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Darwin

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« on: January 25, 2004 10:51 pm CST »
Why isnt this illegal?  This is insane how some companies go out to ruin the computing experience by slowing down performance and putting stuff in the way of people.

I am in favor of ads on websites, such as banners and so forth (its necessary to keep the internet going).  But to do something like this is rediculous.

I ended up accidentally clickng on one of those banners that advertises "thousands of emoticons", and it put the adware on my system.  Before i fired up adaware, 100's of popups flooded the screen, including this one that took it WAY too far.



My cd rom drive popped open.  Now, say somebody were writing an important file to disk while this was happening.  This should be illegal.  Makers of adware better beware.  They should go down just like the bastards at Fax.com (my house and parent's offices used to get fax-spammed every hour).
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« Reply #1 on: January 25, 2004 10:56 pm CST »
This is another thing that really ticks me off.  It spready innocently like wildfire throughout the internet via AOL instant messenger:



This makes it where you cannot change the profile unless you are able to completely remove the adware controlling it (thank god for adaware).  Unfortunately, even though my best efforts to help guide the people on my buddy lists to properly use Ad-Aware, people still have these things in their profiles.

Its rediculous.
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« Reply #2 on: January 25, 2004 11:10 pm CST »
ha... i know where that AIM thing came from.... he use to play PCRPG :P
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« Reply #3 on: January 25, 2004 11:50 pm CST »
Hahah,  I hate those things..

I've clicked on them before but it never infected my profile. I guess because I have DeadAIM.

But yeah, there was one that did the same thing except it said "New years party of 2004! Click here for more info". Somethin like that.. gah, I hate adware. From spam email to adware.. it's making the internet suck for people who don't know how to get rid of it.  :shock:
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« Reply #4 on: January 26, 2004 12:44 am CST »
omfg ur so right adware and malarkey is so forking evil the makers of it MUST fork the devil to be able to come up with something so vile. it is a plague of evil that needs to be stopped. the problem is that it is so evil that it will not be stopped, at least not by the law. and what sucks is that it will get to the point as to where ull have to pay in some way to keep it away. popups can be almost as bad such as when popups of popups have popups, that malarkey aint cool, but popup stopper stops that most of the time.
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« Reply #5 on: January 26, 2004 03:29 am CST »
People you click yes on Active-X plugins without knowing what they do need to have their limbs severed...the medieval way
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« Reply #6 on: January 26, 2004 04:50 pm CST »
hey dar.. thts not adware, thats a virus.. there are ways to get rid of it though.. its a pain in the ass
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« Reply #7 on: January 26, 2004 05:16 pm CST »
No its adware.  Ad aware picks it up and removes it.
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« Reply #8 on: January 26, 2004 05:24 pm CST »
Yea, the Christmas one looks like:



I helped Halide rid himself of the other one. Man, those things are teh sux ^_^
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« Reply #9 on: January 26, 2004 08:38 pm CST »
Get rid of the outwar links in ur sig... plz.

I also refuse to get a popup blocker.  Some of them block completely all sites from popping up, which is good and bad, and i hate disabling them just so i can click on a link...

I would get the google toolbar to help me with em, but i hate it how it takes up space on the browser.
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« Reply #10 on: January 26, 2004 10:32 pm CST »
Yeah I had google toolbar for awhile but it got annoying so I removed it. I now have this other stupid toolbar that pops up. And for some reason ad aware isn't catching it. Can someone please tell me how to remove it?? Pic below. By the way, I know I can disable it in the toolbar but it just being in my list is annoying enough. Ok, now...pic...

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« Reply #11 on: January 27, 2004 09:03 am CST »
Go to start....settings...control panel....add or remove programs....and remove anything that has to do with "TOOLBAR" or stuff like that
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« Reply #12 on: January 27, 2004 12:53 pm CST »
Quote from: "Razore"
Go to start....settings...control panel....add or remove programs....and remove anything that has to do with "TOOLBAR" or stuff like that


I've done all that. I've ran a search for it. I've checked everywhere. It's not findable  :shock:
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« Reply #13 on: January 27, 2004 01:32 pm CST »
Quote from: "Darwin"
No its adware.  Ad aware picks it up and removes it.

//nerdy voice:
Actually it may very well be a virus.  Ad Aware does also remove a host of common trojans, worms, and other rampant virii.  For example; I installed Ad Aware on a friends computer and scanned over this last weekend.  The Ad Aware turned up with the same "running processes" as Ad Ware as the Norton, also it pointed out at least 2 trojans on an other friends computer 3 weeks a go.

Also, it has been shown that all of the browser toolbars which are ad-ons through search engines and mail servers do have spyware ability.  Not only that, but once you install them it's "good luck trying to remove them."

Ad Aware does not catch every thing.  For example; there is a popup type Adware which will open every time you click a link, or open your browser, or click on a toolbar item.  It will automatically install itself if you visit the right unpaid ezboard, and as far as I can tell it is not removable unless you dish out 40$ for SpyBot (or whatever the hell it's called.) NOTE the Free version of spybot only detects bad content.  It will modify the code so it is not longer percieved as malicious, BUT, it will often replace the annoyance that the rogue application was causing with it's own ads in place of the popups, telling you to buy SpyBot so you can "get rid of this popup."  I think that is worse than the orriginal POS program that started the popups because the SpyBot modified version won't be detected by anything but spybot.  I had this whole string of events happen to me and it made me very pissed off to find out they were just unsing their free ware to get people to pay for their upgrade.  *anger*  So I avoid any sites I do not recognise or that I know are rampant with "ware" on them.

...ramble...
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« Reply #14 on: January 28, 2004 09:38 pm CST »
Pecker, did you ever run SpyBot?
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