MURCWarez

[Brian R.]

This site had become unbearable with all the pop-up advertisements. Practically everytime I open a forum or topic (well much too often, anyway) I am getting a new window created containing an ad. The last time I had this much trouble with opening windows was at a Warez site.

All I've done is open and comment on one topic, and delete one duplicate post, so far, and already I've created 5 additional ad windows.

Who's responsible for this crap? This cannot continue. It won't be very long before no one will want to deal with this.

[This message has been edited by Brian R. (edited 31 October 2000).]

[ayoub_ibrahim]

I sympathise with you BrianR!!

[paulcs]

It's been that damn Grab.com banner for me this morning. Whenever it appeared, I'd get a pop-up that originated in Grab.com's domain:

http://www.grab.com/popup/tmp-2.asp

Oddly enough, the link broke and I was getting blank screens and DNS errors in the pop-up Window after the first incident.

Paul
paulcs@flashcom.net

[dZeus]

www.webwasher.com

I never had any popup windows on this site... probably because I run webwasher?

[Greebe]

Ditto

[Ant]

I don't run webwasher and haven't seen one of these pop ups no matter how I try

This sort of thread should be posted in site feedback otherwise I might miss it.

[Himself]

I haven't seen any of that either since I reinstalled Windows that time.

[DuRaNgO]

just installed webwasher and it's great!
thanks guys
jim

[Jorden]

I've been running Netscape 4.76 with Javascript on for the past couple of days, ran IE 5.0 at work, and even tried some IE5.5 (before it crashed, with Windows ) at home again, but I've never seen these rogue adverts.

Maybe it's something your ISP has enabled, or maybe it's because you once told something somewhere (unknowingly) that you'd agree to get these pop-ups in the future, just to get rid of it.

All I can say is that I get to work and start IE 5.0 in the morning, log onto MURC and check lots of things here, before I open CC:Mail and Remedy and look in there for things work-related, and I haven't seen the rogue pop-up yet !! (At work we have a continous online connection. So once I open Murc in the morning, I don't close it till just before I go back home again.)

Must be you

Jord.

[Brian R.]

Sorry, I have no clue. It is very sporadic.

ayoub_ibrahim: Does your post mean you have this trouble too?


[This message has been edited by Brian R. (edited 31 October 2000).]

[Brian R.]

Ant: Don't we discourage the use of Webwasher or it's functional equivalent?

Also, I posted this here to get feedback. I don't think the extent of this problem is known.

[This message has been edited by Brian R. (edited 31 October 2000).]

[The PIT]

I've use a firewall that filters out all the ads on this website. However at work I can only see the normal banners at the top nothing else. One thing I did notice on my win2k machine is a sudden appearance of a program group called radiate. On opening this I discovered that it was spyware from Aureate. I've never given permission for this software to be downloaded or installed. Anyway I quick trip www.grc.com for the opt out software removed all this junk. So if you're still seeing rogue banners flying around I would suggest some crap has been downloaded to your machine.

[Brian R.]

Yeah Pit, I'll bet your right. I'm going to clean up my computer.

[Bixler]

Even though this hasn't happened to me yet, I gotta wonder. Who thinks that this kind of intrusion would get you anything but a bunch of angry customers.

Why would advertising buyers pay for a service that did nothing but make customers mad?

Where's the money here??

[Brian R.]

It's probably a subliminal thing.