Was clearing out a pc today that was infected with spyware and popups, and there were several skoda popups that appeared... do you think this is legitimate form of advertising.. or just annoying??

It's a good way of seeing how quick you are with a mouse...

Pop up

Pop up

Pop up

Close!

Close!

Close!

Go to next web page...

Pop up

Close!

Pop up

Close!

Pop up

Close!

:coder: :lamer:

Really though... Has anyone thought "Ooo, pop up window advertising car, must go and test drive it..."?

Pop ups are f*kin' annoying as a whole.

Google toolbar is very good at stopping popups.... and unlike other toolbars does not push advertising of it's own!

each to their own

if pops ups generates revenue to pay for servers / event on briskoda i wouldnt mind them... not 6 per page but the odd one here or there is fine....

Just to clarify a bit..

this popup (and several others - gambling/p0rn/holidays etc) popped up without any provocation.. IE wasnt even running, so was tracked to a spyware process that had got on the system.. adaware took care of it.

Speaking of popups, I get a casino window popup all the time and I cant seem to get rid of it (sometimes there is no browser window even open when it happens). I've scanned my system with multiple programs and they say nothing is there. They are updated, and I cant figure out why. And its very, very annoying

Paul

I've found on some popups that scanning your PC for some keyword in the popup like "casino" in your case - may track down the root of the program and you can delete everything on your PC with "casino" in the filename. Has worked for me sometimes, but normally adaware works fine on them.

A tip here - Alt+F4 can be repeated much quicker than finding multiple closure buttons with a mouse. Specially useful for those popups that insist on being full-screen ... and the little "You must click yes in the next window" ones.

You aren't talking about the grey messenger service pop ups are you?

They won't show in the task bar but you can disable the service so they never appear if you want to

Weather Cast Sick of the sight of them. Every time I switch this shed on, there they are, whoever they are. Some yankey outfit trying to sell me weather forecast updates in the states or summat. WHY? and how did they find me :confused: Can't get rid so just moan and put up ey!

Computers? Great, don't I just love 'em! Doddle!

It sounds like a lot of you are getting hit by messenger service pop ups which are a plain grey box with text on them.

To disable them on windows 200 and xp machines go to start - run then type in services.msc

Scroll down the list to messenger then right click on it and select properties.

Change the startup type to disabled then click OK and next time you reboot the service won't start.

You can also right click on it and stop it just to stop it immediately.

Just attmpted to do that, and lo and behold another one has managed to log itself onto my desk top! :eek: XXX , left clicked on to it thinking it was either gonna be an advert for castlemaine or porn...no...Tiscali 10.0, with an immediate pop up for Casino Pallazo!!!

The tiscali 10.0 thing listed all my history too!!

Good job I've not been where the Mrs and kids wouldn't like me to have been!

Tiscali 10.0 has just pooped up again!

Bloody electric sheds

Edit..just consigned the XXX to the recycle bin, and emptied that too! Will that stop them now?

just install FireFox and its adblock facility... sorts them all out...

can anyone help i want to post a new thread but new to all this...Help!! simple instructions please

cheers all

drew