techimo popups

[sr71000]

Hey guys..i was just browsing techimo when i got a popup ad. Anyone else been getting popups from techimo? God i hope we haven't started w/ popups!

[diode]

Malware maybe ? I've never had any pop-ups on FF2.

[sr71000]

using ff2. Don't think it's malware as i haven't seen any popups anywhere else.... idk...the ads have been getting more and more obtrusive. I hate the one at the top now for adobe where u mouse over it by accident and it expands and covers the first few posts....ugh. I doubt scott/rob/the powers that be purposely added a popup but these ad companies are getting more and more daring.....

[diode]

I'd run spy-bot and the usual progs just to be sure. Adblock and adblock filterset g. updater work for me.

[samwichse]

I leave ads alone unless they don't leave me alone (animations, mouseovers, popups, SOUNDS).

If they don't, I right-click and block the server (opera). Their mistake. Every popup I get, I block the image server as well. I only get about 2 popups a week, and they're always BLANK.

I think we customers have made ourselves very clear about popups, if they want to continue to try and shove them down our throats, they can choke on it themselves.

Sam

[RobRich]

As most everyone should already know, we do not knowingly use popup advertisments at TechIMO. That is not to say a few advertisers have not tried to sneak them by us in the past, but we take such advertising concerns quite seriously. I will drop Scott a line so he can look into the issue.

Robert Richmond

Edit: Thread moved to suggestion box.

[GiPilot12]

I honestly think it may be a virus or some spyware. When I had that stuff, I got popups all the time.

[samwichse]

Agreed. Scott has more sense than to knowingly put popups on Techimo. I use a popup blocker, but if it circumvented the blocker in Firefox, it'd probably do the same for mine. And I'm popup free.

Sam

[wiggerbeater]

I rarely ever get popups anymore. Not on this site either.

[sr71000]

i don't really browse around too much on my laptop and haven't had any unexpected popups in probably months. There are some sites that give the popups but that's to be expected. I can't think of any at the moment, but there are some. The reason i don't think it's adware is because i haven't had another popup since. As rob said..i KNOW they'd never purposely allow popups but these damn ad companies are getting a bit ballsy so i figured i'd see what's up! who knows....maybe i do have an infection. If i get another popup i'll check that out...but like i said...i don't know of any adware that gives just 1 popup and that's it... lol

[Lord_Infamous]

i get the same popup

[njolakoski]

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y11...Screenshot.png

Another popup there

[mrniceguy]

I've noticed every once in a while IE7 asking if I wanted to let timo run a windows media app, other than that no popups.

[Epyon9283]

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y11...Screenshot.png

Another popup there

Thats not a pop-up. Its a bug with flash on Linux. If you have a flash ad that expands to cover more of the page if you mouse over it or whatever, you'll see a big grey area where it will expand to.

[njolakoski]

Ahh didnt know

[FalcomPSX]

www.admuncher.com

makes your computer popup / ad proof!

[surreal]

As most everyone should already know, we do not knowingly use popup advertisments at TechIMO. That is not to say a few advertisers have not tried to sneak them by us in the past, but we take such advertising concerns quite seriously. I will drop Scott a line so he can look into the issue.

Robert Richmond

Edit: Thread moved to suggestion box.

Robert I just got one too, if I get another one I'll do a screen shot for you, because it didn't come back when I went back to the page. It was also part of the add above the reply box. It was asking me to take a poll regarding the info in the add box, when I was sending a private message.

Looks like this just started today...btw I think I know a pop up from a hole in the ground,

Whoops maybe not.. I should have looked at sr71000's attachment, that's the pop up I got.

[mrniceguy]

[surreal]

maybe not, it was under my browser window..


There ya go, there's the website, now you know where it's from.

[The Merg]

I'm using IE7 with Pop-Up blocker turned on and I've had IE prompt me a couple of times the last few days about pop-ups being blocked on TechIMO. Never had a problem before...

- Merg