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Offline Addinarr

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Pop up ads!
« on: March 1, 2003, 04:05:39 PM »
Ok, I need help.

Here's how it works: I just moved my CPU back home to take advantage of my cable system.

So I'm playing games online, and then suddenly, it minimizes my game, and slaps this big ass ad window on my desktop. And get this: IT ADVERTIZES POP-UP AD STOPPERS. And it comes up every ten minutes or so.

Now realize my virus scan doesn't detect anything, and I perform routine checks with my ad-aware program to remove spyware. Thus, I see no conclusion....other than it is the CABLE that is doing this itself somehow.


So.....I don't see how to get rid of it. Help?
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Re:Pop up ads!
« Reply #1 on: March 1, 2003, 04:13:13 PM »
well - i doubt it was the cable provider - but in the mean time get yourself a pop-up stopper program - they are les than a meg and won't consume hardly any CPU/memory usage so it won't impact on your game
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Re:Pop up ads!
« Reply #2 on: March 1, 2003, 04:29:43 PM »
Oh yes, I already HAVE a pop up stopper, and it works fine.

However, this new ad completely bypasses it!
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Re:Pop up ads!
« Reply #3 on: March 1, 2003, 05:09:22 PM »
just manually block the URL of the pop up
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Re:Pop up ads!
« Reply #4 on: March 1, 2003, 06:23:08 PM »
Quote from: Vice on March  1, 2003, 05:09:22 PM
just manually block the URL of the pop up

that should work
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Re:Pop up ads!
« Reply #5 on: March 1, 2003, 10:38:52 PM »
it depends what kind of ad pop-up it is... if it's an HTML pop-up from a website, then it shouldn't be happening... it may be from MSN or Trillian and if that's the case, I don't know of an ad pop-stopper that stops it, it always kicks me out of WC3 for instance...

so if you find a stopper that's free and works for MSN, lemme know...

other than that, try using adstopper or something that will sniff through your registry, etc. to stop ads...

good luck!
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Re:Pop up ads!
« Reply #6 on: March 1, 2003, 10:43:11 PM »
www.lavasoft.com

get ad aware
that should stop it
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Re:Pop up ads!
« Reply #7 on: March 1, 2003, 11:01:24 PM »
Already have it.
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Re:Pop up ads!
« Reply #8 on: March 2, 2003, 12:02:27 AM »
hmmm
he wrote it on the first post 2
*smacks forehead*

srry for wasting you time
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Re:Pop up ads!
« Reply #9 on: March 2, 2003, 02:51:42 AM »
It's alright.

So......how exactly does one "block" a URL?
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Re:Pop up ads!
« Reply #10 on: March 2, 2003, 05:12:33 PM »
im plagued by this too. ievry time i start to type something here, up pops some ad.
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Re:Pop up ads!
« Reply #11 on: March 7, 2003, 03:07:14 AM »
This is the site that's bothering me:
http://fightmessenger.com/

Needless to say, I'm pretty pissed. I've a good mind to hire some guys and......!!
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