xyzabc Posted June 11, 2003 Share Posted June 11, 2003 anyone else noticing the popups that are coming up on the gc.com homepage now? Jeremy: why? "Make it idiot proof, and someone will make a better idiot" Quote Link to comment
+Draoi Posted June 11, 2003 Share Posted June 11, 2003 I haven't noticed any. You might want to check your computer to make sure that some program like Gator, iLook, or one of the other spyware things didn't sneak its way on. My mother called me up the other day and was wondering why MSNBC was giving her pop-ups for Farm Animal Porno. Turned out to be this nasty little program called xupiter. If it does turn out to be one of those, try the program called Ad-aware. You can download it at www.downloads.com . Quote Link to comment
xyzabc Posted June 11, 2003 Author Share Posted June 11, 2003 well, if there is any spyware on my PC that Moosoft's The Cleaner, TrojanHunter, Ad-Aware 6.0, PopUp Stopper, and my built-in add suppression can get through, then it can stay there. As a computer technicial, I have a full 700mb CD full of anti-spy/ad ware software. "Make it idiot proof, and someone will make a better idiot" Quote Link to comment
martmann Posted June 11, 2003 Share Posted June 11, 2003 I haven't seen any either, maybe you need another CD. _________________________________________________________ If trees could scream, would we still cut them down? Well, maybe if they screamed all the time, for no reason. Click here for my Geocaching pictures and Here (newest) Quote Link to comment
xyzabc Posted June 11, 2003 Author Share Posted June 11, 2003 what is extremely odd is that it happened twice, and I havn't seen it since.... Very strange "Make it idiot proof, and someone will make a better idiot" Quote Link to comment
+Draoi Posted June 11, 2003 Share Posted June 11, 2003 Heh, that's a pretty good screen there. Hrm, dunno then. Maybe you came from another site that did one of those annoying pop-up calls on exit, so the pop-up came from the previous site? Quote Link to comment
+briansnat Posted June 11, 2003 Share Posted June 11, 2003 I've never had a popup come from this website. "Au pays des aveugles, les borgnes sont rois" Quote Link to comment
+AmericanSpirit Posted June 11, 2003 Share Posted June 11, 2003 Any chance there was another browser window on the task bar that you couldn't open? Some sites launch a window that will only stay minimized on the task-bar, and that is used to launch pop-up's. There are 10 types of people in the world..those that understand binary and those that don't Quote Link to comment
umc Posted June 11, 2003 Share Posted June 11, 2003 No popups here either but then again I don't visit all of those porn sites that you do TJW. All I've ever used has been ad-aware and have had no problem, even when I run it, it may find one or two things at best and those are usually cookies. I run a clean machine but my question is with all of those other apps do you find that they pickup stuff that add-aware doesn't? Pro's/Con's for either? Give you my addy, can you burn and ship a copy? ______________________________________________________________________________________ Caching without a clue.... Quote Link to comment
xyzabc Posted June 11, 2003 Author Share Posted June 11, 2003 all of the programs I have are freely available online, search download.com. As for other open windows, I only run at mots 1 browser at a time, and the popup blocker I use has never failed to stop all popups. I ran a scan with AdAware (3 hard drives, took over an hour), and it turns out that a program I installed a few weeks ago had hidden adware. That's what was causing it. UMC: for a perfectly clean system, I use AdAware 6, Moosoft's TheCleaner (may no longer be available, not sure), TrojanHunter, and PopUp Stopper. I run adAware tewice a day, TrojanHunter once a day, and The Cleaner twice a day. "Make it idiot proof, and someone will make a better idiot" Quote Link to comment
+Mopar Posted June 11, 2003 Share Posted June 11, 2003 quote:Originally posted by TJWilson:I ran a scan with AdAware (3 hard drives, took over an hour), and it turns out that a program I installed a few weeks ago had hidden adware. That's what was causing it. UMC: for a perfectly clean system, I use AdAware 6, Moosoft's TheCleaner (may no longer be available, not sure), TrojanHunter, and PopUp Stopper. I run adAware tewice a day, TrojanHunter once a day, and The Cleaner twice a day. Wow! You ran Adaware 20-30 times then before it found the spyware, and all those other programs missed it totally. I guess they don't work as good as people think, huh? Thanks for that heads up TJ! Tae-Kwon-Leap is not a path to a door, but a road leading forever towards the horizon. Quote Link to comment
