Adware??? on CP???
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Hey, I was on the main page and clicked on the link for the thread below and my Adware/Spyware blocker said that it had blocked the download of "Avenue A"... Surely not!!? :omg: :wtf: :omg: :wtf: :~ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Shaun Austin: .NET Specialist. Spreading the word of .NET to the world... well the UK... well my tiny corner of it!! :-D
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Hey, I was on the main page and clicked on the link for the thread below and my Adware/Spyware blocker said that it had blocked the download of "Avenue A"... Surely not!!? :omg: :wtf: :omg: :wtf: :~ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Shaun Austin: .NET Specialist. Spreading the word of .NET to the world... well the UK... well my tiny corner of it!! :-D
Sometimes I really don't understand people that install Kazaa and other spyware-ridden software become shocked when they see aggressive ads on several sites. ("Hey, CNN.com is trying to send me a trojan!") Perl combines all the worst aspects of C and Lisp: a billion different sublanguages in one monolithic executable. It combines the power of C with the readability of PostScript. -- Jamie Zawinski
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Sometimes I really don't understand people that install Kazaa and other spyware-ridden software become shocked when they see aggressive ads on several sites. ("Hey, CNN.com is trying to send me a trojan!") Perl combines all the worst aspects of C and Lisp: a billion different sublanguages in one monolithic executable. It combines the power of C with the readability of PostScript. -- Jamie Zawinski
For your information I don't have anything on this machine other than VS.NET, Norton AV, ZoneAlarm and office! Certainly not Kazaa. Avenue.A from what I understand is fairly harmless and is an agency used by many large media-type sites (I can't go to a story on the Daily Telegraph's site without the thing popping up.) Maybe you should give people a bit more credit in future before jumping down their throats for making an innocent observation. :| ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Shaun Austin: .NET Specialist. Spreading the word of .NET to the world... well the UK... well my tiny corner of it!! :-D
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Sometimes I really don't understand people that install Kazaa and other spyware-ridden software become shocked when they see aggressive ads on several sites. ("Hey, CNN.com is trying to send me a trojan!") Perl combines all the worst aspects of C and Lisp: a billion different sublanguages in one monolithic executable. It combines the power of C with the readability of PostScript. -- Jamie Zawinski
Agreed. Not in this person's case, it would seem, but in general, for sure. Just as every budding teenager gets the talk of the "birds and the bees" at some point in time, so should we in general be sitting down first-time internet users and spelling out the way things are. I tried this with my sister, brother-in-law, and my mother at different points, with varying results. - Jason (SonorkID 100.611) The Code Project - Orange makes the art grow fonder
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Agreed. Not in this person's case, it would seem, but in general, for sure. Just as every budding teenager gets the talk of the "birds and the bees" at some point in time, so should we in general be sitting down first-time internet users and spelling out the way things are. I tried this with my sister, brother-in-law, and my mother at different points, with varying results. - Jason (SonorkID 100.611) The Code Project - Orange makes the art grow fonder
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Agreed. Not in this person's case, it would seem, but in general, for sure. Just as every budding teenager gets the talk of the "birds and the bees" at some point in time, so should we in general be sitting down first-time internet users and spelling out the way things are. I tried this with my sister, brother-in-law, and my mother at different points, with varying results. - Jason (SonorkID 100.611) The Code Project - Orange makes the art grow fonder
:-DAgree completely... I recently did a bit of "servicing" of some PCs belonging to friends of my wife's. The worse offender was riddled with viruses and enough "free" utilities that the system tray area was almost half way across the screen (Win98)... ...the best bit though was that they had gone for 6 months clicking OK on a message box on bootup and eventually it just became part of the "starting the computer" routine... the message???... "[keyloggername].patch.reg could not be applied to the registry. The file may be corrupted or...." (can't remember exactly but you get the gist???.. Sat them down and had a ___Long___ chat! :-D ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Shaun Austin: .NET Specialist. Spreading the word of .NET to the world... well the UK... well my tiny corner of it!! :-D
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Plugins to IE they don't remember "installing", about 60% of the browser window real estate left over after all the plugins have had their way with a new IE window; unused icons all over the desktop they don't remember putting there; about half a dozen "suspicious" values in the CurrentVersion\Run's which, when deleted via RegEdit, ceased to add minutes to Windows booting time; and, of course, a field day for AdAware. - Jason (SonorkID 100.611) The Code Project - Orange makes the art grow fonder
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Hey, I was on the main page and clicked on the link for the thread below and my Adware/Spyware blocker said that it had blocked the download of "Avenue A"... Surely not!!? :omg: :wtf: :omg: :wtf: :~ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Shaun Austin: .NET Specialist. Spreading the word of .NET to the world... well the UK... well my tiny corner of it!! :-D
