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ROBERT CROSS · 02-04-2009, 01:20 PM

What the hell is with these pop-up's

**Janet H** · 02-04-2009, 01:55 PM

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Originally Posted by ROBERT CROSS

What the hell is with these pop-up's

OK - got my attention -what pop-ups???

damonbeals · 02-04-2009, 02:00 PM

Download Firefox and Ad Block Plus and you won't see any popup ads! Makes several websites less annoying.

Damon

3 Dog Nite · 02-04-2009, 02:06 PM

I don't see no stinkin pop ups!

shermantic · 02-04-2009, 02:34 PM

I have never gotten pop up on here this is a clean site I think I would know I have owned and operated a private computer solutions firm for more then 15 years now lol Perhaps your computer is infected with spyware, malware, and or viruses?

CanoeStream · 02-04-2009, 03:19 PM

By popup, you mean a small window opening with ad content?

I've used AdBlock but don't now (gotta see what everybody else sees, y'know). Air Forums operates no popups.

My mother has gotten into an annoying variety of "free" browser menu bars. WeatherBug was a particularly bad one. There was another (forget) which was even more difficult to remove. These may promote popups that they judge are of interest or related when you visit sites. This type of issue may not show itself if you run AdAware or Spybot.

Are you getting this on other websites? What is your platform & browser?

These problems are never fun to have.

HankandLois · 02-04-2009, 03:21 PM

Sometimes pop ups can be fun...LOL!

/Lois (not easily shocked)

truc_05 · 02-04-2009, 04:03 PM

As a Network/System's administrator for my company, I could list enough sites that could almost fill up a page! You wouldnt believe the stuff I have had to and still do sometimes clean up after my "fellow" employee's. Dealing with 29 FT people, and 80 PT in one office and half that in another, I stay rather busy during the day.

In the office, I do not allow for Mozilla or any other browser except IE, pretty much everyone is on 7. This is because I am the only IT person, and I need for everyone to have the same software for T/S reasons, and also licensing purposes. I run Trend SMB suite for AV/Malware, and the email scanner on my mail server, its a fantastic AV program.

At home I run IE7, Googles Chrome, and Mozilla between 2 machines. I also do not run any AV software or any other utilitys in that catagory. The reason is this: If I get something at home, i need to know how to clean it, and also find out what it effects, so that if the same thing gets into the office, I can be right on it faster. The other reason is simple. I dont browse the net at home often. IF I turn on the computer its to read certain sites and or pay bills.

I recently upgraded my desktop and reloaded the OS at home, this was the first time in 5 years I reloaded, and I never had a bug or anything of that nature, and my laptop is going on 3 years with out a reload.

I preach to my fellow employee's and yes I yell at my boss for clicking on things that they should not be, like banners, and sometimes popups, and the most notorius is the "Your PC might be Infected, Click here to scan your PC for FREE!" I have yet found away to get rid of some of those, they can be nasty critters, hiding as normal looking system process's or service that is just heck to find.
(My boss is the worst when it comes to clicking on things his friends send him, so I had to turn up his proxing to block a ton of stuff)

Anyhow if you need help you can PM me with your problem, and I might be able to help

romap · 02-04-2009, 04:20 PM

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Dealing with 29 FT people, and 80 PT in one office and half that in another, I stay rather busy during the day.

And you think you're busy? I support 330 users and about 380 computers not counting associated peripherals. Most are at one site, but there are 5 outlying sites,the farthest being 40 miles away. I can't wait to retire!

truc_05 · 02-04-2009, 04:30 PM

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And you think you're busy? I support 330 users and about 380 computers not counting associated peripherals. Most are at one site, but there are 5 outlying sites,the farthest being 40 miles away. I can't wait to retire!

I used to work in big companys like that, and I decided one day that I was to young to have ulcers, so I quit. I found this mid sized company that needed IT and I took it on, so far its been nice to not go home and drink a bottle of mylanta at night!

The last company I worked for before here was 2700 over 55 sites (construction company) with 2700 laptop/desktops scatter between montana the gulf coast, they only allowed for us to have 5 people for support, and the rest of us 5 ran the 200+ servers, then someone had the birght idea to swap us out every two weeks, network service went to support for 2 weeks, it was a failure, so I left. My hair was also thinning out!

