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Am I the only one who can't block pop-up s here?

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Pop-ups on this site beat my blocker every time I come here. Is this the rent we pay, or is it just me?
dismemberedtoejam
8:49:52 AM
10/25/06

no pop-ups on TT, only the occasional pop-under and frankly i can't recall the last time i saw one of those. if you are getting pop-ups i would get ad-aware and scan your pc for adware.
Jimmy san
8:51:17 AM
10/25/06

Same here, I haven't gotten a pop-up from TT in months.
lumbering ax murderer
8:56:52 AM
10/25/06

I agree with Jimmy san, you have adware on your computer. Article about it below, and the 2nd link is a list of scanners you can use (go about half-way down for the list).

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/security/expert/honeycutt_spyware.mspx

http://www.firewallguide.com/spyware.htm
techntrek
10:32:36 AM
10/25/06

I pretty much have a no-popup policy. I use to have pop-unders on other pages in the site, but I took those down months ago.
matt, the webmaster
11:39:25 AM
10/25/06

It's likely that you've got some spyware going, but use Firefox to beat more of the exploits,, I can't wait for 2.0 to be finished.
swamp yankee
11:54:06 AM
10/25/06

Firefox 2.0 is finished. It came out yesterday.
matt, the webmaster
12:52:34 PM
10/25/06

It's looking like Ad-aware took care of it. Thanks guys!

When I bought my computer a guy talked me into buying Trend Micro PC-cillin - what crap that is. It downloads about 1MB of stuff to my computer everyday and it's so user-unfriendly you can't delete any of the bad stuff it finds.
dismemberedtoejam
5:31:12 AM
10/26/06

I was starting to have trouble again but firefox ad-on adblock plus took care of it for me.

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1865/
bearmagnet
4:49:16 PM
10/30/06

Gotta stop clicking on all those porn sites, bear!
techntrek
7:33:17 AM
10/31/06

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