Thank you MarkJoy and VApilot.
I hadn't looked at it as coming from outside. However, given the general antipathy towards spam, how do these software 'blaggers' get away with this unasked-for interference?
I seem to recall that it happened a couple of years back on Pprune when Flash Player was still Macromedia - it was suggested then that the answer was to install the

program. I like the idea of using something, anything, which doesn't originate with either Macromedia or Adobe.

Will try to sort it that way. Thanks again and Merry Xmas.