Swagger Posted June 11, 2003 Share Posted June 11, 2003 BHO Cop is another very handy utility. It checks for Browser Helper Objects (the Yahoo! and Google toolbars are examples) and allows you to disable them. It's a ZDnet download. Their downloads used to be free but now they're charging a small fee to download any of their utilities. -- Random fortune: Quote Link to comment
xyzabc Posted June 11, 2003 Author Share Posted June 11, 2003 quote:Originally posted by Mopar: Wow! You ran Adaware 20-30 times then before it found the spyware, and all those other programs missed it totally. I guess they don't work as good as people think, huh? Thanks for that heads up TJ! + _Tae-Kwon-Leap is not a path to a door, but a road leading forever towards the horizon. _ Mopar: most adware in programs do not activate until the program is run, which I did last night for the first time. The program was supposed to be a memory manager for the computers RAM, but after running it, and realizing that all it did was randomly generate numbers, I deleted it, leaving the adware behind. "Make it idiot proof, and someone will make a better idiot" Quote Link to comment
+Renegade Knight Posted June 11, 2003 Share Posted June 11, 2003 quote:Originally posted by TJWilson:anyone else noticing the popups that are coming up on the gc.com homepage now? Jeremy: why? http://gnclug.linuxorbit.com/tj.jpg "Make it idiot proof, and someone will make a better idiot" Maybe your spyware rats nest is making a popup to thank you for using their software? ===================== Wherever you go there you are. Quote Link to comment
+Mopar Posted June 11, 2003 Share Posted June 11, 2003 quote:Originally posted by TJWilson:Mopar: most adware in programs do not activate until the program is run, which I did last night for the first time. The program was supposed to be a memory manager for the computers RAM, but after running it, and realizing that all it did was randomly generate numbers, I deleted it, leaving the adware behind. Oh silly me. I thought they showed up when you INSTALLED them. Thank you so much for contributing your years of computer knowledge to help out the newbies like me. Tae-Kwon-Leap is not a path to a door, but a road leading forever towards the horizon. Quote Link to comment
xyzabc Posted June 11, 2003 Author Share Posted June 11, 2003 quote:Originally posted by Mopar: Oh silly me. I thought they showed up when you INSTALLED them. Thank you so much for contributing your years of computer knowledge to help out the newbies like me. + _Tae-Kwon-Leap is not a path to a door, but a road leading forever towards the horizon. _ a good many do. Most of the ones I've found don't run untill the program runs for the first time. "Make it idiot proof, and someone will make a better idiot" Quote Link to comment
+pnew Posted June 11, 2003 Share Posted June 11, 2003 I canned adaware and downloaded "Spybot - Search and Destroy" PC World rated it as the best spyware eradicator and it does a darned good job. I recommend it. http://security.kolla.de/ (Theres their homepage to download from) The Department of Redundancy Department Quote Link to comment
+AmericanSpirit Posted June 11, 2003 Share Posted June 11, 2003 The opera browser has a built in pop-up blocker, You may want to look into it, as its far superior to IE, or netscape in my opinion. There are 10 types of people in the world..those that understand binary and those that don't Quote Link to comment
xyzabc Posted June 11, 2003 Author Share Posted June 11, 2003 I've tried the Opera browser, and Mozilla for Windows. I also used both in Linux, and didn't like either browser in either OS. With the protection that I have implemented, stuff rarely squeake by, unless hidden in software. "Make it idiot proof, and someone will make a better idiot" Quote Link to comment
+sept1c_tank Posted June 11, 2003 Share Posted June 11, 2003 Yes...I've gotten popups, too. (I have no popup stoppers currently installed.) Quote Link to comment
