Dec 24, 2003 11:29 am I've been using the Google toolbar and it's done a great job of blocking popups.
toolbar.google.com/
arrrgggghhhh! pop ups!
Posted on Dec 24, 2003 11:26 am
flame
...bringing sexy back
Member Since: Jul 01, 2002
picked up something reently thats been making loadsa popups appear on my machine...its a right pain in the arse!
i did a virus scan which came up blank, so im looking for some sort of free popup blocking type-thing...the operative word being FREE there.
FREE! FREE! FREE!
any ideas anyone? i tried what was in that thread about virus scanners a couple of weeks ago, but it doesnt seem to've helped...
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Dec 24, 2003 11:29 am I've been using the Google toolbar and it's done a great job of blocking popups.
toolbar.google.com/
Dec 24, 2003 11:32 am flame - you need to download a program called AdAware. It removes spyware on your machine. Most of this spyware causes popups to appear at random. It's FREE and comes with an updating tool. FYI - once you install it, use the update tool BEFORE you scan, or you won't have the most recent definitions file. This is available right now at download dot com
good luck :) get them before they get you.
Dec 24, 2003 11:41 am Dude, the browser MyIE2 has a GREAT popup stopper.
www.myie2.com/
plus loads of other cool features.
But yeah, AdAware is the bomb for finding and removing spyware.
Dec 24, 2003 11:48 am im just trying that now...we'll see what happens...
Dec 24, 2003 11:50 am hmmmm, 22 new objects found so far - that doesnt sound good...
Dec 24, 2003 12:07 pm it found 87 pop up thingys and other stuff...jesus!
hopefully, thats it now...
UPDATE :
checked for updates, ran it again and found another 9! shocking...
Dec 24, 2003 01:22 pm i ran adaware awhile back and it found over 400 things to be removed
Dec 24, 2003 02:00 pm Realize everything AdAware finds is not necessarily "evil" such as cookies, which sometimes are harmless, tho sometimes not, but anyone that surfs the net has a butt-load of cookies...so don't let the number scare you.
Dec 25, 2003 08:26 am only 400? On my computers I only found 80 something... but I was doing a job on a clients computer and found 904. Turns out his son is a porno freak and they had three search bars installed.
and make sure yopu get Ad-Aware not Ada-Ware :)
Dec 25, 2003 08:44 am the damn thing still appears when i go on yahoo...weird...
Dec 25, 2003 08:51 am Dude, Yahoo itself I believe has popups, not from any spyware, just their website.
MyIE2 stops all that crap.
Dec 25, 2003 08:58 am dunno if it is though, its all adult porn site stuff...thatd be a bit odd from yahoo wouldnt it?
Dec 25, 2003 09:32 am ahhh, ya, that wouldn't be Yahoo :-)
Dec 25, 2003 10:28 am i dont know how i got that stuff popping up...
Dec 25, 2003 06:23 pm google toolbar works great. pop-up stopper is another good one.
Dec 30, 2003 05:14 am well, whatever it is even installed a new toolbar into IE6 without asking me...gonna try popup stopper to stop the 'wanna date hot girls like these' rubbish thats appearing every five minutes...
Dec 30, 2003 05:29 am Well, you can always remove the toolbar from the view menu in IE...shutting off the service on the other hand might be a tad trickier...sounds like another thing Adaware or spybot should get rid of tho...
Dec 30, 2003 05:35 am yeah, i got it removed easy enough, though i dunno how it got there...theres somethgin funny running on my machine...
if a pop up appears, is there a way to track it and ban that website address or anything, or am i just hoping now?
Dec 30, 2003 06:40 pm If you have a firewall installed I believe you can ban certain IP addresses from being allowed to contact your box. I havent had to much trouble since I put in Sygate Personal Firewall. They have an option to add IPs that I dont want to allow.
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