Posted on 11/01/2002 4:45:48 PM PST by Positive
On any regular day I will go to Drudge then come to FreeRepublic, I've been doing this for years now.
Lately, when I move from one to the other I get a full screen pop-up taking me to a site called WWW.SpyOnYou.com. It always seems to occur after I click on my link to FR while on Drudge or vice versa.
I've searched for cookies and sure enough I find one - then I delete it - then later the popup occurs again - and the cookie is back.
Any ideas on how to skip this part of my internet experience?
I still can't believe that they think we are all so stupid that they can plant phoney files with imaginary viruses just to scare you into buy their updates. What a bunch of idiots.
That's the thing about Zone Alarm Pro, there's ALL sorts of configuration settings you can adjust. If you're having problems with ALL websites, I'd say you probably haven't installed it correctly. Only certain sites will cause problems under the default installation settings, and they can easily be remedied if that was in fact the case.
Since you're saying that ALL sites are causing problems, I'd recommend a full uninstall, then a reinstall. If you still have problems, get a hold of ZoneAlarm's customer support, they're usually pretty helpful...
Hmmm..anything to watch for specifically so that it's done properly since I'm NOT computer literate??
to break for new paragraph in above post thus causing a run-on sentence when I was responding to your comment re the program not properly installed..
I still can't believe that they think we are all so stupid that they can plant phoney files with imaginary viruses just to scare you into buy their updates. What a bunch of idiots.
Jorge, the Norton warnings are being generated from the Norton Anti-Virus program itself. They aren't coming from the net. You can turn off the warning somewhere in the "options" area off the norton program. Its a little different for different versions of the program, but you should be able to poke around until you find something with a check-box that says words like "Warn me when my subscription is about to expire". Unclick that and you are home-free. Of course, any new types of virus will not be detected since you won't have the latest update of virus definitions in your software. And they aren't going to give you that update if you don't buy the subscription.
I tend to NEVER let programs automatically search for updates - I'll do it myself. Why? Primarily because I don't trust them, but also because they clog up the computer by using resources that should be available for things you are working on at the moment. The auto update feature can sometimes cause conflicts as well. I had a game, Sim City 3000 that tried to access the net and update itself, but it ran in conflict with Zone Alarm and crashed itself every time. Stopped crashing when I turned off zone Alarm, but then it had free access to the net by itself.
READ this before you try it..
To uninstall, go to the Control Panel, find the Add/Remove programs icon. Click on that, find the ZoneAlarm listing, select that, hit the Remove button. Follow the instructions.
Reinstall from your copy of the ZoneAlarm Pro installation program which you should have saved somewhere on your disk.
If you don't think you can do all of the above, call ZoneAlarm support...
I wholeheartedly agree. I use Pop-Up stopper and I love it. Also, Mozilla as your primary email program has an option to turn off pop up windows while surfing.
NOt allowing pop-ups is a great feature. When you said using Mozilla as a primary e-mail program, did you really mean "using Mozilla as a primary internet program?" I haven't had a problem with popups in my e-mail.
Actually, you can do a lot to stop popups in Explorer simply by turning off various forms of scripting and active-X, but you will also lose some of the fancy web stuff. Depending on your surfing habits, that may or may not be acceptable.
Yes, I assumed they were coming from the Norton AntiVirus program, not the net since I have Live update option disabled.
They were just interupting me while I was online.
You can turn off the warning somewhere in the "options" area off the norton program. Its a little different for different versions of the program, but you should be able to poke around until you find something with a check-box that says words like "Warn me when my subscription is about to expire". Unclick that and you are home-free.
I didn't mind it telling me that it was about to expire...it's that it keeps warning me that it HAS ALREADY expired, is out of date and I needed "purchase" updates.
I have tried to configure the Norton Options and have unchecked every box that has to do with notifying me about updates and I still get the stupid warnings.
But what really ticked me off is the program generating phoney virus files and producing these pop-up alarms...telling me that it has detected files infected with viruses on my computer but wasn't able to neutralize them because my Norton Antivirus program was not up to date.
Again, So I located and checked out the files that Norton was warning me about...and I found they contained no virus..in fact... contained no data at all. Nothing. They were always empty files.
This is simply a deceptive business practice designed to scare you into purchasing more updates.
Producing phony virus files?? I apologize but I have trouble believing that Norton would do that. I would contact them if I were you, but I seriously doubt if a reasonably reputable company like Norton would do that.
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