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VANITY: I cannot stop the pop-up ads
self
| 05/08/03
| self
Posted on 05/08/2003 11:47:03 AM PDT by RaceBannon
Alright, I must have gone somewhere I shouldnt have,because I have hundreds of pop-up ads I cannot stop
TOPICS: Cheese, Moose, Sister; Chit/Chat; Computers/Internet; Miscellaneous; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: ads; annoying; faq; help; michaeldobbs; popup; spyware; techindex; virus
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To: RaceBannon
I got that when I downloaded a thing called "gatorware". It was on someone's page as a help little thing to have to view their page better. Couldn't purge my system of it fast enough.
To: RaceBannon
I got that when I downloaded a thing called "gatorware". It was on someone's page as a help little thing to have to view their page better. Couldn't purge my system of it fast enough.
To: RaceBannon
I got that when I downloaded a thing called "gatorware". It was on someone's page as a help little thing to have to view their page better. Couldn't purge my system of it fast enough.
To: N. Theknow
It also made me triple post on FR sometimes.
To: RaceBannon
My AOL stops the popups dead in their tracks.
To: Howlin
Will give panicware a shot. Thanks Howlin and Race for the bump.
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posted on
05/08/2003 2:06:25 PM PDT
by
eternity
(From here to...)
To: eternity
It works the best for me; I've tried others and when I tried to open another IE window or a Windows drop down box, those programs would "kill" them, too.
This program doesn't do that; just remember -- sometimes you have to hold down the CONTROL key to get a window to open!
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posted on
05/08/2003 2:18:37 PM PDT
by
Howlin
To: Mister Magoo; RaceBannon
I have IE, 2 versions of Netscape, and Mozilla. Mozilla is great at stopping popups. I like the "tabs" feature also (multiple windows are tabbed in the same frame.)
28
posted on
05/08/2003 2:22:23 PM PDT
by
dark_lord
(The Statue of Liberty now holds a baseball bat and she's yelling 'You want a piece of me?')
To: RaceBannon
http://www.lavasoft.nu/
Download ad aware, the free version. Nuke the spyware on your computer. Spyware is responsible for a lot of popups.
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posted on
05/08/2003 2:50:18 PM PDT
by
LibKill
(MOAB, the greatest advance in Foreign Relations since the cat-o'-nine-tails!)
To: LibKill; Ernest_at_the_Beach; *tech_index
By the way, Ernest knows a lot of good tech types, maybe he'll ping a few for us.
30
posted on
05/08/2003 2:51:47 PM PDT
by
LibKill
(MOAB, the greatest advance in Foreign Relations since the cat-o'-nine-tails!)
To: RaceBannon
I use AdAware, but I also make sure to run SpyBot. Unfortunately, I don't have the link for download right in front of me, but its probably used by more IT departments than AdAware.
31
posted on
05/08/2003 3:07:15 PM PDT
by
tarawa
To: RaceBannon; LibKill
32
posted on
05/08/2003 3:13:57 PM PDT
by
Ernest_at_the_Beach
(Recall Gray Davis and then start on the other Democrats)
- Reject Annoying Popups
Hate popups ads? NetCaptor blocks unrequested popups! - Clean Up After Yourself
NetCaptor's secure clean up feature obliterates your cache, history, cookies, AutoComplete and other private data by overwriting it 1 to 35 times before deletion. - Block Ads
NetCaptor blocks band-width sucking ads, web bugs, and other stuff you don't want to see. - Save Time
Open sites on separate tabs for lightening fast simultaneous downloads. Control media loading for extra speed. - Navigate Faster
QuickSearch and Alias features make navigation and searching as easy as a keypress. - Control Your Privacy
NetCaptor makes it easy to control 1st and 3rd-party cookies and P3P privacy policies.
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posted on
05/08/2003 3:15:32 PM PDT
by
Ernest_at_the_Beach
(Recall Gray Davis and then start on the other Democrats)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; *all
I just uploaded the newest Ad Aware, and that found more than the version I already had on my computer!
It found 27 files from xupiter, and a few cookies that were newspaper connected.
We'll see if it changes my home page still!
To: RaceBannon
I want to thank you for posting this thread! Those darn popup ads have been driving me nuts, and until I noticed an Response touting the benefits of a free program from Panicware I was resigned to just live with them.
Now, thanks to you and another poster I just installed the popup blocker and tester it on a web site I maintain over at GeoCities. It removed every one of those pop ups.
Thanks again!
35
posted on
05/08/2003 4:38:35 PM PDT
by
An Old Man
(USMC 1956 1960)
To: RaceBannon
36
posted on
05/08/2003 7:23:04 PM PDT
by
Starwind
To: RaceBannon
Did you get hit with Xupiter? That is the worst thing to get hit with on the web. They will throw 1000s of ads at one time on, and as you click them off, often people accidentally hit "agree" to download their software and changes/highjacks their home page.
37
posted on
05/08/2003 7:34:43 PM PDT
by
FUMETTI
(Support Santorum)
To: FUMETTI
adsbgone seems to have destroyed it, that or the new Ad Aware I used, but I still have some worm that changes my home page to www.i-look.com
How do I find where that source code is?
To: FUMETTI; RaceBannon
I got hit with that damn XUPITER a few months ago... it is the WORST, just as you described. It was like my computer was being attacked by thousands of pop-up ads in a matter of seconds! :(
Race... are you back?
39
posted on
05/08/2003 7:43:34 PM PDT
by
nutmeg
(USA: Land of the Free - Thanks to the Brave)
To: RaceBannon
You could try to turn off JAVA scripting to keep it from changing your home page then turn the scripting back on after a reboot. More than likely you still have spyware on your system. Try the spybot suggested in post 36, it seems to be more thorough than Ad Aware.
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posted on
05/08/2003 7:56:13 PM PDT
by
Brett66
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