August 20, 2003, 02:42
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Pop up hell
Why have I received a pop up about every hour or so? Many of them gator, and / or multiples?
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August 20, 2003, 02:47
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They are probably all the fault of one advertising company not following the rules.
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August 20, 2003, 03:04
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Another 15 minutes, 2 more pop up assaults. 1 of them gator.
/Sorry, 20 minutes.
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August 20, 2003, 03:08
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Another 2 pop ups going to another section, and then getting back here.
Is anyone else getting this? Maybe I should be checking my system.
Thing is, it does not happen elsewhere.
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August 20, 2003, 03:24
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And another pair of pop ups.
At this rate, I better be one of Poly's top earners, or I'm gonna get seriously unhappy.
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August 20, 2003, 03:25
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Wait a minute, I'm not too happy as it is...
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August 20, 2003, 04:02
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Maybe you should try a real Browser.  Mozilla, Mozilla Firebird or Opera. They all know how to kill those annoying pop-ups.
Proud Mozzist with only one pop-up in 6 months
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August 20, 2003, 04:35
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Proud Opera Singer with only no pop-ups in 12 months
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August 20, 2003, 06:00
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Proud Mozzist who got the pop-up accidentally, and before that was pop-up free for at least one year (or was it since Mozilla 1.0)
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August 20, 2003, 06:06
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Re: Pop up hell
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Originally posted by notyoueither
Why have I received a pop up about every hour or so? Many of them gator, and / or multiples?
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Only one popup each hour? I get more like 1 popup each time I click something... of course it might because you only click once per hour 
...better get my popup killer installed again...
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August 20, 2003, 06:32
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I was getting some PUs as well. Try to determine who the offending advertizer is. If it pops up at the beginning of the page load then it is probably the banner advertizer.
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August 20, 2003, 07:09
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That's weird...........I just used IE to see what all the fuss was about and I got one popup at the start, then no more.
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August 20, 2003, 09:46
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Yeah bags of pop-ups. I thought gator had been banned from the site.
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August 20, 2003, 10:46
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I'm getting more PUs too. 
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August 20, 2003, 13:15
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Holy f****** pop ups Batman. Guess I am not the only one.
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August 20, 2003, 13:40
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My Firewall kills the pop ups for me. 
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August 20, 2003, 13:54
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I'm using IE and no problem, only the usual two at startup.
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August 20, 2003, 14:01
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**shrug** I've received three pop-up ads since coming to 'Poly roughly seven minutes ago. I managed to nab the addresses of at least two of them (I have IE-Mac 5.1 set so they can't just deposit cookies willy-nilly w/o me knowing about it). The possible offenders are:
.z1.adserver.com
.gator.com
Hopefully this information will prove useful to whoever might care.
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August 20, 2003, 14:09
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OK, I just got nailed by two more pop-up ads, both from eBay. I also had to decline more cookies from:
.qksrv.net
.commission-junction.com/
.mediaplex
I'm outta here for the timebeing. Work beckons ...
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August 20, 2003, 14:35
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This has been discussed to death. Change your viewing style to Ultra Special, and you should receive less PU's.
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August 20, 2003, 14:43
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I had lots of pop-ups with the special style, but now that I am back to standard, I get only one per day + one each time I click a link. 
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August 20, 2003, 15:49
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You poor MSIE users will get that one catched by Ad-aware and Spybot S&D.
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August 20, 2003, 16:27
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Originally posted by Asmodean
This has been discussed to death. Change your viewing style to Ultra Special, and you should receive less PU's.
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Or, one could download the new Google Bar which has a built in popup-blocker without the bloatware or spyware.
Where can you get this marvelous tool? Here:
http://toolbar.google.com/
Unfortunately, its for Internet Explorer only.
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August 20, 2003, 21:00
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Originally posted by Asmodean
This has been discussed to death. Change your viewing style to Ultra Special, and you should receive less PU's.
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I have been using Ultra special for over a year, yet all of the sudden I'm getting PUs.
Try again.
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August 20, 2003, 21:17
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Odd. Using Moz and ain't gotten a thing. I'll sign in on IE though
EDIT: I'm going to put an outside link here to test some more. It is indeed likely all you guys just got infected with spyware OR you're getting it from another app or site.
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August 20, 2003, 21:26
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I'm using "Default-Ultra Special-Civ3" and recieving no more popups than usual in either browser.
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August 20, 2003, 21:39
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Originally posted by Comrade Tassadar
Unfortunately, its for Internet Explorer only.
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opera can already do all those things....
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August 21, 2003, 05:35
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And so can Mozilla.
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August 22, 2003, 10:08
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 Is the recent increasing in popups in my pc related to my switching to the default style?! How could I see the last poster name and still keep the ultra light style?
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August 23, 2003, 02:31
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Petition the admin to make a new style!
/me signs the petition
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