Yay! Popups that Ask Me to Download Stuff!

[Alexander's Horse]

I took one of those work from home opportunities and now I have a ranch in Colorado, a yacht and a condo in Florida

Thanks Apolyton

[H Tower]

Originally posted by The Pioneer
If you use a pop up stopper doesn't that prevent Poly from getting it money for their advertisement?

So long...

that's why you use a pop up killer

[MarkG]

If you use a pop up stopper doesn't that prevent Poly from getting it money for their advertisement?

yes you do

With the money Markos makes from his merchandising? Heck no!

the store makes up for only a small part of our revenue

unfortunately pop-ups are the opposite...

i'll try to tack down the source

[The Pioneer]

Thanks Marko!

[MarkG]

it would help me a lot if someone gets it next time, to check on the history of that window(the "down" button on the back bar choice)

[Hercules]

Is that nasty paypopup.com a legit Apolyton thing or an invader. It's a massive nuisance and I thought it had been got rid off yesterday?

[MarkG]

Is that nasty paypopup.com a legit Apolyton thing or an invader. It's a massive nuisance

it's legit. how exactly is it a nuisanse? do you get it constantly?

[Hercules]

Yes every time I change thread here at Aolyton. It pops up 4 fold. (I have my browser on 'warn me about cookies'). Even when I click cancel it doesn't seem to stop it 50% of the time from pop that casino wheel. And two days ago it tried to download something.

This wasn't here last week Is It new?

[MarkG]

if you dont accept cookies it wont stop bothering you

it use cookies so that it's not shown all the times

[Harovan]

I tried to run into the dialer popup and frequently visited its favorite places (news and PMs), but didn't get it. It seems to have stopped. Still yesterday it annoyed the hell out of me, but today not one appearance.

If I see it again, I will post a screenie of the history window.

[The Pioneer]

Marko,

I just had another one. It was in the classic games forum and as I started to type a new post something wild happened. The computer screen rolled down after the first few letters and it did not register anymore of my typing. I had another window open at another site dict.leo.org (a german/english dictionary) and MS Outlook. On the back button the screen had the following (from the top): Pop-Under Advertisng, Paypop.com _Advertising_Loading_Window. It again asked me to download and to install software. It also warned after I pressed cancel that I have to press og in order to install the software correctly!!!

So long...

PS: I have a screen shot with the back button history. I can email that to you if you need it!

[Rasbelin]

I just tried surfing Poly with Opera and any external links to pages using the go.php linking system caused me at least one pop-up window per link and most of them were gambling related.

I re-constructed the pop-ups by surfing to Poly with MSIE and I immidiately got 2 pop-up ads. The window redirects to http://pops.freeze.com/santa/wshp5/i...f=freezegopop6.

In the end it adverts in a Macromedia Flash animation a free and innocent looking Christmas screensaver titled Free Santa's Workshop Screen Saver. Nice screensaver, but as I tested it and scanned for spyware with Ad-Aware, I noticed that unless you uncheck all boxes in the installation program, you will receive heaps of pure spam.

When I returned back to the MSIE window again, I got a pop-up from http://66.227.36.231/sendout2xa.93.php that opened a special window called "Ad-viewer"

I also found the casino pop-up that seems to start downloading an installer for the casino software.

http://216.12.219.48/~admin1/adserving/rd350.php

However I didn't get anything, even if I clicked on the links with MSIE, unless you mean those 3-4 other casino pop-ups you get by doing that.

Anyway, those pop-ups screwed up my MSIE settings by locking the toolbars and enabling "Personalized Favorites Menu."

Hilarious statement from one of the pop-ups...

"We do not provide any free or not commercial services."

[Harovan]

Gotcha. Although others beat me with the facts, at least I have a nice pic of the villain .

[MarkG]

thanks Pioneer, ralph. i've contacted the service on the issue. they are supposed to offer the ability to no show some categories of ads(although i'm not sure where a dialer ad would probably be in)

[Rasbelin]

BTW, I just discovered one nice thing. As those pop-up ads are using the Macromedia Flash plug-in, it seems to be that the Flash animation includes some code that seems to start a file download with some browsers, I just noticed that you can apparently at least forbid the plug-in from storing files on your hard drive from "doubleclick.net" (yes, it's an ad running on DoubleClick's advertising network and it stores a cookie that Ad-Aware has listed as spyware). Instructions:

1. Right click on the animation and choose Settings from the menu.
2. Go to the tab marked with a folder icon.
3. Set the amount of data to none and tick the "Never" box.

Just some nice little gimmick. Doesn't necessarily help at all, but at least you don't have to store those animations in your browser's cache memory.