pop-ups/pop-unders

Xmung · Post by **Xmung** » Wed Mar 17, 2004 7:34 pm

all of a sudden every single page i access in keenspace is deluged with e-bay pop-under windows. every single god-damned page. does this happen to any one else or is my pc haunted? is this new keenspace policy? if so, surely most people trying to read an archive will ignore the first, ignore the second, get really pissed by the third and probably close out of the site by the fourth. maybe it's me. i hate advertising, but i can live with banner ads. really i can. i could even say i'll occassionaly click on a banner ad. but pop-unders/pop-overs just are plain rude especially if they are for the same thing for every single page. couldn't at least a cookie be set to only display the goddamned thing once per session, not every single page?
ARRRRGHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!

that's my rant. what do others think? (btw, everytime i added an option to this quiz another window popped up, and i found myself typing the option into the e-bay ad search field!!!!!!!!!!)

Terotrous · Post by **Terotrous** » Wed Mar 17, 2004 7:41 pm

Sounds like you've been spywared. Go get Lavasoft AdAware.

Xmung · Post by **Xmung** » Wed Mar 17, 2004 7:50 pm

"spywared"?
say what? please please please please tell me what this is! does this mean it may not be a keenspace thing, cos it only only happens when i visit keen pages. i sure hope that's all it is and i can fix it (er, how might it have happened, cos i don't have any viruses...?)

Okie · Post by **Okie** » Wed Mar 17, 2004 8:04 pm

I use AVG Anti-Virus to find viruses.
I use Ad-Aware 6.0 to find spyware.
I use:

http://www.doxdesk.com/parasite/

to find everything else.

Warren · Post by **Warren** » Wed Mar 17, 2004 8:58 pm

Let's all go to Google and get that free popup blocker!

Terotrous · Post by **Terotrous** » Wed Mar 17, 2004 9:09 pm

Warren wrote:Let's all go to Google and get that free popup blocker...

... Mozilla!

Warren · Post by **Warren** » Wed Mar 17, 2004 9:12 pm

Terotrous wrote:
Warren wrote:Let's all go to Google and get that free popup blocker...
... Mozilla!

On my work computer. I'm at home now.

BTW- XP SP2 will have a popup blocker in IE. FINALLY.

Terotrous · Post by **Terotrous** » Wed Mar 17, 2004 9:27 pm

Warren wrote:
Terotrous wrote:
Warren wrote:Let's all go to Google and get that free popup blocker...
... Mozilla!
On my work computer. I'm at home now.

BTW- XP SP2 will have a popup blocker in IE. FINALLY.

I must admit, IE is getting better. IE6 allows you to reject cookies. And it doesn't seem to crash as much as before. Maybe people switching to other browsers have got them worked up.

Mr Ekshin · Post by **Mr Ekshin** » Wed Mar 17, 2004 9:32 pm

Okie wrote:http://www.doxdesk.com/parasite/

to find everything else.

Thanks Okie. That's a good page.

Gage Kronos · Post by **Gage Kronos** » Wed Mar 17, 2004 10:05 pm

Heh...I hate them with a passion. Someone pointed me to the Pop-up Stopper from panicware, and I haven't had issues with them since. But yes, Ad-Aware is a must, especially if you use KaZaA or the like since they're LOADED WITH SPYWARE. I give bonus points to both since they're free. Free is the magical word for starving artists/college students like myself.

Phact0rri · Post by **Phact0rri** » Wed Mar 17, 2004 10:46 pm

yeah it was shopathome adware, search and destroy picked it up cause I got the same thing, it was strange to me cause I have popup stoppers installed.

go here http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?page=spybotsd

Xmung · Post by **Xmung** » Wed Mar 17, 2004 11:59 pm

yay! thanks Terotrous and Oakie!
as popeye would say: "how embarrassink!"

i actually had three varieties of adware on my pc - and i have no idea how i picked them up. all i can say is thank god it wasn't a new keenspace policy and i've calmed down a bit now....

pant pant pant...

but do any of you technical types out there have any idea why it was only happening when i visited keenspace pages (guide.keen, forum.keen, comicname.keen...)?

