whats up with these **** popups?

**TosaInu** · 10-09-2005, 21:02

Can you say whether you picked it up on this site SpencerH?

**SpencerH** · 10-10-2005, 02:20

I'm not saying I've picked up spyware from here, but over the last week (or maybe more) there has been a constant onslaught from the pop-ups at this site that are the typical deceptive spyware garbage put on the web by low-lifes. I realize y'all dont directly control the pop-up content but it only takes one false move to end up with gator or some other 'legitimate' spyware on your PC and it can take a huge effort to get it back out. I like this site, but not enough to visit while this is going on. I know that apolyton had the same problems and they fixed it by switching advertisers.

**TosaInu** · 10-10-2005, 10:55

I understand SpenerH, but I mean: are you sure this site distributed the pop-ups and that you didn't pick pop-ups up from somewhere else? And which pop-ups did you get? It's much harder/impossible to search/solve (either myself or host) when you don't know what is to be solved.

**SpencerH** · 10-10-2005, 12:05

I guess it's possible that they're coming while leaving another site so I'll monitor the situation a bit more closely and get back to you. It's strange, but based on the onslaught yesterday I should've already had one but I haven't.

**TosaInu** · 10-10-2005, 15:13

Maybe they came from another site, maybe it's part of some rotating advertising campaign. I guess it's even possible to have tailored advertising: time, country, browsing behaviour .. What was it about?

**Mikeus Caesar** · 10-10-2005, 17:32

Use print-screen and take a picture of them, so we can see exactly what they look like. Sounds nasty.

**SpencerH** · 10-11-2005, 16:29

Strangely enough, I havent had another batch since writing my warning about them.

Two things come to mind:

It was related to something hiding (now expunged by adaware) on my HD - but then why only pop-up here?

Other sites have complained and the advertisers have removed them from rotation.

In any case, I'll be quick to get the necessary info if they appear again.

EDIT: One last point that I forgot about which may also explain why I havn't got new pop-ups, I havn't been on the site as much.