OT-Killing Pop-ups as a webmaster

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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Well, something worked. Within an hour I had acquired a "pop-up" ad
that now shows up every time I open my website. (I assume you ALL
see this, right?) It appears to be "keying" on the "hotels" meta tag?
(See it -- and hopefully our site -- at www.AlexisParkInn.com )

No, Jay, I think you need to disable your Gator. FWIW, I don't get any
pop-ups when viewing your site.

Gator is a spyware app that will display pop-up ads based on the content
you're viewing. It's insidious stuff and needs to be killed as quickly as
possible, in my not so humble opinion. It's not the only one of its kind,
but it is one of the most prevalent.

Here's a site with links to a few spyware removal tools:
http://www.spyware-removal-tools.com/

--
John T
http://tknowlogy.com/tknoFlyer
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No, Jay, I think you need to disable your Gator. FWIW, I don't get
any
pop-ups when viewing your site.

Well, it seems that some adware was actually disabling Internet Explorer.
When it crashed (right after bringing up the stupid pop-up ad), Microsoft
sent me to the Pest Patrol website.

I downloaded their software, and it found 49 examples of adware and spyware
on my computer! I deleted them all, and we'll see if things stabilize. The
pop-up ad that was appearing when I opened my website is gone, at least.

Sorry for the false alarm -- the problem was obviously on the "user" end.

Thanks anyway!
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Well, it seems that some adware was actually disabling Internet Explorer.
When it crashed (right after bringing up the stupid pop-up ad), Microsoft
sent me to the Pest Patrol website.
I downloaded their software, and it found 49 examples of adware and spyware
on my computer! I deleted them all, and we'll see if things stabilize. The
pop-up ad that was appearing when I opened my website is gone, at least.

Now, can someone tell me how to disable whatever it is that wants to
load Microsoft Internet Explorer when I click on a URL? I don't want
Internet Explorer on my machines.

what do you want on your machine?
nutscrape ?
just tell nutscrape to be the default browser in its preferences.

john smith wrote:

Well, it seems that some adware was actually disabling Internet Explorer.
When it crashed (right after bringing up the stupid pop-up ad), Microsoft
sent me to the Pest Patrol website.
I downloaded their software, and it found 49 examples of adware and spyware
on my computer! I deleted them all, and we'll see if things stabilize. The
pop-up ad that was appearing when I opened my website is gone, at least.

Now, can someone tell me how to disable whatever it is that wants to
load Microsoft Internet Explorer when I click on a URL? I don't want
Internet Explorer on my machines.

In article , Jeff wrote:

what do you want on your machine?
nutscrape ?
just tell nutscrape to be the default browser in its preferences.

That and Mozilla. Some URL's still attempt to load IE before I stop it.

On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 04:18:30 GMT, john smith wrote:

Now, can someone tell me how to disable whatever it is that wants to
load Microsoft Internet Explorer when I click on a URL? I don't want
Internet Explorer on my machines.

check http://www.litepc.com/
- http://www.litepc.com/ieradicator.html

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On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 03:14:25 GMT, Jay Honeck wrote:

Sorry for the false alarm -- the problem was obviously on the "user" end.

http://lavasoft.element5.com/support/download/
is also a good (and free) removal tool.

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