These are a major problem. I have pop-up blocker on Secure IE, but these are coming up on IE. If I shut them down, as soon as I click to another page, I get kicked out, so I have to login everytime.
The only way to stay logged in, is to keep the pop-up open....which is a major pain.
"A piece of toast with butter always lands butter side down, and a cat always lands on its feet. What happens if a piece of toast is tied butter side down to the back of falling cat? Does it hover above the ground in perpetual indecision?"
As already mentioned, try adaware to get rid of spyware that has already been put onto your system.
It would also be wise to avoid using IE as your primary browser...Firefox or Avant are more secure.
Also...
Use SpywareBlaster to avoid downloading many cookies that hold spyware.
Use ccleaner to clean up many windows vulnerabilities that can slow down your computer.
All are freeware and I highly recommend all of them.
Thanks for letting me know. I'll look into the cause of the popups.
Concerning firefox, it is only because you're indoctrinated into using IE that you think firefox is "not that good." The truth is, IE hasn't been seriously updated in fuctionality or web standards compatibility for years now. The only reason MS is coming out with IE7 is because Firefox is making them look really bad. The vast majority of websites which display "incorrectly" in Firefox and "correctly" in IE as simply coded incorrectly.
Interesting point, Caedes. I recently switched from IE to Firefox, and I recommend it to everyone. My sole points of contention were these: My site, which was coded incorrectly wasn't showing up as I wanted it to in Firefox, and Firefox isn't bound as tightly to the operating system as IE is. Because of the second problem, Windows integrated security wasn't passed along in Firefox as it was in IE. It seems to me that back in 1996 the U.S. courts ruled that this behavior on Microsoft's part was illegal, but I guess a few well-placed campaign cotributions prevented that from being prosecuted.
I've been using Firefox for about 7-8 months now - very happy!! I like the tab features. Once you use it a while it's quite good. FYI Caedes - I haven't been getting any pop-ups (if that helps). I do use adaware often.
Hmmm. Ok, no pop-ups this morning. I did a virus scan on my comp this morning, and shredded a few folders last night.
I don't use regular IE, I use a programme called Secure IE from Winferno. I'll have a look at Adaware, and other stuff. I'll look at Firefox again and see what.
Anytime you have pop-ups happening - especially when you haven't clicked anything - that's a pretty good sign that you have adware/spyware lurking on your computer. In my computer lab, I use Spybot Search and Destroy. It does a good job eliminating them. I fixed a computer the other day that had over 100,000 hacks from spyware - it was a mess. Protect your computer.
Firefox does a nice job of protecting you from all the good and bad things out there. I rather like the good things though. I finally re-coded all of my own websites to be XHTML compliant and work in firefox, with some additional crutches so that it will also work in internet explorer. I am still mad at firefox for having such a worthless javascript engine though. Running any complex script with lots of short timeouts in it bogs down most machines terribly, especially with regard to other browser and networking functions.
I've done a lot of forum research hoping to find solutions from other programmers but it seems that while firefox holds its own in terms of the amount of time it takes to complete something like a simple counting loop, it is just hopelessly awful when it comes to any complicated javascript, and there doesn't appear to be any improvement in sight.
The image scroller on my own site is a good example. While it scrolls smoothly on internet explorer, completing all of its code in plenty of time to keep up with any short timeout, it is slow and choppy on mozilla browsers. To keep it from bogging down those browsers I decided to increase the timeouts and step sizes, because it couldn't handle simple scrolling anyway. Even with the current settings it appears to inch-worm it's way across the screen on slower computers.
Mozilla browsers also do a terrible job keeping up with my break-out game on the same website. I haven't added any work-around for that so you can try it out yourself if you're interested. Someone else wrote a script just to demonstrate the problem where it runs for a few loops and then bogs down so badly that it eventually just stops running all-together. I don't know the link to that script off-hand but there are plenty of examples out there. Until firefox fixes its javascript engine I will just have to lock-down IE as well as I can because it's going to be my primary browser.
In the unlikely event that anyone cares enough about that stuff to want to see my image scroller try to run at full capacity on a mozilla browser just let me know and I'll upload a temporary page and link to it. I will say that I love the improved script debugging (IE's being complete garbage). Damn you firefox, you're so close to being good.
i just swirched to firefox about a month ago. even though I am an avid web user and know my share of programming, i still was indoctrinated with IE and would blurt out at a moments notice that Firefox sucked. but that's just a lie of the devil...firefox is way better than IE, and it made me clean up my programming style especially when it came to CSS. However, I agree with Torque, it has some Javascript problems that I came across. But other than that, who cares. That's one thing in a million. IE isn't as convenient as firefox and it produces sloppy programmers.
One must not shed tears. That is the defeat of the body by the heart. Because this thing called "the heart" can become nothing less than proof that one's existence is superfluous.
- Rukia
Why use a program to remove unwanted files from your system such as Adaware, or Spybot, when you can use a program that blocks them from ever loading onto your system in the first place? I recommend "Spyware Blaster"...it's FREE, and I'd suggest that everyone use it. I still run Adaware from time to time, but since installing Spyware Blaster...I hardly ever find anything suspicious with Adaware. By the way....I'm using IE6, and run McAfee Security Suite. XP Home; SP2, and I use the default XP pop-up blocker.
One must not shed tears. That is the defeat of the body by the heart. Because this thing called "the heart" can become nothing less than proof that one's existence is superfluous.
- Rukia
The only way to stay logged in, is to keep the pop-up open....which is a major pain.
Can you change the adverts please?