I now need to find out how to block it and avoid the annoying pop ups There's a file called 'hosts' on your machine. IN w95/98/ME it's in C:windows, on XP, NT and 2K it's somewhere under C:windowssystem32 -- I don't remember where. It's a text file. It's your internal DNS, actually. You can add any domain name here and give it an IP address and windows won't ask any DNS for that domain name. You should see one called 'localhost' that points at 127.0.0.1. That's your loopback address. Using the same format, add any popup server or adserver (check image properties) you run across and give in the same IP address. Eventually every offsite hosted banner you run across, popup or not, will be replaced with a broken image. Broken images look terrible, but they look better than 'Shoot the monkey and win a million dollars' Java crap.