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stop the pop up s aaaaaaaaarrrggg

18 years ago

MY COMPUTER IS RUNNING SO HARD RIGHT NOW IT'S UN REAL THESE ARE JUST LIKE THOSE ANNOYING PORN POP UPS U GET WHEN YOU HAVE A VIRUS IT WASN'T LIKE THIS YESTERDAY THIS SITE HAS FOUND A WAY TO STOP MY POP UP BLOCKER SO BASICALLY THIS SITE IS SIMULAR TO A SMALL VIRUS CAN U IMAGINE WHAT THE STUFF ON THIS SITE IS GETTING FROM YOUR COOKIES. DID YOU ALL READ THERE NEW AGREEMENT. BOGUS

Comments (7)

Adella Bedella
18 years ago
I'm not getting pop ups and haven't for several days.
techsupport8
18 years ago
I have never seen a pop up on this site and I've been a member for 5 years. I religiously upgrade my spybot, my adaware, my spyware blaster, and popup blockers and keep my virus software in tip top conditon.

Dumping one's cookies occasionally is just good housekeeping.
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I'm on Firefox on my laptop and have my popup blocker on and am seeing it. I'll switch over to Chrome and see what happens. Edited: I couldn't get into this forum on Chrome. Additionally, when I went back to my usual Firefox and tried to post photos on the Home Decorating forum the pictures were nice and large until I submitted them and then they shrank down to less than half their size and put very wide spaces between the pictures. All this makes me want to scream!
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18 years ago
I am only seeing the ads I saw before, which I generally ignore .. no popups for me, but then I also use spyware, adware, virus software etc...

linda
sweets98
18 years ago
I don't have any pop-up's, either. The only Pop-Up blocking software I have is what comes with AOL now.

Only once in a blue moon do I see one of those ads and that's when I tend to run my Disk Clean-up and Ad-Aware and Spybot. Whatever causes them goes away when I do all that.
chuckr30
18 years ago
Use Mozilla Firefox. I have it and it blocks pop ups real good, and it blocks image ads. It also has a plugin to block flash ads too and it works great. I hear IE6 also can block popups but IE is always a major security problem. You could easily get a virus or worm which would destroy data on your PC.

Get Firefox at www.mozilla.org.
firemansmom
18 years ago
I have Mozilla Firefox also and it works great, I was getting the ads right in the middle of what I was reading, very frustrating, I had my son set it up for me and bingo no more ads.

firemansmom
seatofmypants99
18 years ago
Sounds like you have gotten spyware from somewhere. Get the free Spybot program and run it.

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