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Terrell Miller - 16 Feb 2005 01:33 GMT

got another pop-up today. It's starting again :(

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Pat Flannery - 16 Feb 2005 03:25 GMT

> got another pop-up today. It's starting again :(

I note that the ones on Rusty Barton's missile history webpages have
changed form in the past few days.

Pat

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Herb Schaltegger - 16 Feb 2005 12:52 GMT

> > got another pop-up today. It's starting again :(
>
> I note that the ones on Rusty Barton's missile history webpages have
> changed form in the past few days.
>
> Pat

They still haven't infested Safari for the Mac yet.

Someone on a web forum I frequent said there's an insidious new
spyware thing going on for Windows where you install some ordinary
software and you get a .dll installed along with it called vserve.dll
which allows all sorts of advertising crap. Apparently the creators
of vserve.dll paid enough cash to some software vendors to get them to
piggyback installation of this gem along with their own software.

Anyway, if you're having a lot of popups in Windows despite the
presence of popup blockers, do a search for this file and rename it or
delete it, then reboot and see if it helps.

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Rhonda Lea Kirk - 16 Feb 2005 15:34 GMT

Terrell Miller wrote:

> got another pop-up today. It's starting again :(

If AdAware and Spybot haven't solved the problem (you
did look at those links I sent you, right?), try this:

www.hijackthis.de

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Pat Flannery - 16 Feb 2005 16:29 GMT

>Anyway, if you're having a lot of popups in Windows despite the
>presence of popup blockers, do a search for this file and rename it or
>delete it, then reboot and see if it helps.
>

Thank's, I'll take a crack at that.

Pat

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Ed Kyle - 16 Feb 2005 15:48 GMT

That's because Geocities has recently changed the way its frame ads
appear - to make them more persistent. My Mozilla still blocks the
popups, but Geocities also embeds sponsored ads in a frame that is
added to the HTML code. It is icky, but it is also free webspace.
I'll endure the ads any day if that is what I have to do to see Rusty's
material.

- Ed Kyle

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Pat Flannery - 16 Feb 2005 17:05 GMT

> My Mozilla still blocks the
>popups, but Geocities also embeds sponsored ads in a frame that is
>added to the HTML code. It is icky, but it is also free webspace.
>I'll endure the ads any day if that is what I have to do to see Rusty's
>material.
>

Yeah, Rusty's missile sites are great.

Pat

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