Also you can just go offline and open it if you have
a dialup connection like I do

That's an alternative, but I highly recommend BSPlayer . It's a lightweight player, skinnable, free, but fully featured that supports almost all video formats: AVI (you need required codecs -same as Windows Media Player-), ASF, WMV, DAT (VCD and MPEG2), Mpeg... I hate Windows Media Player, I have the default version that has WinME, but that's all, I never updated it...

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I like Mplayer 6.8x... loads fast, simple, works.. 7.x/8 are horrid on resources and bulky.

go to http://www.mandrake.com and install this OS and forget about viruses.
Why you would still use a OS and/or a "media player" that doesen't have scripting OFF as a default (if you can even turn it off anyway) is beyond me.
Outlook has the same problem, never, ever let anyone run a program on your computer!
It's like letting other people run whatever they want on your computer, what are you stupid or something?
Stop using microsoft products!

you really are a moron aren't you

Unregistered,

Does the browser you are using to read these pages have the scripting turned off by default?

yes, go get mozilla 1.0 and linux and relax
mozilla will even let you turn javascript on but you can disable pop up windows and other lame **** stuff
you should write web masters of any of these web sites that make you use pop up windows to see things you need to see when they could do it the "old" way. This just makes it so that more and more ad companies can annoy you, and these web masters are helping promote this abuse.