[OT] Are you being tracked online?

Hello, everyone - just thought I'd pop in and say Hi...

*chuckle*

I have a mean scar on my right hand I got recently from one of those monsters.



I am going to tell people it was from a knife fight.

SD

That may be one of the most adorable photos I have EVER seen.

Seaver said:

BTW by ignorant I really do mean just a lack of knowledge, just realized this may look like a slam on Dragongirl which isn't the intent.

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No worries, I am still learning about comptuer stuff. At the time I thought it was going to be cute to have a purple ape on my computer, little did I know . . .

Seaver said:

Oh and back on topic...On one of my machines everytime I pull up IE a popup appears. No specific ad really. Sometimes its for gambling, other times for actual products. Anyway the pop up is linked to IE opening, not to a specific site. I'm having a hell of a time tracking down what this stupid thing is.

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I had a similar problem except something attached to my ISP. I got rid of it by running msconfig and checking out all the programs that run when you boot up. Found the culprit in there. Don't know if that would help you or not, but worth a try.

Mailwasher

I recently found a programme that helps with spam.

Mailwasher can be found at www.mailwasher.net and is donationware.

Psionicist said:

Best thread ever. Someone (I don't give a rats who) post a link to this site, "f---microsoft.com", about something that's so obviously fake I cannot imagine anyone to actually believe it. Then all of you take this "facts" as granted just because it's about the "evil corporation". Does this site show any actual proof? Any evidence at all except this "mysterious" file? This is spooky. Do you believe everything that newspapers says too? Or spam emails, about the enlarge-your-dookie-pills? Or what f----mcdonalds.com writes? I have only one word for this, or four words:

You guys are naive.

EDIT - no offense, but your point can be made without the overt circumnavigation of the profanity filter, Psionicist.
Henry

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You know that has to be a even more moronic post than people who claim that wearing tinfoil hats will stop the mind control rays. The fact of the matter is that the file isn't faked it's there, the site just made some assumptions about it's use that wasn't backed up properly. I mean when you get down to it, it wasn't a fake the file is there and it is storing information. There are thousands of files on any given computer, do you know what all of them do? do you know if all of them are harmless? At the very least the file takes up space and slows the system down, is it a plot to take over the world, no it's just a annoying file of questionable worth, windows is full of them. Now the majority of this thread is been on ways to stop spyware and spam, but I'm sure you didn't read into that, or is spam some big figment of everybodies imagination too.

One thing you can do to stop the pop up ads is to use Mozilla instead of IE and go into edit>preferences>advanced>scripts & plugins. Uncheck the first three boxes. Every once in a while there will be a site that needs to open a pop up box and as a result doesn't work right since you've turned off popups. If you encounter one of these sites, go into preferences to turn it back on, visit the site, then turn it back off when you leave.

I never ever have any popup ads unless I forget to turn it back off.

more importantly- are you being tracked offline?

My cat's breath smells like cat food.

I installed the pop-up stopper from www.panicware.com, and haven't seen a pop-up in months. On the rare occasion when a site needs to open another window, all it takes is holding down the control key.


Oh, and anyone else who likes to post about how they use Mozilla should read somethingawful.com today.