Popups on AO

[BTAutoMag]

is anyone getting these popups about paintball websites when they are looking around AO

[sniper1rfa]

nope.

its a company owned and operated site, why WOULD there be any pop-ups? or banners, for that matter.

:)

[AGD]

????? That's wierd! Keep me posted.

AGD

[BTAutoMag]

hmm...

i dunno, its something like save money on paintball then it lists a bunch of links

[Lopy-slopy]

Did you have any other sites open? Maby they were from some other site.

[misfit]

yea i do i think it started when i installed the latest version of kazza

[BTAutoMag]

nope just AO

[slushee]

I work in tech support for computer companies eheh ..

Kill kazaa and get kazaa lite! Best thing you could do...

[Duke Henry]

Did you click on a link to AO, or go to the forums from a bookmark?

What site were you on before you came to AO?

[BTAutoMag]

nope, AO was the very first site i went to

i had kazaa bout 2 weeks ago buy got rid of it

[Jack & Coke]

You may have an adserver installed without you knowing it.

Get this and you will trip out what has been installed on your computer - WITHOUT YOUR KNOWLEDGE!

http://www.lavasoft.de/software/adaware/

It's a program called "Ad-Aware".

Good luck!

[cheetah256]

adaware is a great program. extremely useful.

[ah137]

everyone should have this, that uses the internet, read this

tweakXP (http://www.tweakxp.com/idealbb/view.asp?topicID=13119&sessionID={010C5726-8B0E-4D02-8806-13F4AA6B8070})

Also Opera, is a great program if you can get it.

~Hills

[deathstalker]

Those started popping up on me last night when I was surfing eBay. I clicked a couple links in the popup itself and it told me the programs I needed to remove in order to stop them. They turned out to be called Weathercast and Clocksync (there might be more). Go to Add/Remove programs and see if they, or any other suspicious programs, are listed there.

Ad-aware (Ad-watch, specifically) caught it but did not prevent the install.

[BTAutoMag]

i downloaded adware... hope it helps

[Gitaroo Man]

yes and i have gotten Save Now popups

[845]

Yeah its weather cause i get same popups.

[Me]

yah, some adware, anytime i go to a pb website i get some random pop ups that have co's like pbgear.com on it

[LittMag]

I know it's been covered, but worth repeating. IT'S NOT AO. You have spyware on your computer.

[SpongeBobSquarePants]

I have AO set as my homepage at home and I get pop ups, however I think they are from my weather thing. For a while though I was getting paintball pop ups here and at pbgear but I don't think it AO just other crap we all use.

[Crighton]

Originally posted by misfit
yea i do i think it started when i installed the latest version of kazza

Sounds like Gator. Get add aware.

[xadamx]

a great popup blocker is "No-Ads" you can DL it at http://www.download.com it runs completely unseen and untouched, you can even set it so the icon in the task bar(right next to the clock) isnt visable. the only issue that it has is that when its first installed the list of popups to block is long but not complete so when you get a popup you need to open No-Ads, you will see a box with a list of all the open windows and then you will high light the popup and click the button "add to targets"(i think thats what it says, if not its something similar) and boom- youll never see that popup again. its completely spyware free and free of cost. its an incredible product if you dont mind working with it for a little bit(after two weeks of having No-Ads on my computer i havent seen a popup in ages). i highly recommend it

[wes]

phhsss, forget all those no-ad soft-wear things, get MOZILLA! www.mozilla.com

[Paintchucker]

I recently changed my security setting, so now I am asked if I want to accept cookies. I got a prompt for a cookie from PBNation yesterday. It may have "spawned" from a picture that someone had in the thread.

Of course, a cookie is not really a popup, but still...

[Sooky]

Either Ad-aware, Spybot, or spyware blaster seems to be incompatible with Kazaa. I downloaded them and Kazaa refused to open. I can't even delete it in Add or Remove Programs.

Software is the devil.

[WickeDKlowN]

That is because ad-aware(or whatever you used) deleted a spyware DLL that KaZaA needs to run. Uninstall any install of KaZaA, Grokster, etc. Then go to K-Lite.tk and download the newest version. Install that and be happy :)

[BTAutoMag]

lol, after i loaded it and did a search, the stop sign thing poped up and reported a possibly virus attack called ad-ware... kinda ironic huh

[warpfeedmod]

Originally posted by BTAutoMag
lol, after i loaded it and did a search, the stop sign thing poped up and reported a possibly virus attack called ad-ware... kinda ironic huh


just let it do it's thing. That's because more then likely it's trying to delete a .dll or some registry entries associated with the "spyware". Let it delete them, reboot and re-scan with adaware again. and as others have mentioned, kill Kazaa and go get Kazaa Lite. no spyware.

also I see some of you have posted about the weather or something? Theres software out there called weather bug that may be causing pop-ups and whatnot.

[Sooky]

Originally posted by WickeDKlowN
That is because ad-aware(or whatever you used) deleted a spyware DLL that KaZaA needs to run. Uninstall any install of KaZaA, Grokster, etc. Then go to K-Lite.tk and download the newest version. Install that and be happy :) Done and done.

Installed and happy.:)

[misfit]

cought it
http://bidtxt.whenu.com/About?pid=86&templ=12&title=Paintball
http://akweb.whenu.com/default/snabout_pop.html

[circus5]

Whenever I launch my browser I get a popup, before I even get connected. i found the program, DelFin Media Viewer, and deleted it. But it keeps coming back! Can't figure out, where its from. Just got done downloading Ad-Aware, maybe it'll help.