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February 13th, 2006, 12:17 PM
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centauri, did you think for a second that maybe it wasn't real, and maybe that all of the personal information you were entering was going to be sold to about a thousand advertising companies and distributed all over the web? | 
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February 13th, 2006, 01:08 PM
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Are you sure that the ad actually came from tnawrestling.com? TNA is a legit business with a strong online presence among wrestling fans.
It could be your system is infected with spyware or adware. Have you scanned your computer with Adaware, Spybot S&D, Microsoft AntiSpyware, or similar freeware security utility? | 
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February 13th, 2006, 05:36 PM
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These things are aimed primarily at inexperienced users and kids.
Its sickening that there are people out there that use these things as bait.
Theres a section on spyware at www.howstuffworks.com that I print out and give to all of my customers when they buy a computer from me. Most read it, but it would seem that others do exactly what it says not to do  Silly prats, theres just no helping some ppl. http://computer.howstuffworks.com/spyware.htm | |
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February 13th, 2006, 05:37 PM
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Yeah they are bunk I win at least 10 IPODS a day but I never received one yet.
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February 13th, 2006, 05:38 PM
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Let me guess, you use Internet Explorer  | |
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February 13th, 2006, 05:39 PM
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Originally Posted by zybch Let me guess, you use Internet Explorer | me? Nope I am updated with firefox I just click on the silly shoot me things on ebaums etc some times when bored. actually ebaums has one that auto pops up in FF now and a few other sites I goto.
Unfortunatley the more popular it gets in use the more of this will start to happen on a larger scale.
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February 13th, 2006, 05:42 PM
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Yup.
Since I've been using firefox I haven't had a single popup or advertisment (adblock) getting in my way
So whenever I use IE at a client's place I get my weekly dose of advertising crud in about 5 minutes. | |
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February 13th, 2006, 11:38 PM
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so wait, you never answered the question....did you put your "personal" information on there? or just your email address? | |
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