Great plan

[drake]

Bombard users with popups, spam and spyware and then make them to pay to get rid of it. Brilliant.

I havent been here at poly for awhile, just checked in to see how it was going. Sad to see what it's become. Bye then.

[MarkG]

popups ok(i disagree on the word "bombard") but

spam?

spyware?!?

[MarkG]

Originally posted by MarkG
popups ok(i disagree on the word "bombard")

just looked at our numbers. our daily popups/unique visitors ratio is at around 0.7.....

if that's called bombarding.....

[Nubclear]

Bye Drake!

[GhengisFarbâ„¢]

Well, MarkG is in the artillery so he should know a thing or two about bombardment.

[DrSpike]

Has the level of popups gone down since the subscription started? It was getting pretty annoying for me also I admit. Still, subscribe and all your ills will fade away.

[Nubclear]

Originally posted by GhengisFarb
Well, MarkG is in the artillery so he should know a thing or two about bombardment.

The Greek military has discovered artillery?

[Sava]

Poly isn't bad with popups.

Spyware? The main Apolyton.net site actually has a browser parasite detector!

Poly

[Bloody Monk]

So now we see what it means to be from Maine.


Seeya.

Monk

[Theben]

The spam is self-generated.

[Frankychan]

A couple times, a popup window jumps up and it asks me if I want to download 'Gator'.

Also, a couple times when I've ran Spybot S&D, it's brought up the 'Gator' stuff as well....despite me only visiting Apolyton. You might want to keep an eye on the popup ads. Could they be trying to install spyware?

[DanQ]

Originally posted by Frankychan
A couple times, a popup window jumps up and it asks me if I want to download 'Gator'.

Also, a couple times when I've ran Spybot S&D, it's brought up the 'Gator' stuff as well....despite me only visiting Apolyton. You might want to keep an eye on the popup ads. Could they be trying to install spyware?

Frankychan:

While the pop-up may very well have been delivered to you by a third party contracted with one of the advertising agencies Apolyton is affiliated with, it is not enough information for us to verify and investigate further. Do you recall what ad if any otherwise appeared and/or if any advertising link was present in an ad space? The next time this happens please take a screenshot before you respond to the pop-up and make note of the link it points to if any.

As for the SpyBot check, even if you are only visiting this site at the present and in recent times you could have been infected or are being reinfected by another site, email or process. I would be especially weary of this if the program detects Gator even after you deny a request for its installation just prior to the check that identifies components of it on your computer.

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Dan; Apolyton CS

P.S. If you do not yet run Ad-Adaware in conjunction with SB I highly recommend doing so whenever you feel the need to do so, whatever the circumstance.

[Frankychan]

Ok,

I don't remember which ad it was when I got the Gator pop-ups, but I'll be sure to take a screenie of it.

As for the Spybot issue, I clear out my history, internet files, and cookies every so often, and it's THEN that I got the Gator 'goodie'.

But I'll do what you said and try running Ad-Aware together w/Spybot S&D.

Thanks for your help, DanQ

[Dis]

don't let the door hit your ___ on the way out.

I don't get any popups or spam. I must be doing something right.

[Eli]

I'm getting the damn Smiley Channel or whatever popup everytime I open a new poly page.