No site that I run currently produces any popup advertising of any kind. If you are seeing a popup ad, you are receiving it because your copy of Internet Explorer has been hijacked in a way that when you browse sites, it looks for certain things, and when they are seen, it will display advertising related to that.
There is indeed a googlebar on the site... but its incorporated into the website, and is NOT a popup. So if you are seeing any window open as a result... I have two recommendations:
1.) Installed the googlebar. This is a GREAT tool as it allows blocked popups, and also shows you a site's google ranking to determine where it fits into the grand scheme of things.
2.) Install a freeware program called SpyBot.. it is the BEST program I have ever seen for removing things that misuse Internet Explorer, etc. Often when packages are installed like KaZaa peer-to-peer client, they require these ad programs to be installed on your machine. It makes a mess. My advice.. get spybot which removes malicious junk off of your machine and returns Internet Explorer back to what it was meant to be.
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JR, another product people should look for is AdAware - Spybot is better, but AdAware does catch some things that SpyBot doesn't.
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Good call Jim I run both products and they need to be updated often for the best results
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Another program that I use is called POW! - it's a popup killer as well. Now I haven't installed the Google Toolbar yet, so it may be redundant. However, you can get this utility from: www.analogx.comPosts: 1907 | From: I hope I'm not repeating myself. Again. And Again. Stop picking on me! Waaahhh!! | Registered: Feb 2000
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Another good program to run is "Spyhunter", it cost me $29.95 and does a good job of finding parasites. A few day's ago a trogan horse infiltrated my system and I ran the program and it got rid of the culprit.
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quote:Originally posted by Jim Mac: JR, another product people should look for is AdAware - Spybot is better, but AdAware does catch some things that SpyBot doesn't.
I am going to have to check out AdAware. I run Spybot as well but want to get it all if possible.
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