Marque, setting the cookies to reject 3rd party cookies doesn't interfere with going to sites. and will often stop this type of issue. if one of the ads in a popup is not on tripod's server and is linking to another site then it could be the source of the gator thing. diviner, most free site's are problematical with ftp, you can find a pay hosting service for as little as 8 USD a month. paying gets rid of ads from host so you have better control over this ype of issue for your products. http://nzwebit.com is a good economical host just checked thier site, 8 a year for a site with domain name included. 3gb space.