| Problems With Pop Up Ads....PLEASE HELP! | |
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 Hi, I'm having problems with pop up ads. NOT the messenger ads associated with Windows XP but ads that pop up through Internet Explorer...I'm running Yahoo Toolbar with popup blocker but theyre still getting through and I have it up to date. This is seriously getting on my nerves and its popping up crap anywhere from online poker to ads talking about "There might be spyware on your computer you better click here now!" and all that crap. What in the heck is going on!? I ran spyware checks on 3 different softwares and nothing is detected!  _______________ 4/20/2005----Left the academy because I did'nt feel welcomed. |
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JavaGuy - Student 
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Has anybody thought of tracking down the authors of some spyware programs and just beating them within an inch of their lives? A few well-publicized such incidents could really do a lot of good.  _______________ My signature is only one line. You're welcome. |
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Gradius - Ex-Student 
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Or just reformat your hard drive (delete everything on it) and start over!  _______________ - Proud padawan of Kueller. - We really are at the beginning of it all. The trick, of course, is to make sure we never find the end. - Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything - <gen-e-sis-happy> Liek, you can train, liek, a n00b, but he'll just be a trained n00b... --> Wise words! - "daer SOE me likes your a company i am having your some money for letting me do stuff cos mes the best amd i do it all meself" - Slider |
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Jaina D'Kana - Jedi Instructor 
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also if none of that works get a program called hijack this _______________ INTP |
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solitude - Jedi Council 
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They also show each other up as spyware. _______________ Joined 16 October 2004 | Retired 10 April 2005 | Returned 05 June 2008 | Made Staff 27 June 2008 | Made Council 18 January 2009 Padawan To Odan-Wei Belouve | Adopted into the Belouve family | Twin to xAnAtOs | Owner of the 4th Quesi sexy badge Brother To Roan Belouve, Nomad, Majno, Silkmonkey, Kensei and Jarhok Belouve
Owner Of Virtue's 1000th profile comment, Mr. Doobie's 1000th profile comment, Gradius' 2500th comment, xAnAtOs' 2500th comment, Rosered's 1500th comment, Laziana's 900th comment, Scythus' 500th comment and Echuu's 100th comment |
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Dicemaster - Student 
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i'd say get mozilla firefox, spybot search and destroy, and ad-aware use both spybot and ad-aware because they catch each others mistakes -Dice _______________ Dicemaster |
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Gradius - Ex-Student
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Get Firefox, Mozilla, or Opera. All have built in pop-up blockers that work better than anything I've tried.  _______________ - Proud padawan of Kueller. - We really are at the beginning of it all. The trick, of course, is to make sure we never find the end. - Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything - <gen-e-sis-happy> Liek, you can train, liek, a n00b, but he'll just be a trained n00b... --> Wise words! - "daer SOE me likes your a company i am having your some money for letting me do stuff cos mes the best amd i do it all meself" - Slider |
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solitude - Jedi Council 
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All of the above, and add spyware blaster to prevent the spyware from reinstalling. _______________ Joined 16 October 2004 | Retired 10 April 2005 | Returned 05 June 2008 | Made Staff 27 June 2008 | Made Council 18 January 2009 Padawan To Odan-Wei Belouve | Adopted into the Belouve family | Twin to xAnAtOs | Owner of the 4th Quesi sexy badge Brother To Roan Belouve, Nomad, Majno, Silkmonkey, Kensei and Jarhok Belouve
Owner Of Virtue's 1000th profile comment, Mr. Doobie's 1000th profile comment, Gradius' 2500th comment, xAnAtOs' 2500th comment, Rosered's 1500th comment, Laziana's 900th comment, Scythus' 500th comment and Echuu's 100th comment |
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Stimpski - Student 
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Also get Ad-aware, located here. Spybot and Ad-aware picks up where the other one leaves things behind. _______________ Stimpski (formerly known as DeathScythe many, many moons ago.) JA Forum ID - 3988 <insert generic &/OR witty tagline here> |
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Sfire - Student 
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Go here. http://www.panicware.com. Free, and works excellent. You there are no adds, and it never asks you to register. And it has probably blocked 99% of my adds, and I used to get a lot. _______________ |Sfire - Padawan to MOTREC, Gradius| |Owner of Motrec's and Gradius's 999th Comments! Also Smily's 5001 comment and 3th's 1903 comment! Also, cannot forget to mention the proud owner of Gradius' 3000th comment!| |
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JavaGuy - Student 
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I recommend Linux. But if you won't go that far, try using Mozilla as your browser. _______________ My signature is only one line. You're welcome. |
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Fizz of Belouve - Student 
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get Firefox to get rid of your spyware I recommend Spybot S&D _______________ One of the Belouve boys, founder of the mighty FiZZsters Midbie council #20 - Fizz - #1933 - Jan '03 - Aug '04 "Renfield, you idiot!" |
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