shaunAustin wrote: Hey, I was on the main page and clicked on the link for the thread below and my Adware/Spyware blocker said that it had blocked the download of "Avenue A"... There do seem to be a couple of ads that are hosted off server. By the virtue of my hosts file these are all redirected to 127.0.0.1. I don't believe the CP team would have anything to do with this kind of stuff, but of course they won't have a lot of control of ads that are hosted off-site. Might be worth sending an email to webmaster@codeproject.com - just to make sure they are aware. Michael But you know when the truth is told, That you can get what you want or you can just get old, Your're going to kick off before you even get halfway through. When will you realise... Vienna waits for you? - "The Stranger," Billy Joel
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shaunAustin wrote: Hey, I was on the main page and clicked on the link for the thread below and my Adware/Spyware blocker said that it had blocked the download of "Avenue A"... There do seem to be a couple of ads that are hosted off server. By the virtue of my hosts file these are all redirected to 127.0.0.1. I don't believe the CP team would have anything to do with this kind of stuff, but of course they won't have a lot of control of ads that are hosted off-site. Might be worth sending an email to webmaster@codeproject.com - just to make sure they are aware. Michael But you know when the truth is told, That you can get what you want or you can just get old, Your're going to kick off before you even get halfway through. When will you realise... Vienna waits for you? - "The Stranger," Billy Joel
That was my thoughts too... Thanks.. Shaun ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Shaun Austin: .NET Specialist. Spreading the word of .NET to the world... well the UK... well my tiny corner of it!! :-D
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Hey, I was on the main page and clicked on the link for the thread below and my Adware/Spyware blocker said that it had blocked the download of "Avenue A"... Surely not!!? :omg: :wtf: :omg: :wtf: :~ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Shaun Austin: .NET Specialist. Spreading the word of .NET to the world... well the UK... well my tiny corner of it!! :-D
Someone has brought this up before and Chris said he wouldn't put anything like that on CP. Are you the only one that uses your PC? There are hundreds of different malware and crapware on the net these days that unexperienced websurfers install without even knowing. If I were you I would run an updated Adware in safemode (assuming a windows os) or something. Later, JoeSox "When in doubt, tell the truth. It will confound your enemies and astound your friends." -- Mark Twain joeswammi.com ↔ humanaiproject.org ↔ joeswammi.com/sinfest
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Someone has brought this up before and Chris said he wouldn't put anything like that on CP. Are you the only one that uses your PC? There are hundreds of different malware and crapware on the net these days that unexperienced websurfers install without even knowing. If I were you I would run an updated Adware in safemode (assuming a windows os) or something. Later, JoeSox "When in doubt, tell the truth. It will confound your enemies and astound your friends." -- Mark Twain joeswammi.com ↔ humanaiproject.org ↔ joeswammi.com/sinfest
I brought it up it was an ad for a cybersex chat site or w/e something to that extent. Who ever did it was using javascript and did a image src change through javascript, thats why js is banned from the forums on CP. -Steven Hicks
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Hey, I was on the main page and clicked on the link for the thread below and my Adware/Spyware blocker said that it had blocked the download of "Avenue A"... Surely not!!? :omg: :wtf: :omg: :wtf: :~ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Shaun Austin: .NET Specialist. Spreading the word of .NET to the world... well the UK... well my tiny corner of it!! :-D
I've been seeing this as well for around the past week.:( Definitely no Kazaa or any crap like that on any pc's here. Neville Franks, Author of ED for Windows www.getsoft.com and coming soon: Surfulater www.surfulater.com
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:-DAgree completely... I recently did a bit of "servicing" of some PCs belonging to friends of my wife's. The worse offender was riddled with viruses and enough "free" utilities that the system tray area was almost half way across the screen (Win98)... ...the best bit though was that they had gone for 6 months clicking OK on a message box on bootup and eventually it just became part of the "starting the computer" routine... the message???... "[keyloggername].patch.reg could not be applied to the registry. The file may be corrupted or...." (can't remember exactly but you get the gist???.. Sat them down and had a ___Long___ chat! :-D ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Shaun Austin: .NET Specialist. Spreading the word of .NET to the world... well the UK... well my tiny corner of it!! :-D
shaunAustin wrote: Sat them down and had a ___Long___ chat! I know these people. (well ones like them) Even after a long chat it doesn't help, you should just use a sledgehammer on there box. Regardz Colin J Davies
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I've been seeing this as well for around the past week.:( Definitely no Kazaa or any crap like that on any pc's here. Neville Franks, Author of ED for Windows www.getsoft.com and coming soon: Surfulater www.surfulater.com
Thank's for that... I was beginning to wonder if it was just me... (I'm reigning back in the paranoia as I type!!) :-D ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Shaun Austin: .NET Specialist. Spreading the word of .NET to the world... well the UK... well my tiny corner of it!! :-D