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I was going to some of my favorite places on the web today when sudenly the screen turned solid blue & a windows message popped up saying Mydoom was detected on my computer.
It wanted me to scan & remove the virus, of course I hit cancel & it finally went off.
Behind it was a advertisement for a company wanting to scan your computer... I ran my own scans & i had no mydoom or anything else
point is I would have possiably thought abought buying their product but now NO WAY
Am I the only one getting this crap.....
I do run a blocker to block popups but enternet explorer gets around it :evil:
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i hate fullscreen ads. sometimes there are ways to get past popup blockers... and sometimes they arn't even popups!
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A common, newbie-to-the-computer trick is to pop up ads on the internet, that look exactly like Windows themselves. So it says "alert alert!!! Your clock is wrong! Click Okay to fix it!", and then the newbie clicks...
I want to murder those ad companies.
f only life let you press CTRL-Z.
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why would your computer know you clock is wrong and not fix it itself?
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ALT + F4 is the shortcut to closing the current window.
Learn this technique well, and you will be invincible to any breed of popup ads, (besides those funky ones that hover over the page using flash... blech)
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install the google toolbar. It has never let 1 pop up past since i've had it. (Of course, if you want to allow them, like you would here for pm notification you can allow it also). And it has other great features, like being able to search from the toolbar and learn the page rank on sites.
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... or even better, get mozilla firefox and don't bother using IE again
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Or just download accelerator.
http://www.freedownloadsaccelerator.com/help.html
If you are using IE this is a must, I don't know if it works on other browsers as well.
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When the advanced features of the Google toolbar are active, it's a nifty little piece of spyware. Fortunately, unlike most spyware apps, it doesn't collect any kind of data that can be used against you, and it's the only piece of spyware that I personally allow on my systems.
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Quote:When the advanced features of the Google toolbar are active, it's a nifty little piece of spyware. Fortunately, unlike most spyware apps, it doesn't collect any kind of data that can be used against you, and it's the only piece of spyware that I personally allow on my systems.
but if you are still afraid, you can stop that...it even tells you what is going on for whatever you choose.
