Re: Pop-ups galore
Posted by omegaslayer on
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For some reason today Ive been getting tons and tons of pop-up ads, more than usual, is there a reason for all this? Is there anyway to stop it? Do I want an add for Club Jenna when im about to make a head shot in counter strike? NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!! Im sick of them as Im typing this I just got 5 ads for realistate. I mean im beating them off with a stick as they come. IS THERE ANY WAY TO STOP THEM?
Re: Pop-ups galore
Posted by Wild Card on
Fri Mar 26th 2004 at 1:00am
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I never get pop ups from Snarkpit.
Re: Pop-ups galore
Posted by Gorbachev on
Fri Mar 26th 2004 at 1:02am
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Sounds like spyware to me.
Re: Pop-ups galore
Posted by Orpheus on
Fri Mar 26th 2004 at 1:02am
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at home on my DSL i never get them, but at my dads on dial-up, i get them every click of the mouse :sad:
wonder whats the diff between dial-up and DSL?
could it be my router? he has XP home and i am running 2000pro and XP pro.
Re: Pop-ups galore
Posted by omegaslayer on
Fri Mar 26th 2004 at 1:04am
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Spyware? maybe I should up my firewall.
Re: Pop-ups galore
Posted by Wild Card on
Fri Mar 26th 2004 at 1:13am
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If you've installed Ad Aware, run it. Then start the scan. Once its finished, just click all the checkboxes to the files it found and click next.
Re: Pop-ups galore
Posted by Orpheus on
Fri Mar 26th 2004 at 1:14am
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(Scripts are not allowed!)
can't recall about adaware, but spybot will allow you to immunize and block many future issues.. i prefer spybot..
but you must chose, cause adaware and spybot do not like each other..
google search spybot
Re: Pop-ups galore
Posted by omegaslayer on
Fri Mar 26th 2004 at 1:14am
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well yeah I did that, but it didnt delete some due to the fact I was running them.
Re: Pop-ups galore
Posted by Wild Card on
Fri Mar 26th 2004 at 1:16am
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So do Ctrl+Alt+Del and shut down those programs, then delete them.
Re: Pop-ups galore
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Fri Mar 26th 2004 at 1:25am
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Thanks all everythings cleared now, I had about 219 files that ad ware found. ugghhhh thank WC.
Re: Pop-ups galore
Posted by Wild Card on
Fri Mar 26th 2004 at 1:26am
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If you run Ad Aware every week (if you do lots of surfing on different sites) if not, every 2 weeks should do.
Re: Pop-ups galore
Posted by Wild Card on
Fri Mar 26th 2004 at 1:30am
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I scratch my ass. Jon's the one who stick fingers up there :biggrin:
/Runs. ... very very fast
Re: Pop-ups galore
Posted by Wild Card on
Fri Mar 26th 2004 at 1:37am
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Ok, no more jokes today, I bit something and my gum is bleeding again. Looks like Leppy will have his hands busy for the next little while.
Re: Pop-ups galore
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Fri Mar 26th 2004 at 1:38am
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(Scripts are not allowed!)
i am gonna reboot, maybe something i have running in the background is doing it :sad:
Re: Pop-ups galore
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Fri Mar 26th 2004 at 1:41am
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(Scripts are not allowed!) ok, re-booted, lets see what happens next :/
(Scripts are not allowed!)
[edit] screw it.. i am gonna hop over to other comp, till lep sorts this crap out..
Re: Pop-ups galore
Posted by Wild Card on
Fri Mar 26th 2004 at 1:44am
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reformat :biggrin: Thats what Im doing later tonight.
Re: Pop-ups galore
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Fri Mar 26th 2004 at 1:54am
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Where is he hidding anyways?
Re: Pop-ups galore
Posted by Juim on
Fri Mar 26th 2004 at 1:57am
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If you are referring to those grey pop up ads on your desktop, there is another way to stop them.On you computer go to:
control panel/administrative tools/services
now scroll down to messenger and set it to manual or disable (I personally dont use messenger so I just disabled it)
This will stop unwanted pop ups while playing CS.
Hope this helps!
Re: Pop-ups galore
Posted by Wild Card on
Fri Mar 26th 2004 at 1:58am
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I forgot about that Jinx. I know about it though. And if you mean MSN messenger, you can still use it even though you disable messanger. Cause thats like a Windows messanger thingy
Re: Pop-ups galore
Posted by Juim on
Fri Mar 26th 2004 at 2:01am
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Jinx?, I did'nt see a post from him here?
Re: Pop-ups galore
Posted by Wild Card on
Fri Mar 26th 2004 at 2:02am
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I thought I saw Jinx. Sorry juim. Meant you.
Must be the drugs. :biggrin:
Re: Pop-ups galore
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Fri Mar 26th 2004 at 3:27am
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I prefer Spybot way more than Ad-Aware, I've tried both but ad-aware seemed to, well, addy for me. The best combination for ad blocking is to use a program to block ads (ZoneAlarm has one) and then set cookies to prompt, and only allow the select few pages you need to have cookies and from then on your scans will be clean like my own.
Re: Pop-ups galore
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Fri Mar 26th 2004 at 10:22am
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Mozilla blocks all web popups by default :smile:
Re: Pop-ups galore
Posted by KoRnFlakes on
Fri Mar 26th 2004 at 10:44am
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google toolbar blocks popups. ive blocked 269. it also lets you whitelist certain sites like fileplanet that you need popups for :smile:
Re: Pop-ups galore
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Fri Mar 26th 2004 at 10:46am
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So does mozilla! And without having to install a 3rd part search bar (it already has a google search box). I'm detirmined to get everyone to use mozilla firefox :smile:
Re: Pop-ups galore
Posted by matt on
Fri Mar 26th 2004 at 11:11am
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When I used Addware last night it removed over 300 cookies and other rubbish.
Re: Pop-ups galore
Posted by Leperous on
Fri Mar 26th 2004 at 11:44am
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lol Orph you seem to have a program running on your computer that sticks in Javascript on HTML pages- I'm guessing you installed a popup stopper? In which case get rid of it, Google toolbar works 99%
Re: Pop-ups galore
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Fri Mar 26th 2004 at 5:11pm
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I downloaded spybot and it seems grand. Only thing is it takes ages to update compared to adaware. Probably worth it if it does in fact find more stuff.
Re: Pop-ups galore
Posted by Wild Card on
Fri Mar 26th 2004 at 8:44pm
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Reformat again :biggrin: I just did.