| Forum Home | ||||
| Press F1 | ||||
| Thread ID: 31031 | 2003-03-09 21:12:00 | Crickinfo & pop-ups | Sharkey (455) | Press F1 |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 126943 | 2003-03-09 21:12:00 | Greetings, A friend of mine went to the crickinfo.com site to get an update on how the cricket was going, and was assailed by pop-ups, pop-unders and general nasties. Normally, advertising doesn't worry me, but this site is ridiculous! The problem is now when she opens a web-based application or a browser window, she's getting pop-ups gallore. I've run a check for Gator, thinking it might have been that, but nothing. Can anyone suggest what else it may be and if possible a fix for how to get rid of it. I'm not interested in ad-blocking software - in my experience they cause more problems than they solve (that's going to be unpopular). I just want to get rid of the pop-ups. Any help would be MUCH appreciated. Cheers The Sharkmeister |
Sharkey (455) | ||
| 126944 | 2003-03-09 21:14:00 | whoops - sorry the URL is www.cricinfo.com and re-directs to http: But beware the pop-ups Cheers The Sharkmeister |
Sharkey (455) | ||
| 126945 | 2003-03-09 21:21:00 | Try SpyBot. I had a persistent pop-up from visiting a site once, and the only thing which got rid of it was running SpyBot and cleaning out all the altered registry entries and cookies. Ad-Aware don't seem to detect things like that, but SpyBot does a reasonably good job at cleaning them out. You may, however, want to uninstall SpyBot once you've used it, because I have heard that it is actually Spyware itself (go figure). | honeylaser (814) | ||
| 126946 | 2003-03-09 21:23:00 | PS - SpyBot can be found here (security.kolla.de/) You may also want to install Popup Stopper (www.panicware.com/). Don't know how I'd surf without it! |
honeylaser (814) | ||
| 126947 | 2003-03-09 21:27:00 | Thanx for the quick response honeylaser - the URL you've given is giving me a 404 Error message - will do a search on Google. Also, do you know of anything that's not ad-blocking software that could possibly fix this? The computer concerned is a work PC, so don't want to load any extra software - especially ad-blocking software. Sorry to be a pain. Cheers The Sharkmeister |
Sharkey (455) | ||
| 126948 | 2003-03-09 21:46:00 | > PS - SpyBot can be found > here (http://security.kolla.de/) > You may also want to install > Popup Stopper (http://www.panicware.com/). Don't > know how I'd surf without it! Try them now. Sorry about that! |
honeylaser (814) | ||
| 126949 | 2003-03-09 21:59:00 | > Also, do you know of anything that's not ad-blocking > software that could possibly fix this? The computer > concerned is a work PC, so don't want to load any > extra software - especially ad-blocking software. You could disable Javascript. In IE Tools > Internet Options > Security > Internet > Custom Level and Uncheck Javascript. Keep in mind this disables Javascript within web pages also. It's a pretty easy and effective way to stop pop ups and pop unders though. |
honeylaser (814) | ||
| 126950 | 2003-03-10 00:33:00 | Thanx for this, but I'm not wanting to stop the ads. I just want to stop whatever executable or app that is causing the problem. Like Gator causes on most machines. Cheers The Sharkmeister |
Sharkey (455) | ||
| 126951 | 2003-03-10 02:05:00 | > Thanx for this, but I'm not wanting to stop the ads. > I just want to stop whatever executable or app that > is causing the problem. Like Gator causes on most > machines. Well, Spybot and AdAware will do that for you. But you have to install these programs to get rid of the Spyware/Adware. If pop ups in general are an issue, then you can install a popup stopper such as the one from Panicware, or you can disable Javascript in the browser. |
honeylaser (814) | ||
| 126952 | 2003-03-10 02:11:00 | I can view the page with only one small pop-up. try checking the system with Ad-aware from www.lavasoft.de |
robsonde (120) | ||
| 1 | |||||