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Dec 12, 2013 | 09:19 PM

StanleyZ

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From: Georgia

POP UP ADS

Am I the only one getting pop up ads. Every time I open a new thread I get some kind of little you tube like ad. I thought I paid not to have to get that stuff.

Dec 13, 2013 | 04:59 AM

senix

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From: Frederick, MD

perhaps you have some spam on your PC. Run something like spybot and see if that helps to get rid of it.

You can also change your browser setting to NOT allow popups.

Dec 13, 2013 | 07:15 AM

StanleyZ

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Originally Posted by senix

perhaps you have some spam on your PC. Run something like spybot and see if that helps to get rid of it.

You can also change your browser setting to NOT allow popups.

Yes, you are corret as usual. After I posted I was on ebay getting the same ads. I have a blocker so I guess somebody figured a way around it.

Dec 13, 2013 | 09:09 AM

wp6529

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Suggest you add this to your collection of spam defenses:

Blocking Unwanted Connections with a Hosts File

I've been using it for a long time and when I surf on someone else's machine I am always amazed at the amount of spam they put up with.

Dec 13, 2013 | 09:42 AM

Chalkie

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Originally Posted by wp6529

That is a good solution, but I have found I need to massage it a little as it sometime blocks things you should be seeing and I haven't figured out why. I run Superantispyware in addition to Spybot. They both seem to see slightly different things. What you DON'T want to do is run two antivirus programs at the same time, they will fight each other.

Dec 15, 2013 | 07:57 PM

sailmfast

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I run Firefox as my browser and my son uses my laptop to play games. Check the add-ons and extensions to your browser. Ad Choice does exactly as you explained and plays a you tube type pop up. I delete the add on and no more ads.

Dec 15, 2013 | 09:56 PM

aquaman

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I updated to the latest free edition of Alcohol52 drive emulator just recently. They're very tricky now. If you blindly 'accept' or 'ok' every screen duration installation, it'll install all sorts of crap that's easy to miss. Even after I read the fine print and disabled the options to install the crap, some stupid 'smart-browsing' pop-up was obscuring my screen no matter where I surfed. They snuck that thing in and fortunately I found it buried in the list of installed programs. So I unstalled it and so far so good