Jim Clark · 02-04-2009, 06:35 PM

You haven't lived until you support a tent full of computers used by a bunch of guys and gals with guns and the only thing you have is a laptop. Generator blaring on one side and AC unit on the other. The good thing about this type of situation is everyone looks out for you because you are the keeper of the link to the outside world.

reday · 02-04-2009, 06:44 PM

Get a Mac

Jim Clark · 02-04-2009, 06:55 PM

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Originally Posted by reday

Get a Mac

I own several from very old to the newest very nice machines, each manufacture has their place. I even own a couple of NEXT machines. I did own a Lisa network but let it get away from me.

reday · 02-04-2009, 08:32 PM

Just a tongue in cheek suggestion for all of the thread contributors after 18 years working for Apple. Retired now... no longer have any skin in the game.

ROBERT CROSS · 02-05-2009, 06:30 AM

junk...

truc_05 · 02-05-2009, 07:12 AM

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Originally Posted by Jim Clark

You haven't lived until you support a tent full of computers used by a bunch of guys and gals with guns and the only thing you have is a laptop. Generator blaring on one side and AC unit on the other. The good thing about this type of situation is everyone looks out for you because you are the keeper of the link to the outside world.

I can relate to that in two ways, I was in the USN for 8 years, on the Enterprise the radio room was located on the 3rd deck under the catapolts.. talk about a daily headache... we didnt have guns but the seals would come up for crypto with guns sometimes.

When I was reserve I had to do something like that in Sicily, we flew from Sig to Souda Bay on a helecopter was pushed out and setup a remote communications site for 4 days in the blistering summer. Was fun.

I would rather do all that over again right now than deal with corp. bs, at least the stuff in the navy was fun!

wayner61 · 02-05-2009, 07:43 AM

Bob - I have been on the site off and on pretty regularly the past few days and haven't seen either of those ads. It seems unlikely the site owner would run them based on the content.

You probably want to give your machine a good scan for adware. It certainly looks like something is hijacking the ads in your browser.

JMHO...

Wayne

Jim Clark · 02-05-2009, 08:17 AM

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Originally Posted by truc_05

I can relate to that in two ways, I was in the USN for 8 years, on the Enterprise the radio room was located on the 3rd deck under the catapolts.. talk about a daily headache... we didnt have guns but the seals would come up for crypto with guns sometimes.

When I was reserve I had to do something like that in Sicily, we flew from Sig to Souda Bay on a helecopter was pushed out and setup a remote communications site for 4 days in the blistering summer. Was fun.

I would rather do all that over again right now than deal with corp. bs, at least the stuff in the navy was fun!

I did 4 years in Navy, rode a plane guard DE, then worked for the Navy for another 25. Since you were a Radioman did you have any experience with the R-392 receiver, I have 3 of them at the house, and they are a beast.

truc_05 · 02-05-2009, 10:07 AM

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Originally Posted by Jim Clark

I did 4 years in Navy, rode a plane guard DE, then worked for the Navy for another 25. Since you were a Radioman did you have any experience with the R-392 receiver, I have 3 of them at the house, and they are a beast.

I didnt deal with the radio equipment much, I was an Administrator for the SiPer network that was located in that area, but its very likely, all that stuff in there was massive, I dealt with a weird system that use FM, I used to have to change the amplifier, but again it was all computer controlled

**Janet H** · 02-05-2009, 11:31 AM

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Originally Posted by ROBERT CROSS

junk...

Robert if these ads are in the usual places that we have ads it is possible that they are being fed to the site by Google. We may be able to request that they not be placed here. Pop-up ads are a different matter. They 'pop-up' over the content on the page, covering other text and often move around. (I am resisting making any correlation to the desired result of the product you reference here - the possibilities for off color remarks are endless and very tempting).

If you are seeing true pop-ups, then you may have some malware on your pc as we a re a pop-up free zone. But if these are ads being fed by google, let us know. We would need to know the url (web address) that they link to as well as the link properties. You can find the link properties by right clicking on the ad and looking at the properties in the drop down menu you see. Google does some geo targeting in their advertising and so while it's possible these are google ads, we may not all be seeing them. Perhaps not every region of the country needs this product?