Strange Popups

[napoleon526]

No, they aren't herpes-related, but it is strange. Take a look at this screenshot. I took it when browsing the "Paintball Thread." Notice that a popup has appeared offering to sell me paintball equipment.

http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads4/paintball.JPG

The same thing happened in the "Getting my girlfriend to stop smoking" thread. Up comes an ad wanting to sell me nicotene gum.

http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads4/stopsmoking.JPG

Has this happened to anyone else? Do I have some sort of spyware on my computer?

 

[Cimbri]

Originally posted by napoleon526
Has this happened to anyone else? Do I have some sort of spyware on my computer?

No. I have never seen anything like it

That must be spy-ware Shocking development…

 

[cgannon64]

That's some damn smart spyware if it coordinates the popups with what you're reading...

 

[WillJ]

Yeah, I've been noticing that some "web-popular" words (used cars, nicotine, herpes ) are automatically underlined (in yellow, BTW), and when you click them, they give you that stuff. Does anyone know what that is? Although I guess you might be getting something else.

 

[napoleon526]

Anyone know how I can search for and get rid of this spyware? I have McAfee Security but that only protects against viruses.

 

[Cimbri]

I get a lot of Spam mail sent to me One of them said something about a spy-ware detector. Try searching Google. (I deleted the mail days ago)

Oddly much of the Spam mail sent to me are addressed to a ‘dear Mr. Ali-Razan’

Cimbri

 

[cgannon64]

Originally posted by napoleon526
Anyone know how I can search for and get rid of this spyware? I have McAfee Security but that only protects against viruses.

There are some threads in the Computer forum that will help you. I used one from there, it worked great. Got all the spyware. And I had a TON on my computer.

 

[Cimbri]

Here is the Link to the thread Mr. Jeratain started in Computer Talk.

Cimbri

 

[pdescobar]

Originally posted by napoleon526
Anyone know how I can search for and get rid of this spyware? I have McAfee Security but that only protects against viruses.

There's a program called Ad-Aware that has a free version and will search for such stuff. The company is Lavasoft but I don't have an exact URL.

 

[napoleon526]

Will this interfere with Kazaa? I think that Kazaa uses spyware.

 

[Cimbri]

Originally posted by napoleon526
Will this interfere with Kazaa? I think that Kazaa uses spyware.

Yep

Originally posted by Jeratain
Now regarding the Kazaa issue. Kazaa does require the ads and spyware to run. That's why you should never install Kazaa to begin with. Only install Kazaa Lite, or WinMX. WinMX has no spyware and works fine. Kazaa Lite is the exact same thing as Kazaa - it uses the same servers and everything. The only difference is, it doesn't have any of the spyware. You can find Kazaa Lite at http://www.kazaalite.nl/ or at http://doa2.host.sk/ .

 

[Ohwell]

I've seen weight loss popups on weight loss threads.

 

[CivCube]

Recently I've seen a few posts that had pop-ups relating to the content. Is this some spyware searching key words?

[threads merged -- TF]

 

[Ohwell]

Yup, this has happened alot to me before especially about medicine and weight loss.