+The Leprechauns Posted June 11, 2003 Share Posted June 11, 2003 See Jeremy's posts to this thread, which I found after searching on the term "popup". Paraphrasing Jeremy, he would shut the site down before he'd resort to popup ads. I believe him, and don't feel a need to ask him again. The lack of annoying popup ads is part of what makes this site such an enjoyable place. x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x Some mornings, it just doesn't pay to chew through the leather straps. - Emo Phillips Quote Link to comment
xyzabc Posted June 11, 2003 Author Share Posted June 11, 2003 Lep: I fully agree, which is why I wanted to ask Jeremy why he had put popups on the site. Now I know what the cause was, and havn't seen a popup in hours "Make it idiot proof, and someone will make a better idiot" Quote Link to comment
+Mopar Posted June 11, 2003 Share Posted June 11, 2003 Tae-Kwon-Leap is not a path to a door, but a road leading forever towards the horizon. Quote Link to comment
umc Posted June 11, 2003 Share Posted June 11, 2003 ______________________________________________________________________________________ Caching without a clue.... Quote Link to comment
MTU_Cache_Spot Posted June 11, 2003 Share Posted June 11, 2003 I've installed Spybot on my computer, but haven't used it to it's full capability yet....so far I've seen that it catches some things that AdAware does not, but the other way is true as well. I haven't found Spybot to work well finding anything but applications and reg keys....cookies seem to slip by it rather easily (unless there's some setting I haven't hunted for yet). Truthfully, if I had to run spy-ware detectors more than once per week, I'd probably just turn off my computer and force myself to stay outside for a couple days...if you really need your computer to be that clean, maybe you need a new hobby (or job) Quote Link to comment
FullOn Posted June 11, 2003 Share Posted June 11, 2003 TJ, maybe if you didn't install so much crap on your computer you wouldn't need all those security apps. Might want to think about downsizing - or get a second computer to try out all the kewl hakz from download.com. "The man who trades freedom for security does not deserve nor will he ever receive either." - Benjamin Franklin Quote Link to comment
xyzabc Posted June 11, 2003 Author Share Posted June 11, 2003 I have 7 computers, and as for the security apps, anyone that doesn't think they need them is sick in the head. "Make it idiot proof, and someone will make a better idiot" Quote Link to comment
+Mopar Posted June 11, 2003 Share Posted June 11, 2003 Tae-Kwon-Leap is not a path to a door, but a road leading forever towards the horizon. Quote Link to comment
xyzabc Posted June 11, 2003 Author Share Posted June 11, 2003 I have a cd of apps, for different OS's, and different computers. I don't use all of them on 1 computer. "Make it idiot proof, and someone will make a better idiot" Quote Link to comment
+Mopar Posted June 11, 2003 Share Posted June 11, 2003 Tae-Kwon-Leap is not a path to a door, but a road leading forever towards the horizon. Quote Link to comment
FullOn Posted June 11, 2003 Share Posted June 11, 2003 quote:Originally posted by Mopar: "The man who trades freedom for security does not deserve nor will he ever receive either." - Benjamin Franklin Quote Link to comment
+GeoFrake's Posted June 11, 2003 Share Posted June 11, 2003 I use both AdAware and Spybot. As MTU said, each of them will find things the other won't. I hate popups! With a little caution on what you are downloading and installing, along with these two programs, popups can be a thing of the past. Quote Link to comment
+parkrrrr Posted June 11, 2003 Share Posted June 11, 2003 quote:Originally posted by FullOn: quote:Originally posted by Mopar: Quote Link to comment
+mtn-man Posted June 11, 2003 Share Posted June 11, 2003 quote:Originally posted by Warm Fuzzies - Fuzzy: quote:Originally posted by FullOn: quote:Originally posted by Mopar: Quote Link to comment
+The Leprechauns Posted June 11, 2003 Share Posted June 11, 2003 quote:Originally posted by mtn-man: quote:Originally posted by Warm Fuzzies - Fuzzy: quote:Originally posted by FullOn: quote:Originally posted by Mopar: http://parkrrrr.com/News/biggrin.gif x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x Some mornings, it just doesn't pay to chew through the leather straps. - Emo Phillips Quote Link to comment
