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Title: delayed pop-up ads / amiga.org
Post by: amiga2000 on April 03, 2004, 06:05:10 PM

Hi - I was curious whether anyone else is experiencing a delayed pop-up ad after closing their browser (well I am using internet explorer). this phenomenon was new to me, so I was not sure if I had accidentally installed some adware software... but I experimented a bit, and it seems like it starts occuring (consistently) after going to the amiga.org website. well, I do not mind if it is generating money for amiga.org, but I wanted to pin it down to make sure it is not something else.



FORGET IT - I just did some more testing. and I think it is not amiga.org, it must be something with my browser.

Title: Re: delayed pop-up ads / amiga.org
Post by: Ilwrath on April 03, 2004, 06:42:19 PM

Yeah.... you've been adware'd....  Might I suggest Mozilla (http://mozilla.org/)?   :-)

Title: Re: delayed pop-up ads / amiga.org
Post by: GadgetMaster on April 03, 2004, 07:30:07 PM

You need:

ADAWARE (http://lavasoft.element5.com/software/adaware/)

Also:

SPYBOT (http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?page=download)

You'll be surprised how much junk they find and clear out.

Title: Re: delayed pop-up ads / amiga.org
Post by: amiga2000 on April 03, 2004, 08:40:32 PM

thanks for the suggestions - it was actually a trojan virus - I am trying to remove it right now.