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Dauphin
July 7, 2004, 15:06
Ok clicked on a link in a thread, got this message pop up:
Kuciwalker
July 7, 2004, 15:07
It charges in pounds? :lol:
Dauphin
July 7, 2004, 15:07
And a cookie request that I declined:
Dauphin
July 7, 2004, 15:19
Ok this is annoying. Any external links I click on give me this crap and its one of those annoying recurring pop ups that won't take 'no' for an answer.
dunk
July 7, 2004, 15:20
What thread? You should PM the person who posted it and possibly MarkG. Perhaps it was intentional... or some mistake.
Dauphin
July 7, 2004, 15:22
I first noticed it on a thread that I made, and its a link to a BBC webpage. ;)

Now I notice its on any external link from Poly - i.e its coming from the redirect screens you get after clicking an external link.
MarkG
July 7, 2004, 17:19
let me know if you get it again
-Jrabbit
July 7, 2004, 17:37
:scared: Scary stuff. :scared:
Haven't seen them... don't want to...
Dauphin
July 7, 2004, 17:46
The pop-ups are gone. Thanx. Will let you know if they reappear.
Robert Plomp
July 8, 2004, 02:01
Clicking links might get you in all kinds of ackward situations. It all depends on what links you click ;)
Urban Ranger
July 8, 2004, 05:37
Use Firefox
Dauphin
July 8, 2004, 06:31
I thought Markos didn't like people using pop up filters, such as the automatic filters in Firefox. :cute:
Robert Plomp
July 8, 2004, 07:31
Since when do we care what Markos likes?
Alex
July 8, 2004, 11:58
Use Opera.



:)
Chilean President™
July 8, 2004, 13:00
I'm having the same problem that Dauphin since a few days ago, but it happens only once (just when I click in the first thread when I log in).

It's a Weather stuff installer. I'm pretty sure that someday I'll click "yes" by mistake :scared:
Alex
July 8, 2004, 13:58
Opera (http://www.opera.com)

Firefox (http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/)
Dauphin
July 8, 2004, 16:19
Originally posted by CyberShy
Since when do we care what Markos likes?

Because if you are uberniceandthoughtful to him he may give you privileges like a bigger avatar wihtout having to pay +plus. :cute:
Alex
July 8, 2004, 16:51
Originally posted by Dauphin


Because if you are uberniceandthoughtful to him he may give you privileges like a bigger avatar wihtout having to pay +plus. :cute:

really? would our great leader, light of our lives, master of all intelligence and supreme lord of the earth, would he be so kind? :D

markos! markos! markos! hurrah! :)
Mercator
July 8, 2004, 17:14
Originally posted by Dauphin
I thought Markos didn't like people using pop up filters, such as the automatic filters in Firefox. :cute:

Firefox allows you to exempt sites from the pop-up blocker.
axi
July 8, 2004, 17:37
Hey, something's fishy here!

I started getting powerdialler today which spybot S&D cleans each time, but it somehow reappears. IIRC, I was browsing Apolyton when I got it first, but I can't remember if I was browsing anything else as well. I may be wrong about this, but still....

Btw, does anybody know anything about this sort of dialer? It managed to connect twice, before I got to unplug my phone line.
Dauphin
July 8, 2004, 17:41
Firefox allows you to exempt sites from the pop-up blocker.

ah, yes, under options web features. Given that information I can now admit to using Firefox.
Urban Ranger
July 12, 2004, 07:01
Originally posted by Dauphin
I thought Markos didn't like people using pop up filters, such as the automatic filters in Firefox. :cute:

You can selectly disable popup blocking in Firefox. The great thing is since it doesn't know ActiveX ( :vomit: ), any scripts that want to install stuff on your Wintel box are ignored.