Pop Up ads..........

Junkman · Oct 23, 2003

I have been having a problem with pop up ads when I read some forums on the TBN site. Seems like a link for an advertiser will pop up while I am reading a post and am moving the mouse. I thought at first, that I might have hit the mouse button and opened the dealers site by mistake, but it happens too frequently and I have been careful not to even have a finger on the mouse button. Does anyone else have this problem or is it my computer??? I is usually one of the advertisers that is shown when reading a post and has links to something that is applicable to the postings below the post..... Hope that this makes sense to you... thanks

Muhammad · Oct 23, 2003

We don't accept pop-up advertising and no other pop-ups are running in the forums right now. Might be something that got installed on your computer---I think 'Gator' causes pop-ups on various web sites.

markie61 · Oct 23, 2003

My daughters got this Gator crap when the were using Kazaa, a music download service. It was bogging the machine's performance. We had to work hard to get it off their machines. Very few "free" things are without cost /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif...
Mark

Bird · Oct 23, 2003

You might want to read the thread I started My Computer's Gone Berserk? and maybe find some answers. And yes, Gator was one of the things I had unknowingly acquired.

gator · Oct 23, 2003

Muhammad and Mark, I resent that /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif, I have no idea how to create pop ups /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif.

Junkman · Oct 23, 2003

I am not running GATOR on my computer and never had. The pop ups are the sites that are advertisers at the bottom of the page. I will have to investigate this further, but I did look at the other post "my computer..... " and did look at the "test" site and did the test and the results were negative. Thanks for the speedy reply.......

Gatorboy · Oct 23, 2003

In the meantime, download the Google toolbar -- it has a popup blocker along with other neat features. /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

dieselsmoke1 · Oct 23, 2003

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( I am not running GATOR on my computer and never had.)</font>

At the risk of being redundant, are you sure you don't have spyware installed? If you were to spend time on a forum devoted to flowers for example, the spyware would report this back to Momma which in turn would target you with flower ads. Tractors are no different.

If you have not done so, download a spyware program such as Search and Destroy, my choice, or AdAware . They're both freeware and good programs.

Junkman · Oct 23, 2003

I am running PestPatrol..... it is time for a renewal, so I will investigate the two that you mentioned....... strange thing is that it hasn't happened at all tonight.... must have scared the computer into submission....... /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

Wildman1 · Oct 24, 2003

I run Popper Stopper, a free download, that only allows 1 window at a time to be displayed. I also run SpyBot to clean spyware and Spy Blaster to immunize my 'puter from accepting any spyware. I also run Zone Alarm, a software firewall to keep the hackers at bay. All of these are free. Lastly, I subscribe to my ISP's anti-virus and anti-spam service for $12/yr. Oh, I run PcCillin 2003 anti-virus on my 'puters as well. I'm on broadband and need all the protection available.