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Title: Very annoying Popup
Post by: joshnickerson on March 25, 2004, 04:20:53 AM
I've come across a very annoying pop-up these past few weeks, and it only shows up when I visit Planet Gamecube. It's a small pop up that asks "Do you want to Run IE Browser Enhancer?". I click Cancel but it just pops right back up and won't let me shuffle it to the background or operate any browser windows, and usually results in me having to go to the CTRL+ALT+DEL window and shut down ALL my browsers. It's really getting annoying, especially when I'm in the middle of an article. I'm pretty sure it's not my ISP because this is the only website it pops up on.
Title: RE: Very annoying Popup
Post by: vudu on March 25, 2004, 06:11:58 AM
i've never seen that one.
Title: RE: Very annoying Popup
Post by: KDR_11k on March 25, 2004, 09:17:59 AM
Get a browser with popup blocking (or, if that doesn't help, one that isn't IE )
Title: RE: Very annoying Popup
Post by: Bill Aurion on March 25, 2004, 10:05:47 AM
I smell a need for Mozilla...
Title: RE: Very annoying Popup
Post by: - NintendoFan - on March 25, 2004, 12:49:14 PM
It's funny becuase I have gotten that to and I use Firefox. Except the fact that when I click cancel it goes away. So, I would highly consider getting Firefox or Mozilla.
Title: RE: Very annoying Popup
Post by: Ian Sane on March 25, 2004, 01:26:34 PM
I wouldn't consider "get another browser" as a decent solution.  If Josh doesn't want to get a new browser just to browse the damn site he shouldn't have to.  I have never gotten this ad but I think the company that made it should fix it.  Though I guess posting here isn't really going to get them to do it.
Title: RE:Very annoying Popup
Post by: joshnickerson on March 25, 2004, 04:51:23 PM
Problem is, I don't know which freakin' company it is. I'm not about to press "OK" and get some stupid bandwidth sucking tracker in the computer I just reformated.
Title: RE:Very annoying Popup
Post by: Jonnyboy117 on March 25, 2004, 05:14:06 PM
I'm not familiar with this ad at all...if you could give us the name of it or the program it's trying to install, we might be able to track it down and make sure it's taken off the site.
Title: RE:Very annoying Popup
Post by: Fluke Worm on March 28, 2004, 02:47:05 PM
Yes I get this too and I DO have a pop-up blocker(google tool bar). I clicked on it and it's safe because an other pop-up comes up which resembles a more traditional download window which lists all the great features one can get. Unfortunately this probably means it's a legitimate ad and the continual pop-uping is an error.
Title: RE: Very annoying Popup
Post by: KDR_11k on March 28, 2004, 07:16:39 PM
Ian: I had to get another browser to access the NoE site, so where's the problem? You need neither root nor money for that.
Title: RE: Very annoying Popup
Post by: NinGurl69 *huggles on March 29, 2004, 10:53:06 PM
The banner this popup originates from situates horizontally at the upper-right corner of the site.  Moving your cursor over the banner (such as when trying to click the Close-window button) triggers the popup question.  Since I have a habit of quickly closing browser windows as soon as I see no interesting info, I ran into this popup a lot.


There's another horrible popup...  It runs the MS FTP (ftp.exe) system utility to download/install a program called "o" to my desktop.  It also plants a program called "INDFILEB.exe" into my startup queue, which my guess is for re-installing the program in case it's partially removed.  INDFILEB.exe can be found under Windows/System (win98se).  You may have to boot to DOS (hah! anyone remember that?) to delete it while Windows isn't running.
Title: RE: Very annoying Popup
Post by: KDR_11k on March 30, 2004, 01:56:13 AM
If someone removes the popup, please give us the address of the agency that issued it. I always wanted to rip out the hearts of some of those spyware makers.
Title: RE:Very annoying Popup
Post by: Fluke Worm on April 04, 2004, 12:30:42 PM
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Originally posted by: KDR_11k
If someone removes the popup, please give us the address of the agency that issued it. I always wanted to rip out the hearts of some of those spyware makers.

?Is this the Info. you wanted?
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Do you want to install and run "IE PLUGIN | Browser Plugin, Lycos, 180Search, Bargain Buddy and ClipGenie add-on" < http:// www. ieplugin.com/termsbargain.html

Publisher authenticity verified by Thawte Server CA

Caution: IE PLUGIN LTD asserts that this content is safe.


Certificate Information

Issued to: IE PLUGIN LTD
Issued by: Thawte Server CA

"Issuer"(from certificate)
E = server-certs@thawte.com
CN = Thawte Server CA
OU = Certification Services Division
O = Thawte Consulting cc
L = Cape Town
S = Western Cape
C = ZA

Sorry I didn't post this earlier but naturally when I actually wanted to see the ad it's nowhere to be found.

Title: RE: Very annoying Popup
Post by: KDR_11k on April 04, 2004, 08:52:11 PM
Hm, still no mail address...