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Postby BigZam » Sat Mar 25, 2006 6:21 am

ok i've been getting alot of pop ups lately....only they're actual dialog boxes. they pop up like when you click on a link and it takes you to another site. my pop-up blocker is quite strong and has always blocked pop ups before. this only happens if i click on certain links but the link has nothing to do with the popup. most of these popups are just virus protection ad things but i just got a porn one.....whats going on here?
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Postby Silent Hunter » Sat Mar 25, 2006 7:28 am

That's awfully odd, I must say. Sadly, I don't know enough about computers to give an answer, but do these come from frequently visited sites? Is it possible you have told your browswer to allow popups from certain sites? anyhoo, I hope you get it under control

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Postby everdred12a » Sat Mar 25, 2006 9:44 am

Maybe you got some adware or something?

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Postby BigZam » Sat Mar 25, 2006 12:35 pm

Silent Hunter wrote:That's awfully odd, I must say. Sadly, I don't know enough about computers to give an answer, but do these come from frequently visited sites? Is it possible you have told your browswer to allow popups from certain sites? anyhoo, I hope you get it under control

they come from sites i've never seen before....and it could be adware. we've always got adware...i think my dad scanned for that though cuz its happening to everybody.
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Postby Arnobius » Sat Mar 25, 2006 1:27 pm

If it's coming up no matter what, it is probably adware on your system
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Postby frwl » Sat Mar 25, 2006 1:48 pm

you mean like on ebaumsworld.com? Yeah, no popup blocker I know can stop those...
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Postby BigZam » Sun Mar 26, 2006 1:10 pm

AnimeHeretic wrote:If it's coming up no matter what, it is probably adware on your system

well my dad scanned for adware and deleted all that he found but it didn't stop...
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Postby Bobtheduck » Sun Mar 26, 2006 1:30 pm

frwl wrote:you mean like on ebaumsworld.com? Yeah, no popup blocker I know can stop those...


That sounds like a challenge!

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Postby Mr. Rogers » Tue Mar 28, 2006 10:51 am

do you use firefox or internet explorer?
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Postby BigZam » Thu Mar 30, 2006 2:15 pm

i use IE. it just won't seem to go away.
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Postby Deny_Yourself » Thu Mar 30, 2006 2:22 pm

BigZam wrote:ok i've been getting alot of pop ups lately....only they're actual dialog boxes. they pop up like when you click on a link and it takes you to another site. my pop-up blocker is quite strong and has always blocked pop ups before. this only happens if i click on certain links but the link has nothing to do with the popup. most of these popups are just virus protection ad things but i just got a porn one.....whats going on here?



That's been happening to me, too. It got so bad I got Ad-Aware on top of Norton (which I already had), but when I tried to do a deep scan, my computer shut down! grrrrrr

My husband installed Firefox, and it's stopped. *hopes*
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Postby BigZam » Fri Mar 31, 2006 2:54 pm

Deny_Yourself wrote:That's been happening to me, too. It got so bad I got Ad-Aware on top of Norton (which I already had), but when I tried to do a deep scan, my computer shut down! grrrrrr

My husband installed Firefox, and it's stopped. *hopes*

well this might not be just me then. cuz my friend has got some of the sames ones i've gotten.
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Postby chibiphonebooth » Fri Mar 31, 2006 3:04 pm

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Postby Warrior4Christ » Sat Apr 01, 2006 6:21 am

Excellent, phone booth-èd one.

LAMEZ0RZ!!1!1 LOL!!

(that must be with a tablet - it's too neat for a mouse!)
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Postby chibiphonebooth » Sat Apr 01, 2006 12:44 pm

Warrior4Christ wrote:Excellent, phone booth-èd one.

LAMEZ0RZ!!1!1 LOL!!

(that must be with a tablet - it's too neat for a mouse!)



yeah. i have a tablet. it is my best friend. :D
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Postby BigZam » Tue Apr 11, 2006 3:03 pm

so um can someone help me with this instead of posting useless images?
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Postby TurkishMonky » Tue Apr 11, 2006 5:38 pm

i would say get firefox on your comp, with the adblock plus and filterset.G plugins, and see if that helps.
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Postby Mithrandir » Tue Apr 11, 2006 6:27 pm

Is it possible to install firefox on the computer? What you are describing in actually the reason quite a few people have switched to Firefox.

You can always uninstall it, if you don't like it.
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