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sr71000 · February 14th, 2007, 10:23 AM

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 · February 14th, 2007, 10:26 AM

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

sr71000 · February 14th, 2007, 10:34 AM

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 · February 14th, 2007, 10:39 AM

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

samwichse · February 14th, 2007, 10:53 AM

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** · February 14th, 2007, 11:12 AM

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

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GiPilot12 · February 14th, 2007, 11:16 AM

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

samwichse · February 14th, 2007, 11:34 AM

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 · February 14th, 2007, 11:36 AM

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

sr71000 · February 14th, 2007, 12:05 PM

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