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1BamaNita

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I use IE, and don't have (nor would I have AOL). We have McAfee for virus, and firewall. I believe the pop up blocker is part of the subscription, as well, but I'm not sure.

As I'm sitting here right now I have a message at the top of my screen that a pop up has been blocked and 2 tribalfusion addys in the toolbar at the bottom (they seem to be the worst offender). If I go back to the main topic listing, or otherwise cruise through the site, I will get more.
 
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I'm no expert, but it sounds like a spyware trigger.

It seems all the offended parties are using IE, which is very vulnerable.
There are a lot of ads on Tidefans, but I have been on all day with no popups blocked or unblocked. I use FireFox. However, alot of these ads contain links to third-party sites and could contain spyware triggers (also called spyware mines), which cause random popups. AdAware is only moderately able to remove these, and this is probably what you guys are infected with.

Second best advice: download Microsoft Anti-SpyWare (it's better at removing those) or learn to manually fix your registry. Almost all registry cleaning softwares don't do a good job at removing things from IE. And some of the free ones will actually write spyware into your registry. Stay away from porno sites and file sharing programs(Kazaa, etc), 80% of malware comes from these two sources.

Best advice: use FireFox, no one using firefox seems to have these problems.
 
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I have Win 98, Wal-Mart Connect, IE and no virus protection or firewall of any kind nor pop-up blocker.

I get the one tribalfusion pop-up once a day. Sometimes the tribalfusion won't load and just stops, locking up my computer and I have to turn it off and reboot. Then no problems.

Since I have no protection of any kind, I wouldn't think that would be a problem for other people.

NOTE: this is not my 'real' computer. It does not have a modem.....and I intend on keeping it that way. If I have no net access, then no one can get at my important stuff. So, that is my protection, the old-fashioned way.
 
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I used to get pop ups all the time on Tidefans. As of late, I've not seen one on Tidefans for months. I am rather enjoying some of the ads on Tidefans though. The "Punch Out George W. Bush" ad at the top has become a growing favorite of mine. LOL!
 
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No popups

Running windows xp home with the builtin popup blocker.
 
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TerryP

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Just for the hell of it I turned all my "pop-up blocker" software off this morning just to see what would happen.

I've been to three sites. This one, Tidesports.com and Bamamag.com (Scout.com site) I've had 3 pop-ups. One there from Tribalfusion (company that handles our banner ads, etc.) and 2 from Bamamag.com. You won't get them over on TI, because of the 36 bucks a month Rodney charges. I haven't been to BOL as of yet this morning but it wouldn't surprise me if I get some over there also.

Just a FWIW....
 
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Vertical said:
I use IE at work, and Firefox at home. I get absolutely HAMMERED with pop-ups both places, although FireFox does block most of them, and the google toolbar blocks most of them on IE at work.

In any event, I don't download any porn, I don't visit questionable sites, etc., etc. My machines are not shared.

This is the only site that it happens on. I can assure you, it's not my machine(s).
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There has to be something different. I use Firefox and Norton. I do not add redundant toolbars to my desktop. If our computers were the same, we should get the same pop-ups. Something on your computer is triggering the pop-ups.
 
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TerryP

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just that i have had AOL many moons ago and have also had a lot of acquaintances that have had it. they experienced this whole set of pop-ups that was through the aol messenger service crap. i just wondered if maybe that's what was happening to these good folks.
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Interesting. I do use messenger services occasionally but run everything through Trillian.
 
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wahpuh

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Bama63 said:
I seldom come here any more, because of the popup attacks.

Like the earlier posters, I don't have a popup problem anywhere else. I run Norton's (cleaned out the register last night) and a couple of ad/spy programs besides what comes with my Internet program.

I used to come every day and religiously click on a bunch of ads, trying to do my part. If I do that now, I regret it. It didn't used to be that way, here, some months ago.
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I use Firefox and never get popups here or anywhere else. There is also a popup blocker included in Service Pack 2 which should be installed on EVERY machine running XP. RTR

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TerryP said:
Just for the hell of it I turned all my "pop-up blocker" software off this morning just to see what would happen.

I've been to three sites. This one, Tidesports.com and Bamamag.com (Scout.com site) I've had 3 pop-ups. One there from Tribalfusion (company that handles our banner ads, etc.) and 2 from Bamamag.com. You won't get them over on TI, because of the 36 bucks a month Rodney charges. I haven't been to BOL as of yet this morning but it wouldn't surprise me if I get some over there also.

Just a FWIW....
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Damn, $36 per month? That is a little extreme. RTR

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bayoutider said:
There has to be something different. I use Firefox and Norton. I do not add redundant toolbars to my desktop. If our computers were the same, we should get the same pop-ups. Something on your computer is triggering the pop-ups.
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I clean spyware, adware, and viruses off of computers for a living. My home computer is as squeaky-clean-sterile as they come, it's behind a hardware and software firewall. I reformat my machine once every six months. This is not something I'm just wrong about. If you choose not to believe that, so be it.

I don't get hit with the popups every time, and like I said earlier, I hardly ever see the pop-ups (only on my work machine using IE do I see them), but I do see that I'm blocking them.

It may be better than it has been in the past, I can't say that I've been paying much attention, but I know that for a long time, I considered it a given that my pop-up blocker would go nuts whenever I hit this site. Maybe it's improved since then, I'll have to observe it for a couple days.
 
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Vertical said:
I clean spyware, adware, and viruses off of computers for a living. My home computer is as squeaky-clean-sterile as they come, it's behind a hardware and software firewall. I reformat my machine once every six months. This is not something I'm just wrong about. If you choose not to believe that, so be it.

I don't get hit with the popups every time, and like I said earlier, I hardly ever see the pop-ups (only on my work machine using IE do I see them), but I do see that I'm blocking them.

It may be better than it has been in the past, I can't say that I've been paying much attention, but I know that for a long time, I considered it a given that my pop-up blocker would go nuts whenever I hit this site. Maybe it's improved since then, I'll have to observe it for a couple days.
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Vertical, I have never suggested you were a computer illiterate only that we have very similar systems, firewalls, OS and virus protection. But logic tells me that if the two similar systems were having different problems the problem lies in that system somewhere or both systems would experience similar problems. I'm not nearly as diligent as you in cleaning my system and using Firefox a pop-up is a rarity rather than the norm and I can't remember the last pop-up I got on tidefans. There is something triggering pop-ups from the tidefans ads.

Even an electrician has the occasional burned out light bulb and a carpenter will occasionally bend a nail.
 
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