anyone got any good ones?
In the last hour I've been followed from http://www.free-guitar-tablature.com/ around the net by pop up adds for porn sites

ps. this has never happened before from this site, I've been using it for over a year and its never given me any trouble ???

pps. I've been unable to brouse the forums here because every time I open a window 5 popups open

ppps. are these kind of pop ups even legal?

thanks for the info, I was hoping it would go away after restarting but its the smae f****** adds over and over asking if I want to download some bullsh!t

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Hi Craig...!
To avoid the pop up ads from the site, visit your local music shop and ask for a copy of.....

500 Chord Shapes for the guitar. Compiled & arranged by Keith Papworth. Published by B. Feldman & Co. Ltd.

My copy has a price of 3/-, (three shillings)....!!

You will quickly learn all your 3 chord riffs with the help of this book.
Highly recommended for all budding 'Strat players... ...!

Cheers mate... ...!
Paul.
(England).

P.S. it might not stop the pop-up ads, but at least you will be able to play the guitar just like Jimi Hendrix... 8)...!

where would these things come from anyway?
why me and why the same ones all the time?

Hi Craig...
are you just running the Simviation site while all this is going on...?
I've been logged onto Simviation only, since 7:30 this morning, (12 hours so far), with no annoying pop-ups in the background.... 8)...!

Cheers...
Paul.
(England).

with the help of one of my friends I might have solved the problem, but somehow I just don't trust my computer anymore. I tried an anti-virus scan which came up with nothing, and tried ad-aware twice, got rid of a few unwelcome guests . But how can I know if it is gone?
Also am I right in thinking the browser security settings are controlled from: explorer, tools, internet options?
if so I have no security tab, only General, content, connections and programs ???

I dont get a lot of ads cause i got Norton Internet Security and man is it an ad-killer. I still get some from time to time but nothing very bad. I think McAfee or Norton might have an internet security demo, go to their site to check it out.

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It should, but the politicians havent done anything about it; its all about email spam (which BTW might soon be illegal )

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Thanks Maccers. Not that I'm bothered by the problem myself but this looks well worth trying. 
The alternative would be to use Opera for browsing instead of IE & forget about pop-ups for good. http://www.opera.com/

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Zone Alarm is excellent. I wouldn't go online without it.

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I've never seen a single pop-up while using Opera. It's reckoned to be the most secure browser available. http://www.opera.com/support/service/security/

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Andrew. There are freeware versions of all security software mentioned in this thread, including the Opera browser. Check out the links.
http://www.kolumbus.fi/eero.muhonen/FS/
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/
http://www.opera.com/

Zone Alarm might not fix your problem but it's well worth installing. IMHO

PS. I thought you use WinXP? I understand it has its own firewall  

Oops Sorry. I forgot the link.  http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/catalog/products/zonealarm/znalm_details.j...

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I do use WinXP, but to enable/disable the firewall, you have to disconnect and then re-connect. I also like to fly FS2002 online, and if I remember right, it works better if I disable the WinXP firewall.

Craig. First of all I'm glad you seem to have fixed the problem. I think some confusion arose from people misreading your original topic which sent the thread off track. Can you please confirm that "this site" referred to in this quote is the guitar tab site & NOT Simviation. Quote:


For the sake of Pete's sanity I'll try to clear this up once & for all. I've been visiting Simviation almost every day for longer than I care to think about, long before this forum existed. Despite my comments on Opera I prefer IE. It's quicker for me & I use it 99% of the time. I find pop-ups annoying in general but most are quite harmless. The pop-under Pete mentioned as used by Simviation is the least offensive type & never bothered me. I run no special security software while online apart from Zone Alarm & of course Norton Anti-Virus. I run Ad-aware or similar anti-spyware utility before I shut down.

Anyone who's visited a warez or porn site, either intentionally or by accident, will be familiar with the pop-ups Craig is talking about. These will multiply faster than you can shut them down. Clicking on one makes 2 more appear. Some display full screen with no obvious way to remove them. I'm not sure quite what triggers them or how they work. They're a darned nuisance but comparatively harmless. I'm sure they do no permanent damage to your system.

I think clearing your History & Temp Internet files +  running Ad-aware should remove the problem. Also check your Favourites list for links you didn't bookmark This is another "favourite" trick of the scoundrels who do this sort of thing.

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The problem with that free pop-up killer mentioned is that it is for IE only. I use netscape

I just found another pop-up killer that is free
http://www.panicware.com/index.html
nose around on the site, you'll find it

I assume you are refering to flightsim.com
I have noticed that it seems that the pop-up are heavier at differant times of the day. Kind of like TV commercials. the amount and type vary by the time of the day

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  8)

I have been off work for the past month due to a back injury so I have seen the commercials during the day. If you are watching any "Judge whoever", The Maury who's my daddy Povich Show", or the best "Jerry Springer" the commercials are mostly for Lawyers, and some kind of tech school. During Soap Opreas, its women prodects.

i still wish F1 had stayed with the BBC those ad breaks ruin F1, by any chance is it on a broadcast delay of say 5 mins or so, just incase they were to goto an ad break and something major happens, because it if was real time live your gonna miss out some pretty important points of the race, i havent been able to catch a race in full in a long time due to other commitments on a sunday so someone else may know this one

  I've been using a freeware pop-up blocker called stop-the-pop-up from http://sureshot.sureshot.xaviermedia.net/stopthepop/ for quite a while, this thing doesn't let anything through unless you hold your ctrl key, I recommend it.
  You can configure it a little, but for free you can't beat it.