Popups appearing in IE on particular web site only

[Peter Jetson]

A friend of mine has a problem with IE on their computer, where when
they go to a particular web site, they get a huge number of popups.
Most of these popups are caught by their google toolbar, but some of
them get through, and the amount of time it takes to deal with all of
them makes it virtually impossible to navigate around the web site. On
other web sites, no such popups appear.

When I go to the same web site, there are no popups at all. Also, until
recently, my friend was also able to visit this web site without the
popups. She has run Ad-Aware and Spybot numerous times, without
correcting this problem.

Has anyone heard of a malicious program that does this kind of thing?
My friend lives a long way away from me, so I can only help her by
email. She's at the point where she's considering formatting her system
and reinstalling windows to get around the problem. Does anyone have
any ideas before she does this?

Thanks, Peter

 

[YoKenny]

A friend of mine has a problem with IE on their computer, where when
they go to a particular web site, they get a huge number of popups.
Most of these popups are caught by their google toolbar, but some of
them get through, and the amount of time it takes to deal with all of
them makes it virtually impossible to navigate around the web site.
On other web sites, no such popups appear.

When I go to the same web site, there are no popups at all. Also,
until recently, my friend was also able to visit this web site
without the popups. She has run Ad-Aware and Spybot numerous times,
without correcting this problem.

Has anyone heard of a malicious program that does this kind of thing?
My friend lives a long way away from me, so I can only help her by
email. She's at the point where she's considering formatting her
system and reinstalling windows to get around the problem. Does
anyone have any ideas before she does this?

Thanks, Peter

This sounds like a case for using HijackThis. Get her to download it to a
folder that has been created especially for it. The folder should look
something like C:\Hijack for easy navigation in case the need to use a
backkup.
http://www.merijn.org/files/hijackthis.zip
Ask her to NOT touch anthing in the program yet. She should unzip the
program to this folder and close all windows then run it to completion.
When it finishes have her Save the log. The log will open in Notepad so
Ctrl+a and Ctrl+C to copy the text.
Go to this forum and open a new topic and Ctrl+v paste the log into the
dialog window. An expert will be along shortly to diagnose the log. She
should use a name other than the default Guest in order to find her log.
http://forums.tomcoyote.org/index.php?s=2b67844296aad0f11ab09bd3e3746aaf&showforum=27

 

[Jafar]

I have another suggestion in addition. Try out the Mozilla browser. I use
Firebird 0.7 and it blocks all pop-ups as well as annoying java-script
things like window re-sizing etc..
www.mozilla.org
Give it a try

Jafar

 

[Laura Fredericks]

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...I use Firebird 0.7 and it blocks all pop-ups as
well as annoying java-script things like window
re-sizing etc..

That's one of my biggest pet peeves about web page
designers! Especially those that create <cough> warez
and pr0n sites! (Uh, um, so I've been told, heh.)
They hijack your browser window and make it
full-screen! The only way to get it back to what
you've set it at is to do it manually! PITA, if you
ask me! :-/

I found this great freeware script that lets you add a
new option to your context menu, "Resize Window". It's
wonderful! I don't know how I ever did without it!
http://makeashorterlink.com/?M260134D6

You can test it HERE:
http://makeashorterlink.com/?M370214D6

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