LF Is Sporting Pop-Up Ads Now? WTF!

Q · 10-05-2008, 02:00 AM

While I understand the need for ads to pay for these forums, I think that annoying pop-ups that seem to bypass every blocker that I have installed are a bit too much.

I know, I know: I should use Firefox. The problem is that I am stuck using dialup and my accelerator does not support Firefox, and these forums are slow enough as it is with my connection.

Can something please be done about this?

**RoxStar** · 10-05-2008, 03:06 PM

I'm not really one to officially comment on this but...

I have never had a pop up ad from Lucasforums. EVER. I've used Netscape, IE, Firefox, and Chrome. Maybe they are stemming from your dialup accelerator?

TriggerGod · 10-05-2008, 04:12 PM

I'm not sure if they work that way, but, scan your computer for a virus or such. I've heard that they can cause pop-ups like that. I know mine did when I got thousands of spam messages a week on my email that carried viruses. Couldn't use it until it got clean.

Det. Bart Lasiter · 10-05-2008, 06:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Qliveur

I know, I know: I should use Firefox. The problem is that I am stuck using dialup and my accelerator does not support Firefox, and these forums are slow enough as it is with my connection.

Use Firefox and install the Fasterfox plugin?

***Thrik*** · 10-05-2008, 07:26 PM

Nobody wants pop-ups on these forums — and there shouldn't be any — so if you can provide information about exactly which advertiser was in them it'd be appreciated.

That said, I've never seen any pop-ups and I visit these forums all the time, I use Firefox, and I have no ad-blocking software of any kind. Has anyone else experienced them?

The only site I can recall seeing those horrid ads that circumvent Firefox's default pop-up blocking is IMDB.

EnderWiggin · 10-05-2008, 09:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Thrik

Nobody wants pop-ups on these forums — and there shouldn't be any — so if you can provide information about exactly which advertiser was in them it'd be appreciated.

That said, I've never seen any pop-ups and I visit these forums all the time, I use Firefox, and I have no ad-blocking software of any kind. Has anyone else experienced them?

The only site I can recall seeing those horrid ads that circumvent Firefox's default pop-up blocking is IMDB.

I've never (in my four years of LF) received a pop-up.

I used to use IE, long ago, but now I use Firefox. I also have no ad-blocker at all.

I think it's just malware on his end.

_EW_

Ray Jones · 10-06-2008, 06:22 AM

I had problems with pop-ups despite Firefox 3 and Adblock plus and whatnot installed on a friends laptop recently.

The problem was caused due to some ancient Java Runtime (JRE 2 Version 1.4) being installed. I removed it and bam, pop-ups gone.

Q · 10-06-2008, 10:23 AM

I performed a full-system malware scan before I started this thread using fully updated versions of:

Avira AntiVir Personal
Ad-Aware
Spybot Search & Destroy
SUPERAntiSpyware
Windows Defender (yes, I know that WD is practically worthless, but I use it anyway

)

They found nothing, BTW.

I did find out that these pop-ups are Flash-based and that I hadn't enabled SpywareBlaster's IE Flash killer after recently reinstalling Windows, so problem solved.

These Flash pop-ups occured during page loads only here at LF, and nowhere else.