Popups on SnarkPit?

I just got a popup from casalemedia and the only site i was visiting was this one? Have we added popups to the site? anyone else get them? ALSO I know all about spyware, I battle that s**te for a living. I have no adware or spyware on my system.

You shouldn't have done, no pop ups for me. You using Internet
Explorer? Sounds suspiciously like you've been hijacked with something.

I get no pop up's on any pages, in both Firefox and IE.

no popups here either, it think you might have some spyware or something :biggrin:

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<DIV class=quotetitle>? quoting BioPulse</DIV>
<DIV class=quotetext>no popups here either, it think you might have some spyware or something :biggrin: </DIV></DIV>

grrrrr....
Using IE so it's entirely possible that one of my mates did something on here last night at the LAN party. Arseholes.....

you can get a popup with nothing to do with snarkpit, if you have some random spyware running.

XP blocks most all popups now, so i am assuming that you either have not updated or you do not use XP.

snarkpit has not caused a popup in a long time. seek out the cause elsewhere.

If you don't have it already, grab the Ad-Aware freeware from
http://www.lavasoft.de/, do a web-update, and scan your computer.
It picks up on spyware and adware and other malicious non-virus
programs and will clear your system of them. Best part is, it's
free.

Chances are you know about this, but just in case...

Or even better...switch to FireFox completely, then you'll never have to worry about getting bugged again.

That's like fixing a puncture by crushing you're bike.

Scan for spyware and evil cookies. Mouse, that, is an absolutly awsome avatar :biggrin:

Beware the Shambler!

That's like fixing a puncture by crushing you're bike.

No, it's like incinerating your old rusty saddle-less s**theap of a bike and replacing it with a mother f**king Ferrari. :biggrin:

Bah. My school uses firefox -- don't see nothin' special about it :\

But that's big talk coming from me who's very anti Linux/crappy interface anything.....

But that's big talk coming from me who's very anti Linux/crappy interface anything.....

Then why do you use internet explorer and windows?

the short comings of the current favorite web browsers has already been hashed to death guys :rolleyes:

you people have even a bigger hardon for your browser choices than i do for image sizes.. jeeez, give it a rest already.

The GUI for Linux (the variants) are pretty much like Windows. And gasp windows has a shell too.

There are still things that IE can do that FireFox can't. I try to use
FF as much as possible, but completely converting is just as stupid as
sticking 100% to any browser.

I miss the falling snarks (FF doesnt support it)

I'm not getting any popups... maybe 'cause of Proxomitron?!?

It was NOT spyware! I refuse to believe that I had spyware. AdAware didnt find it, and SpyBot didn't find it.

Looks around wildly swinging arms

YOU'RE ALL CRAZY! IT'S NOT ME THAT'S CRAZY: IT'S YOU!!!!
YOU'RE ALL CRAZY!!!!!!! AGGGHHHHHHHH!

Were you any where else on the internet before the snarkpit?

:rolleyes:

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<DIV class=quotetitle>? quoting G.Ballblue</DIV>
<DIV class=quotetext>Were you any where else on the internet before the snarkpit?

:rolleyes:

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listen here, smarty... :rolleyes:

Lol, actually it was VERY odd. I was checking for ST3AM cracks (on shady sites) on my OTHER computer. so if ANYTHING, that one should have adware... But i have not gotten another popup since then. I dunno what the deal was.

Begone vile demon, BEGONE!

weird, i must say, sounds like some shady spyware, ive seen one that
completely replaces iexplore.exe with a malformed patched version that
has a malicious popups and spyware, Try deleting iexplore.exe only if your on winxp
and have your winxp disk ready for it to tell you a critical part of
windows is missing, please insert recovery disk to continue...

It will then replace iexplore.exe with a sane version :razz: well, it did for me :biggrin:

Ad-Aware and Spybot are okay, but Spy Sweeper is a lot better. Grab the demo on Webroot's website and see if it finds anything.

Maybe it was some sort of weird fluke or coincidence, though... perhaps a site you visited previously initiated the popup, but it didn't come until later for some reason?!

A popup-blocker won't always stop adware-generated popups. Even if it does, you basically have your computer fighting itself (two programs wasting resources to counter each other), it's much better to just get rid of the adware.

Also, Service Pack 2 is the devil.

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<DIV class=quotetitle>? quoting G.Ballblue</DIV>
<DIV class=quotetext>Were you any where else on the internet before the snarkpit?</DIV></DIV>
G.Ballblue Holmes at work :kitty:

I like service pack 2... not that it does anything apart from annoy me, but the only thing I have noticed is that lanning PC's is much much easier now.

My problem is that it a) is stupid and doesn't recognize the other firewall and antivirus that I have b) the firewall keeps turning itself on again for no reason. I did like the popup blocker, though.

The BIG problem, though- on this pc it caused MAJOR problems. As in, I could not open My Computer without the window freezing and me having to reboot. Nor could I access any optical drives, even cd-rippers wouldn't work. I also got a black screen for about 45 seconds before Windows would boot. Basically SP2 totally f**ked up my pc...

I dont seem to be getting any pop ups do u have the latest windows updates?

Try getting firefox that is what I use.

I would also maybe suggest spyware doctor I believe it is called.

Firefox would supprot the falling snark's if the script was standards compliant. MSIE sports many many ugly features and allows for very bloated and buggy code.

Javascript is eveil I tell's you.

i never got a pop up in this forum before...but i do believe that hotbar AND websearch bar ARE Spywares !!!

Firefox would supprot the falling snark's if the script was standards compliant.

I was not aware that there were standards for javascript?! You have anything to back that up?

On NPR the other day I heard that they did a study of a bunch of anti-spyware tools both free and commercial like adaware, spybot, norton, etc. They found that the best program (i think it might have been spysweeper) only found about 50% of the spyware. The best of the other programs (adaware, spybot, etc) were finding around 30-40%, and the average was like 15%.

So basically the message is no anti-spyware tool can find all the spyware, and the best way to stay clean is to use a bunch of different tools.

another NPR fan..

i heard that discussion as well my friend :smile:

Yeah, at MicroCenter we recommend Spy Sweeper since it's the best rated and because we've all had the best luck with it ourselves. But we usually tell people to get Ad-Aware and Spybot, too, since they are free and will probably get a few other things. I've had situations where Spy Sweeper was the only thing that would be able to actually remove something; sometimes Ad-Aware will lock up on you :/

My friend Mario has tried a ton of these and has a website with info on the different programs:

http://www.mariosdomain.com

He despises teh spyware lol