Win XP Advertising?

[raine]

I downloaded Microsoft's latest security updates last night, and this morning when I booted, I noticed I keep getting a little flashing alert icon (bell shaped). When I mouse over it, it says "click here for your holiday discount". When I click on it, nothing happens. When I right click on it, I'm given the options of "open message", or "leave it". I recall having to disable some XP advertising when I first purchased this machine, but I forgot how to do it. Is this XP advertising? Can't seem to make it go away! What's up?

Raine

[Viktoria]

Originally posted by raine
I downloaded Microsoft's latest security updates last night, and this morning when I booted, I noticed I keep getting a little flashing alert icon (bell shaped). When I mouse over it, it says "click here for your holiday discount". When I click on it, nothing happens. When I right click on it, I'm given the options of "open message", or "leave it". I recall having to disable some XP advertising when I first purchased this machine, but I forgot how to do it. Is this XP advertising? Can't seem to make it go away! What's up?

Raine

http://www.grc.com/freepopular.htm

Have fun shooting the messenger

~Viktoria