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Pastimes : Don't Ask Rambi -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Justin C who wrote (66294)	12/20/2004 11:04:40 AM
From: Crocodile	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

I'm always curious about mention of pop-ups. Do these just happen spontaneously, or are they associated with visiting certain websites, etc..? I only use Macs, and don't seem to see this kind of stuff too often unless I go to some magazine or newspaper website where a small pop-up comes up encouraging me to subscribe to the publication. ~croc

To: Justin C who wrote (66294)	12/20/2004 11:51:16 AM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

We had run adware and spybot without success. Finally last night, we ran something else that I can't remember the name of-- it took 45 minutes to scan my computer, found 80 things AFTER spybot had run, and then cleaned it. It was a free trial, and I suppose I will have to buy it if they come back, but it is wonderful. I will ask CW the name for you. The bad part of this is not the annoyance, according to CW, but that these evil things actually are accessing our computers. They are tracking us. If they wanted to, they could actually control our hardware, but mostly they just want us to buy their stuff and when they see our preferences, we get these popups and they pass our address out to others. They have no honor. I would never buy from a popup ad, they make me so mad. It had gotten really out of control here, and I was getting several every few minutes. Now NONE. So you may want to run this program-- when I figure out what it was.

To: Justin C who wrote (66294)	12/20/2004 11:00:30 PM
From: JF Quinnelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

I never get popups anymore. The program I use that stops them on my machine is part of the Lavasoft Ad-Aware SE Plus program, specifically the Ad-Watch feature. I don't believe that this feature is activated on the free Ad-Aware program that they offer. You can download the full program for $27. Or you can buy a Mac like Croc's. Here is the Lavasoft URL if you're interested: lavasoftusa.com The $27 was money well spent. Popups can also come from spyware that's been planted on your machine. I periodically run the main Ad-Aware program. And Spybot S&D (free!) safer-networking.org and I have SpywareBlaster installed, which is recommended by Spybot S&D. It's also free javacoolsoftware.com My computer is configured so that no cookie ever gets planted on it without my permission. I think I arranged that from "tools" in the IE web browser, although I now use Mozilla's Firefox browser a lot of the time. It all makes for easier websurfing. I can stop by Drudge and never see one stinking ad, lol.