are gray right?

Sanford: Yeah.

David Lawrence: Yeah so what you are getting is Windows Messenger Popup Ads, built into the Windows Operating System is a system called Messenger. And Messenger was designed so that if an IT Systems Administrator at a large company had to send out a message to everybody on the network say you got hundred employees at your company and you are about to take the network down to do some work on it. He could popup this little gray box, popup to say hey save work in 5 minutes we are going to shutdown the network or just want to let you know that chilly is hot and afternoon picnic is being held out on the lawn in an hour. The point is that particular built-in process has been co-opted by spammers because if that particular option is left open on your machine they can weasel their way and send you popup ads that can be dangerous frankly. So here is what I would like you do. I actually have a little E-mail that I can send back to you it*s an auto response. So anybody that has an E-mail send me an E-mail and in the subject line says how do I turn off Windows Messenger Popups and I will automatically send you back the answer its different for different flavors of Window well that*s how we will deal with that alright.

Sanford: Okay thanks.

David Lawrence: Alright I appreciate the call, back in a moment.

David Lawrence: The Geek Speak phrase for this hour where we take a tech term and turn it into plain English before your very ears is Java, Java we hear about this all the time Java get to that in just a moment, this portion of the show brought to you Mac OS X Unwired the new book by Tom Negrino and Dori Smith a complete guide to wireless information for Macintosh users and everybody who use computer actually. Especially in a mixed environment tells you how the Macintosh gets buy and kills with WiFi www.macosxunwired.com is the website. Also brought to you by Sonic Memo if you want to add instant audio to your site just like we have for our random audio samples for the show that*s fine just go to www.onlinetonight.com/sonicmemo, one thing I didn*t mention in terms of set an E-mail and Instant Messages and all that is that you can also visit the website www.onlinetonight.com and I didn*t mentioned that yet because I haven*t yet selected the name of the

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