Epimethius
Wish I Hadn't Been Here
- Joined
- May 29, 2004
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J'accuse l'index! 
Chances are there is a thread on this already, but I felt I should start a new one because, rather than simply complaining, I am also asking for help. When I first came to this site a number of popups appeared, which is not too unusual, though I did notice a particular news piece about malignant popups on the site. Then, popups started appearing at other webpages, where there were no popups before. Then many, many, many more than usual. Then I went online and was utterly flooded with them, including one that pops up every time trying to get me to sign a terms of service thingy for some unknown product. According to one of the popups, this is a result of spywhere (i seemed to fit all the symptoms). Rather than take more effective action, I simply got offline, changed the home page, deleted everything I could (including numerous programs that had made half of my Program Files folder things I had never seen nor ever wanted to see). This caused it to go away for a while. But its happening again. The "New Document" popped up, I had a new home page, programs try to install themselves every two minutes, and a number don't even have the manners to ask my permission first, Tricky.com is constantly asking me if I think some chick is hot whenever I open a thread, a program just a second ago installed itself after I typed the letter "d," and google has more popups than most porn sites. I have a cable connection, tend to leave it on (I don't give a damn if hackers use my thing, though I have saved a file to my desktop insulting them, out of hope that they will see it and I will, somehow, feel clever for having done that). I have absolutely no idea what to do, and plan to simply delete everything I find slightly suspicious, followed by a lot of cleaning. I also plan to leave the computer (a laptop) completely unplugged and under a pillow for the duration of my trip to St. Louis this weekend, when it will be at home.
As far as I can tell, this all came from this site. I hope you're all happy.
Seriously, though, I've brought this up to
1. Prevent this from happening to other people by notifying the staff. This was the site's main page, not the forums. It has spread to elsewhere, however, including the forums, and tends to take place continuously (like when some program set itself up halfway through my rant).
2. See if anyone can give me advice. I'm whatever the opposite of computer savvy is, so be very patronizing. Currently I plan to purge anything and everything that doesn't seem familiar, which will probably end up deleting notepad (happened a while ago somehow, but it reinstalled itself
)
3. Tell someone, because it was pissing the hell out of me
4. Subtly inform the citizens and citizenesses of the Demogame that I will be away until late Sunday, and thus unable to ask stupid questions and screw things up.
Hopefully this will have accomplished something good by the time I excavate it from the sofa cushion fortress I plan to build around it (to stop those damn popups/hackers from doing anything while I'm gone).
Chances are there is a thread on this already, but I felt I should start a new one because, rather than simply complaining, I am also asking for help. When I first came to this site a number of popups appeared, which is not too unusual, though I did notice a particular news piece about malignant popups on the site. Then, popups started appearing at other webpages, where there were no popups before. Then many, many, many more than usual. Then I went online and was utterly flooded with them, including one that pops up every time trying to get me to sign a terms of service thingy for some unknown product. According to one of the popups, this is a result of spywhere (i seemed to fit all the symptoms). Rather than take more effective action, I simply got offline, changed the home page, deleted everything I could (including numerous programs that had made half of my Program Files folder things I had never seen nor ever wanted to see). This caused it to go away for a while. But its happening again. The "New Document" popped up, I had a new home page, programs try to install themselves every two minutes, and a number don't even have the manners to ask my permission first, Tricky.com is constantly asking me if I think some chick is hot whenever I open a thread, a program just a second ago installed itself after I typed the letter "d," and google has more popups than most porn sites. I have a cable connection, tend to leave it on (I don't give a damn if hackers use my thing, though I have saved a file to my desktop insulting them, out of hope that they will see it and I will, somehow, feel clever for having done that). I have absolutely no idea what to do, and plan to simply delete everything I find slightly suspicious, followed by a lot of cleaning. I also plan to leave the computer (a laptop) completely unplugged and under a pillow for the duration of my trip to St. Louis this weekend, when it will be at home.
As far as I can tell, this all came from this site. I hope you're all happy.
Seriously, though, I've brought this up to
1. Prevent this from happening to other people by notifying the staff. This was the site's main page, not the forums. It has spread to elsewhere, however, including the forums, and tends to take place continuously (like when some program set itself up halfway through my rant).
2. See if anyone can give me advice. I'm whatever the opposite of computer savvy is, so be very patronizing. Currently I plan to purge anything and everything that doesn't seem familiar, which will probably end up deleting notepad (happened a while ago somehow, but it reinstalled itself
)3. Tell someone, because it was pissing the hell out of me
4. Subtly inform the citizens and citizenesses of the Demogame that I will be away until late Sunday, and thus unable to ask stupid questions and screw things up.
Hopefully this will have accomplished something good by the time I excavate it from the sofa cushion fortress I plan to build around it (to stop those damn popups/hackers from doing anything while I'm gone).
I have the automatic updates enabled so my computer downloads all critical updates the same day it's available and notifies me when the update is ready for install. 
