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Thanks again for the replies.
"did you visit the website?"
Yes - but oddly enough, there is nothing there for me to do. It's just filled with suggestions on how to get rid of a bot. Install antivirus sw, scan for malware, etc. But seeing as I dont have a bot, that's not going to help.
"You don't know what started these things off?"
I am trying to figure that out, but they pop up randomly, so I really have no idea.
"You don't have a program named constant guard installed? "
No I dont.
"You could call comcast and ask whats up."
I did. They told me that this is normal behaviour when their server identifies what it thinks is a bot. But as I stated earlier, they also told me that many things can give a false positive.
"Why would you have something that claims to want to help you while obstructing your view? "
That's partly my point.
" IE9 is an update to IE8 and may help"
No, it wont. 1) Comcast told me it wont, and 2) If the Comcast server is sending those out when it thinks it is necessary, it's not going to send those things out to customers who have IE8, but not those who have IE9. Those pop ups are going to happen in every browser - IE 8, IE 9, FFox, Chrome, Safari, etc.
"If true...you have a "Bot" as defined by "Comcast" so perhaps you should ask them why they sent you a popup.
I did ask. They cant tell me what sets it off. Which really pisses me off, BTW.
"Did you install software from Comcast that might allow them to create popups on your PC?"
I have even gotten confirmation from Comcast that the pop ups will occur with no sw installed.
"If false...you have malware causing the popup which can't be believed. That's why I suggested running MSS (or your antivirus) and also MalwareBytes. "
I do NOT have any malware. So I amnot understanding what MSS is going to do here. I have no malware, and those pop-ups are not malware. What is MSS going to do?
There HAS to be a way to disable these things from popping up.
Thanks again.