Thanks for the effort, Maeve, but I'm afraid I ran into a brick wall. I use Earthlink as my browser, and moving to a different browser would cause all sorts of problems. I did find Ad Aware for Earthlink, tried that, and wound up having to take my computer back to a restore point (last week) to get rid of it and the mess it made (completely blocked me from my e-mail box!). I'm back to "normal" now, but still having to deal with JustCloud.

Some years back, you could put your telephone number on the Attorney General's "Don't Call List," and if some telephone solicitor did call you, you could report them and the A.G. would smack them upside the head! With all kinds of cable and dish services these days, that's by the board now, so Barbara and I check the "caller ID" before answering the phone. If it's a number we don't recognize, we let it go to the answering machine.

Does anyone know if there is some agency similar to A.G.'s "Don't Call List" for internet users, to deal with the kind of persistent pop-up ads that practically render your computer useless for using the web?

I don't really mind running into ads (well--), but it's the nastily intrusive pop-ups like JustCloud that really get up my nose!

Don Firth