FullOn Posted June 11, 2003 Share Posted June 11, 2003 You just have to have the last word, don't you Fuzzy?! "The man who trades freedom for security does not deserve nor will he ever receive either." - Benjamin Franklin Quote Link to comment
+Planet Posted June 11, 2003 Share Posted June 11, 2003 zymurgy It's the last word in my 1958 dictionary any way. Cache you later, Planet So many caches, so little time. Quote Link to comment
+bazzle Posted June 11, 2003 Share Posted June 11, 2003 Dang... not a single piece of adware/spyware/trojanhunter/etc type blocking software... on any of my puters in 10+ years and I still have no problem with pop-ups. Plus I have lots of system resource that is not being wasted by adware/spyware/trojanhunter/etc type blocking software... I must just live a good life My mind not only wanders... Sometimes it leaves completely... **Namaste** Quote Link to comment
+woodsters Posted June 17, 2003 Share Posted June 17, 2003 I remember years ago while working at a hospital (I worked law enformcement there), that a maintenance man asked me about getting a computer. Matter of fact I seemed to be the guru there, which is sad in itself. I guess they were all just not familiar with computers. Anyway this guy ended up buying a computer and got hooked on the internet. While making my rounds one night I saw him and another person in their office and popped in to chat for a while. He was telling me how neat the internet was and the search engines. Said "just for fun" that he typed in the word "sex" in the search engine and was given hundreds of thousands of links to websites. Said he went to some of them to see what they were, but they kept asking him for his credit card number. I told him not to do it even if they said it was for verification of age purposes. He said oh no he wouldn't do that. Uhhh, yeah right.... Anyway, about a month or so down the road, I saw him again. I said hey hows the computer going? Said it was great but he had another question for me. He said he gets all these pop ups for sex sites whenever he logs on or boots the computer (can't remember how he put it). Said that he wanted them off his computer because his grandchildren like to play games on his computer when they come over. I told him some things to try. Later asked him they worked and they did. This was over 3 or 4 years ago and the technology that they use now for these pop ups are more advance than then. But, on the question of those pop ups that he was receiving, how do you think he was getting them? When you go to a site, pop ups are annoying. Companies like AOL have a pop up blocker in their software, but is only good if you are using their browser. I don't use their browser, so it's no good to me. I prefer the pop unders instead. The ones I really detest are the ones that get big, the size of the screen, with no "close" button on them. Then you have to go out of your way to close it. Brian Wood Woodsters Outdoors http://www.woodsters.com Quote Link to comment
Swagger Posted June 17, 2003 Share Posted June 17, 2003 quote:Originally posted by Woodsters Outdoors:The ones I really detest are the ones that get big, the size of the screen, with no "close" button on them. Then you have to go out of your way to close it. If you press Alt-F4, the active window will be closed. If you do it fast enough, you can close the window before it loads the page - and the javascript which will open a window when you close that one, starting the process all over again... On popup blockers, AdSubtract is far and away the best one I've tried. I can't tell you how happy I am with it... Since I've installed it less than a year ago it's blocked: 35891 ads 27507 cookies 50583 javascripts It's fully customizable so you can block cookies from one site, javascript on another, etc. http://www.adsubtract.com/ -- Random fortune: Quote Link to comment
+DapperDanMan Posted June 17, 2003 Share Posted June 17, 2003 I use Free Surfer mk II and it seems to do a pretty good job. You can have your computer speaker make a small beep (which you can also turn off) when it blocks a pop-up. This is nice because every now and then a web site will use a pop up for a feature of their website that you need. You just press the control key and hit reload and the popup will come up. The best thing though is the program is free. http://www.kolumbus.fi/eero.muhonen/FS/Support.htm Quote Link to comment
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