Pop Ups

Postby drawscore » Sat Sep 13, 2014 1:27 am

Can somebody PLEASE do something about the damned annoying pop up ads about "hot deals" on the left side of the screen, and "recently bought" at the bottom?

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Re: Pop Ups

Postby xtc » Sat Sep 13, 2014 2:01 am

Using Firefox and I'm not getting pop-ups.
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Re: Pop Ups

Postby tony2 » Sat Sep 13, 2014 3:41 am

Look in delete programs and see if there is one that has advertisement or the like in it. Then look at the date of install. if you didn't install it, delete it. Also if you are using CHROME there are a couple of good add blocks that will load onto it from the Google CHROME site. You may have a trojan on your system that keeps installing the add program. Last idea -- many of these add sites will identify the provider if you find it and click on it. They will often have a one click opt out option which may take care of your problem.
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Re: Pop Ups

Postby drawscore » Sat Sep 13, 2014 3:20 pm

I think the problem has been solved. Sometimes these ads come as undisclosed parts of files or programs that I do download. So, I deleted everything I had downloaded in the last two weeks, and the problem went away.

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Re: Pop Ups

Postby staythirstymyfriends » Thu Sep 18, 2014 12:53 am

Yes, that demon spawn (aka trojan pop-up ads) has gotten more prevalent over time. They're a danged nuisance, for sure. Did you have the one where it double-underlines keywords and pops an ad up when you scroll over the target? What a pain.

Anyway, that is indeed a trojan program. I think it's harmless, but anything a company sneaks in on you has to be looked at. It's borderline unethical.

You can delete this kind of thing, but you have to go to the control panel setup in Windows and do it from there to extirpate it totally. And it does come as a piggy-back on other progs you install. Be sure to read the whole TOS on ancillary programs and uncheck everything you don't want. Some put "Decline" in a dark gray button, 1/2 ghosted, as the uncheck mechanism. Read carefully...
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Re: Pop Ups

Postby lockedup » Mon Sep 22, 2014 3:36 pm

when you use an adblocker and you watch youtube videos, the person you're watching doesn't earn any money from your view. so please don't use it on youtube.

removing crap that something installed on your browser can be really annoying. you'll have to mess around with your browser settings & uninstall the program.

make sure you have ONE anti virus program. having two is going to confuse your computer and probably make it less secure, and less stable, causing BSODs.

i use AVG free antivirus. antivirus will detect most viruses, but not all of them. use common sense. i've never gotten a virus cause i know if something sounds too good to be true, it probably is. to be honest though to get a virus with an antivirus installed usually it's due to you being retarded, watching too much porn, or illegally downloading dodgy files.
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Re: Pop Ups

Postby Jason Toddman » Tue Sep 23, 2014 2:09 pm

Those ads definitely had nothing to do with this site.
If you don't already use Firefox as a browser, you should start doing so. It automatically blocks pop-ups unless you tell it site-by-site to allow them. makes life a lot easier compared to using internet explorer, that's for sure.
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Re: Pop Ups

Postby staythirstymyfriends » Sat Sep 27, 2014 9:41 pm

There are also pop-unders that very briefly flash on your screen and are then relegated to the taskbar, usually as a 2nd window for your browser. Those are the ones that seemingly nothing and nobody can prevent. Never mind the Java ads that appear seamlessly with the opening of a new page; Yahoo is great about including those. You have to find the "close ad" X in among about 1000 colors, characters, and images. Whoever can devise a program to defeat all these ad menaces gets a free tie and tickle from me (if female) or a set of gag, cuffs, and blindfold (if male)... :)
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Re: Pop Ups

Postby Jason Toddman » Sun Sep 28, 2014 4:02 am

staythirstymyfriends wrote:There are also pop-unders that very briefly flash on your screen and are then relegated to the taskbar, usually as a 2nd window for your browser.

I never see those either. The only time i'm bothered by ads anywhere is when I want to see a youtube video or a video news-feed at Yahoo News; no way to avoid those as far as I know since those aren't pop-ups.
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