Pop-ups: Disrupting my games.

by TriggerHappy on 03/05/2004 01:54, 16 messages, last message: 03/07/2004 21:52, 1085 views, last view: 05/02/2024 13:23

pop-ups are disrupting my games and im getting sick of it. I cant play and win if i get shot while trying to close a pop-up. Is there anyway cube can IGNORE them? im scanning my computer for spam/adware right now...again... becuase i need an answer urgently.

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by dcp on 03/05/2004 02:39

what sort of popups? are you running winXP?

btw: cube has nothing to do with these popups...

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by pushplay on 03/05/2004 03:36, refers to #1

You have adware on your computer. You're also using IE. Both are bad.

Solve the first with adaware from: http://www.lavasoftusa.com/ and solve the second with firefox from http://www.mozilla.org

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by Drakker_ on 03/05/2004 03:44

Or Opera from opera.com, which works real nice too. (you might want to check out K-Meleon too, dunno how far it progressed tho...)

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by Demigod on 03/05/2004 06:46

delete your cookies and disable windows messenger service.And also set the cookie settings to always prompt.

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#5: when i was using windows

by D.plomat on 03/05/2004 13:04

Kazaa was also doing this... even one day i got woken up in the night by a popup with sound, lol!

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#6: haha

by TriggerHappy2 on 03/06/2004 02:56

ur kazaa story is funny. i dont use it though.. used too.

now i am runnign ad-aware 6.. will update soon.

um... my mcafee took over 2 hours to scan my computer and this program took less then a minute.. omg this is amazing. lemme see if it worked. il try playing a game or two.

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#7: well..

by TriggerHappy3 on 03/06/2004 04:07, refers to #6

good news. ad-aware fixed it all. i recomend it to all.

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#8: Adaware scam

by AkLiX on 03/06/2004 19:45

The free version of ad-aware is spyware in itself. So is the free version of spybot search and destroy. But they should be able to keep each other at bay if you have both.

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#9: Re: Adaware scam

by TriggerHappy2 on 03/06/2004 19:50, refers to #8

waht ur saying is too bad, but until i see side-effects, i think il just take a breather.

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#10: Re: Adaware scam

by fsmunoz2 on 03/06/2004 21:24, refers to #8

Can you elaborate on that? I don't run Windows but I generally recommend AdAware to friends... do you have any information/link that validates that claim?

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#11: Re: Adaware scam

by Drakker_ on 03/07/2004 01:43, refers to #10

Yeah, I'd like proofs too cuz although I dont have windows either, I still force everyone thats stuck with it to use ad-aware once in a while...

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by staffy02 on 03/07/2004 03:04

i just used ad-aware and it found well over 60 files that were "bad". who knows what they were doing to my system.

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by e:n:i:g:m:a on 03/07/2004 05:22

Ad-aware is in some cases, oversenstive. It picks up alot of cookies, for example. However, if you downloaded any WildTangent games (BlasterBall 2, for example), it installs some ad software included with the Game Channel. Alot of other free software also is ad-funded, and does a little bit of spy work.

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by fsmunoz2 on 03/07/2004 17:56, refers to #13

I undestand that AdAware is oversensitive (mainly with cookies); but the "ad funded free software" detection is actually one of the features that people relly on; you see, some of the "free" software ("free" in the Windows-users sense of the word) doesn't explicitly say that it will install software that monitors your browsing habits. This is something that people sometimes consider a price too high to pay, and if they knew it they wouldn't have install it.

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by dcp on 03/07/2004 20:00

the strangest thing with adaware i experienced on my girlfriends PC. she had installed an older game called 'shadowman'. one day we ran adaware on her system. adaware found some spyware-files, among them were some files from the 'gator' spyware. we let adaware remove all these files.

lol, next time she ran the game it crashed. and we found out, that adaware had removed an ememy model file because the filename included the word 'gator' (the model actually was an alligator). rofl

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by >driAn<. on 03/07/2004 21:52

*g

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