17-08-2002 23:58									#1
	What's the Deal With the Pop-up Ad ASSAULT?!?! Inflate your Upload Space

When I came here today, I got "assaulted" by no less than five pop-up ads in a row. As soon as I closed one, a second popped up and this process repeated five or so times. Then, to add insult to injury, I was somehow automatically thrown back to my homepage.

Is this the small type we should have read before signing on to this one-popup-ad-every-six-hours (*good for the first three months) style?

Gatekeeper

	18-08-2002 00:52									#2
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I do not get any. Your computor may be infected with an advertising trogen like "searchligh" (which is the one your case sounds like). You may want to get an adware/spyware buster program (free) ar lavasoft.com.

	18-08-2002 02:15									#3
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Lefty:

Hmm ... OK. I'll take a look at what lavasoft.com has. Hopefully something that works on a Mac. Thanks.

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	18-08-2002 02:18									#4
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Lefty:

It appears that lavasoft.com is some sort of educational site with ties to Japan. What's up with that?

Gatekeeper

	18-08-2002 03:40									#5
	Help yourself to an AD-FREE life

lavasoft.de not lavasoft.com

http://www.lavasoft.de

	18-08-2002 03:49									#6
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SD:

Ah, much better. Unfortunately, they appear to not have any options for a Macintosh. Fortunately, the pop-up ad flurry only happened at 'Poly, once so far. Maybe in six or so hours it'll show up again.

In the meantime, I'll mosey on over to a Mac site and see what they've got, just to be sure.

Gatekeeper

	18-08-2002 04:55									#7
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There's an easy and very working cure to your problem. Mozilla. One version for MacOS 8-9 and for MacOS X.

http://www.mozilla.org

	18-08-2002 06:26									#8
	Browse Apolyton AD-FREE

I get massive numbers of pop-ups, but only on campus.

	18-08-2002 07:21									#9
	Got spare money?

quote: Originally posted by Sagacious Dolphin lavasoft.de not lavasoft.com http://www.lavasoft.de

oops, sorry.

	18-08-2002 14:01									#10
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you're telling me that you visited a single apolyton page, a single time, and got 5 pop-ups?

	18-08-2002 17:58									#11
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I have had 2 before but never 5 for the same single apolyton page

	18-08-2002 21:49									#12
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Still sounds like the searchlight advertising trojen to me. Sometime this one will also chage the tool bars on your browser.

	19-08-2002 01:21									#13
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Markos, Lefty, et al.:

Well, it hasn't happened except for that single time ... which is why I was surprised by it and, voila!, this topic appeared.

The only thing I did was click the "close window" icon in the upper left-hand corner of the pop-up window (on a Mac, at any rate). As soon as I did that, another pop-up would be born. This continued for four or five times before sending me back to my homepage.

Is it possible the advertiser had code built-in to the pop-up that would automatically bring another window up if the other was closed before completely loading or something?

Gatekeeper

	19-08-2002 01:42									#14
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quote: The only thing I did was click the "close window" icon in the upper left-hand corner of the pop-up window (on a Mac, at any rate). As soon as I did that, another pop-up would be born. This continued for four or five times before sending me back to my homepage. Is it possible the advertiser had code built-in to the pop-up that would automatically bring another window up if the other was closed before completely loading or something?

well that sounds quite possible yes. we definately dont have any code to create 5 pop-ups.
we mace a call to a javascript on our ad provider's server. if they make a change or if they put up an ad that has extra code to do something like that, that's beyond our reach

we are in the process of arranging an additional provider of pop-up ads. if these kind of incidents continue we'll probably just switch totally to them...

	19-08-2002 02:36									#15
	Put an end to popups!

quote: Originally posted by Mr. President I get massive numbers of pop-ups, but only on campus.

Someone's been surfing at some xxx-sites.

	19-08-2002 05:49									#16
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I meant at Apolyton! If I had done what you said on campus I would have been expelled.

	19-08-2002 12:05									#17
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I don't know about Mac compatability, but here is the website of my favourite free weapon against the evil popups ...

http://www.panicware.com/popupstopper.html

Me =

Popups =

	20-08-2002 20:32									#18
	Inflate your Upload Space

If you close the window before it picks the ad it will open a new one, if you wate til the title changes it will close.

	21-08-2002 01:07									#19
	Lose 30 kilos (of popups)

quote: Originally posted by Ren I don't know about Mac compatability, but here is the website of my favourite free weapon against the evil popups ... http://www.panicware.com/popupstopper.html Me = Popups =

Or just use "Opera and select "refuse pop up ads.

	21-08-2002 06:19									#20
	Enter the AD-FREE zone

quote: Originally posted by Mr. President I get massive numbers of pop-ups, but only on campus.

Ditto. Looking at 'Poly on the uni Macs is especially bad.

	21-08-2002 06:25									#21
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i have seen this before, stupid programs similar to spy-ware that install themselves on your systems without telling you. if this is the case, you should be able to find the executable somewhere, in fact i have seen the programs in the add/remove programs list. it might have a name that isn't recognizable, but may sound like it belongs on your system. simply removing/deleting the program solves the problem in most cases.