Ads, pop-ups, and other annoying things

[double8]

Why am I all of a sudden getting all these pop-ups, highlighted words and other junk on this forum? The area above "your message'' here is called "ads by bettersurf".....how did it get in this forum.
I have pop-ups blocked on my computer, but does this forum allow these??

[jmort]

I have never got a pop-up ad here. It is on your computer.

[Freightman]

Me nether,

[oneokie]

Have you updated any programs?

Visited any new sites?

Run your anti virus and anti malware programs.

[lylejb]

pop-ups, highlighted words and other junk

I have none of this on this forum.

Your computer is infected with some kind of ad - ware.

Try downloading and running malwarebytes it usually helps.

www.malwarebytes.org

[double8]

I have none of this on this forum.

Your computer is infected with some kind of ad - ware.

Try downloading and running malwarebytes it usually helps.

www.malwarebytes.org

Thank you...ran the malwarebytes....no more pop-ups or highlighted words. Don't know where I picked up the garbage, I'm very careful about where I go on the net...

[bob208]

google chrome. delete it a lot of your problems will stop.

[jeepyj]

I've had no pop-ups
Jeepyj

[Dale in Louisiana]

Thank you...ran the malwarebytes....no more pop-ups or highlighted words. Don't know where I picked up the garbage, I'm very careful about where I go on the net...

Be very careful when you get tagged to update programs such as PDF viewers, etc. A lot of them have a bad habit of piggybacking adware onto the update, usually because you have to locate and check a block to NOT load the garbage with the program you're installing.

I've done it myself because I get in a hurry and don't pay attention.

Next thing you know, you have unwanted toolbars and you're attracting popups like crazy. When I was running a Windows machine, I kept Malwarebytes up to date and ran it every week or so.

dale in Louisiana

[Bill*]

And not just "piggybacking" but also when you get notified that this or that needs updating, go to the original Co. (IE: Adobe, Microsoft, Etc.) A few times I found that I was fully up to date and have no idea what they were trying to push me to download but it wasn't what they said it was!

[JakeBlanton]

I read an article awhile back that talked about web sites that were most likely to be infected. Everyone assumed it was the porn sites, but it turned out that the study had shown that it was the religious sites. Turns out that the porn sites have enough money to hire proper IT people to manage their sites and either prevent or react quickly to infections whereas the religious sites are often either run by volunteers or are using less experienced (i.e. cheaper) people to mange the site.

[snuffy]

I HAD the same thing Double8, I don't know where it came from either. Most of the pop-ups and the highlighted garbage could be removed by following instructions they provided. One however resisted mall-ware and my trend titanium, neither recognized it as a virus. I was due for a re-format anyway, my great nephew is a computer geek, has his own computer sale & service store.

He nuked the virus, cloned my hard drive, then put a 2X bigger hard drive in the old tower. Returned everything back into the new drive. Then increased the RAM. Bad news was the mother board on this l-cheapo Dell wouldn't take windows 7, windows XP will cease to be supported/renewed by Microsoft next summer. So it's a new computer in the near future for me.

[Win94ae]

LOL!
This reminds me of instances on another site which uses Google ads. Every month or so a member will be angered at the pornographic ads approved by the site; when in actuality, the ads are generated by the users passed searches.

[Johnny_V]

I use Firefox with the add-on "Ghostery" and this site has only one Ad block, and it is "AvantLink". Could be somewhere else you've been causing pop-ups.....

[montana_charlie]

LOL!
This reminds me of instances on another site which uses Google ads. Every month or so a member will be angered at the pornographic ads approved by the site; when in actuality, the ads are generated by the users passed searches.
It seems to have ended a few weeks ago, but for a while I kept getting notified that "2 people had spied on me" and I could go (someplace) to find out who.

Since the message went away, I guess the spies died of boredom.

CM

[uscra112]

I use Firefox with the add-on "Ghostery" and this site has only one Ad block, and it is "AvantLink". Could be somewhere else you've been causing pop-ups.....

+1 to that. Firefox, Ghostery, and Adblock. You'll never see that junk again. Life will be good.

[uscra112]

@snuffy. My IT friends say Microsoft not only won't but can't make XP stop working. It's just that they won't issue any more "updates" to kill hacks and malware. If you are running a good third-party firewall/anti-virus like McAfee, (which you ought to be), you won't notice. (I rarely ever bother letting MS update my XP, since the update always demands that I reboot at some inconvenient time, or worse yet makes me wait up to 20 minutes when I shut the machine down.

[snuffy]

@snuffy. My IT friends say Microsoft not only won't but can't make XP stop working. It's just that they won't issue any more "updates" to kill hacks and malware. If you are running a good third-party firewall/anti-virus like McAfee, (which you ought to be), you won't notice. (I rarely ever bother letting MS update my XP, since the update always demands that I reboot at some inconvenient time, or worse yet makes me wait up to 20 minutes when I shut the machine down.

My nephew essentially said the same thing, they won't/can't make it stop working, they just won't issue/support any fixes after next June. I have trend titanium virus protection, probably not the best, but it does work and has stopped a number of viruses from setting up shop in my browser. Also running firefox, which I very much prefer over IE.

I wanted a new graphics/video modem, no such luck, the one Dell provided is hard wired into the mother board. There should be a port to plug a better one into, not even where it should/could have been installed. Another way for dell to save a couple of bucks. I wanted to use google earth, it wouldn't work with the old one, needed updating, then the update wasn't compatible with the old modem. Strike three, yer---out!.

[georgerkahn]

I had similar a while back, and concur it is "in" your computer. After weeks of frustration and inability to get rid of it, I stumbled across a FREE product called Norton Power Eraser. I googled it, downloaded it, and tried it. I did not see anything happen -- but by gum and by golly -- the annoyance(s) ceased! I can't "recommend it" -- while emphatically exclaiming, "It sure worked wonders for me!!!" Best wishes! geo