Terotrous · Post by **Terotrous** » Thu Mar 18, 2004 8:20 am

xmung wrote:yay! thanks Terotrous and Oakie!
as popeye would say: "how embarrassink!"
i actually had three varieties of adware on my pc - and i have no idea how i picked them up. all i can say is thank god it wasn't a new keenspace policy and i've calmed down a bit now....

pant pant pant...

but do any of you technical types out there have any idea why it was only happening when i visited keenspace pages (guide.keen, forum.keen, comicname.keen...)?

Many spyware programs operate by sending specific ads to specific places. Ie, if you're on a gaming site, they send you gaming ads. So adware certainly has the power to tell what site you're looking at.

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Thu Mar 18, 2004 9:16 am

xmung wrote:"spywared"?
say what? please please please please tell me what this is! does this mean it may not be a keenspace thing, cos it only only happens when i visit keen pages. i sure hope that's all it is and i can fix it (er, how might it have happened, cos i don't have any viruses...?)

Spywares are the worst hellspawn since computers are invented. They install on cour comp through some site that you visited (maybe you accidentally clicked one 'ok' button too much) or are being installed besides some programs you install (that's why you should real terms of service during instalation). I think that, for instance, norton antivirus is acting like 'spyware' sending your data to their central.
Uh, actually, I think that's spywares. Addwares are similar but they provide you with popup adds when you don't expect. So, it was not keenspace. I don't have popup blocker, yes to popups on keenspace for me. As far as I know, KeenSpot puts a popup every now and then, on every ten or twenty pages you load.
Spywares and addwares most likely can be found as resident programs in right corner of your taskbar. They can be pain in the ass to deinstall sometimes.
Hm. Sorry if someone already said this, or if I provided some data that is incorrect. I'm in hurry, gotta go to 'junk' forum.

Gage Kronos · Post by **Gage Kronos** » Thu Mar 18, 2004 10:21 am

Since we're on the subject of spyware, I ran Ad-aware again and apparently I picked up some program named "Wild Tangent" somewhere. It removed it for me, but I can't honestly think of where it may have come from.

I wonder if anyone is going to pick the "I love them!" option in the poll. ::chuckles::

War · Post by **War** » Thu Mar 18, 2004 10:24 am

No, the worst thing was Gatorware.
Remember when they had that popup which said "do you want to install this, yes/no" and if you clicked no then a second would pop up saying "are you sure you don't want to install this, yes/no".
That was when I said enoughs enough for IE (this was before the google toolbar came out).

Post by **Mercury Hat** » Thu Mar 18, 2004 11:00 am

Wild Tangent came with the new version of AIM.

When I was visiting my dad's house over the summer, I decided to install Spybot S&D and Ad-aware on his computer. What a nightmare, Ad-aware found like...600 different things to be deleted. My dad's computer's really old. There was Gator, comet cursor, some sort of date/time taskbar thingie, it was awful. There were four of these things programmed to run at start-up I had to get rid of.

Gage Kronos · Post by **Gage Kronos** » Thu Mar 18, 2004 11:10 am

From AIM? Ugh... Damn AOL. I don't suppose Trillian comes with any of that stuff? If not, I may just switch to that.

Dan Nicholls · Post by **Dan Nicholls** » Thu Mar 18, 2004 11:37 am

Oh, it gets better, though. Spyware I can handle (mmmm, loverly network people), but AIM's audio ads will drive me to commit several hundred dollars' worth of computer lab damage.

Grabmygoblin · Post by **Grabmygoblin** » Thu Mar 18, 2004 2:59 pm

that was fun, I just ran several different sweeps on my computer. -sigh- I just ran a sweep last week, yet I still managed to pick up a ton of cookies and annoying toolbars. I gotta stop surfing as much.

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