08-07-2004 00:06									#1
	Click a link and get nasty advert installing things Get a bigger avatar today!

Ok clicked on a link in a thread, got this message pop up:

Attachment: warning.jpg
This has been downloaded 101 time(s).

	08-07-2004 00:07									#2
	Increase the size of your Attachments

It charges in pounds?

	08-07-2004 00:07									#3
	Support Apolyton buy from Amazon

And a cookie request that I declined:

Attachment: cookie.jpg
This has been downloaded 100 time(s).

	08-07-2004 00:19									#4
	Suffering from ads?

Ok this is annoying. Any external links I click on give me this crap and its one of those annoying recurring pop ups that won't take 'no' for an answer.

	08-07-2004 00:20									#5
	Help yourself to an AD-FREE life

What thread? You should PM the person who posted it and possibly MarkG. Perhaps it was intentional... or some mistake.

	08-07-2004 00:22									#6
	Browse Apolyton AD-FREE

I first noticed it on a thread that I made, and its a link to a BBC webpage.

Now I notice its on any external link from Poly - i.e its coming from the redirect screens you get after clicking an external link.

	08-07-2004 02:19									#7
	Support Apolyton, buy Civilization: The Boardgame

let me know if you get it again

	08-07-2004 02:37									#8
	Support Apolyton, buy Galactic Civilizations

Scary stuff.
Haven't seen them... don't want to...

	08-07-2004 02:46									#9
	Avatar Enlargement: We've got the solution

The pop-ups are gone. Thanx. Will let you know if they reappear.

	08-07-2004 11:01									#10
	Remove this text

Clicking links might get you in all kinds of ackward situations. It all depends on what links you click

	08-07-2004 14:37									#11
	Get a bigger avatar today!

[Obligatory]

Use Firefox

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	08-07-2004 15:31									#12
	Support Apolyton buy from Amazon

I thought Markos didn't like people using pop up filters, such as the automatic filters in Firefox.

	08-07-2004 16:31									#13
	Support Apolyton, buy GURPS/ Alpha Centauri

Since when do we care what Markos likes?

	08-07-2004 20:58									#14
	Support Apolyton, buy Alpha Centauri

[Obligatory]

Use Opera.

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	08-07-2004 22:00									#15
	Lose 30 kilos (of popups)

I'm having the same problem that Dauphin since a few days ago, but it happens only once (just when I click in the first thread when I log in).

It's a Weather stuff installer. I'm pretty sure that someday I'll click "yes" by mistake

	08-07-2004 22:58									#16
	Remove this text

Opera

Firefox

	09-07-2004 01:19									#17
	Got spare money?

quote: Originally posted by CyberShy Since when do we care what Markos likes?

Because if you are uberniceandthoughtful to him he may give you privileges like a bigger avatar wihtout having to pay +plus.

	09-07-2004 01:51									#18
	Tired of ads?

quote: Originally posted by Dauphin Because if you are uberniceandthoughtful to him he may give you privileges like a bigger avatar wihtout having to pay +plus.

really? would our great leader, light of our lives, master of all intelligence and supreme lord of the earth, would he be so kind?

markos! markos! markos! hurrah!

	09-07-2004 02:14									#19
	Get a bigger avatar today!

quote: Originally posted by Dauphin I thought Markos didn't like people using pop up filters, such as the automatic filters in Firefox.

Firefox allows you to exempt sites from the pop-up blocker.

	09-07-2004 02:37									#20
	Suffering from ads?

Hey, something's fishy here!

I started getting powerdialler today which spybot S&D cleans each time, but it somehow reappears. IIRC, I was browsing Apolyton when I got it first, but I can't remember if I was browsing anything else as well. I may be wrong about this, but still....

Btw, does anybody know anything about this sort of dialer? It managed to connect twice, before I got to unplug my phone line.

	09-07-2004 02:41									#21
	Increase the size of your Attachments

quote: Firefox allows you to exempt sites from the pop-up blocker.

ah, yes, under options web features. Given that information I can now admit to using Firefox.

	12-07-2004 16:01									#22
	Support Apolyton buy from Amazon

quote: Originally posted by Dauphin I thought Markos didn't like people using pop up filters, such as the automatic filters in Firefox.

You can selectly disable popup blocking in Firefox. The great thing is since it doesn't know ActiveX ( :vomit: ), any scripts that want to install stuff on your Wintel box are ignored.