I'm not sure whether I should have started a thread on this but I'm going round in circles.
AOL Anti-Spyware tells me it has detected a piece of spyware with a name that includes the word 'popups' that is classed as 'nuisance'. When I tell the program to block it I can no longer get into Honest John and the Back Room. Is this just another advertising-linked thing I will have to put up with or is it more sinister? Can I safely leave it alone or is this goodbye Back Room forever?
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I have just removed flash from my computer here at work because this site has now killed my computer for a full week (im on millenium 2000 here)
i must have spent 10 hours this week trying to cure what i thought was my problem mike,now the flash has gone this computer now seems stable,interestingly i went to the host site last night to read up on the 3 musicians that started these flash thingies and it seems to me after reading it that it uses all the bandwidth advantages of broadband up and returns your internet connection to wind up speed (just my thoughts by the way )
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I know this is as tedious a response as 'get yourself a nice Mondeo' but...
Try Firefox, which has a nice extension that blocks Flash. You can still allow Flash for those annoying sites that rely on it.
addons.mozilla.org/firefox/433/
Having said that, I'm using Firefox on this site without the extension and I'm not seeing any problems.
Oldman: you're on either Windows Millennium or Windows 2000. They look similar but they are very different. Millennium (aka Me) was the short-lived replacement for Windows 98. Windows 2000 replaced Windows NT4. 2000 was regarded as very stable, Me was considered by many to be a basket case.
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thanks welliesorter have reloaded firefox and not the flash and it does seem better,got to say ive been seriously thinking of buying a new computer to replace this one and yes its ME operating system. :)
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Thanks, so far. Where do I get Firefox? I have an old Mac laptop as well, but it doesn't have Firefox either. Doesn't have any of the other problems either, of course...
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i use firefox all the time and never have the slow loading etc that i get with ie
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Firefox:.
mozilla.com
If the Mac is running OSX 10.2 or higher Firefox should be fine on it. Below that and you need to upgrade the OS anyway as it's almost as old as XP.
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Apart from Firefox, why not use Thunderbird instead of Outlook Express if you use this mail program?
Far superior security wise and you can "train" its Junk filter to immediately send spam to the Junk folder.
You can get both Firefox and Thunderbird from www.filehipp.com.
If/When you install one or both, leave the original as the Default program. You can then import the settings from the default programs (File>Import in FF and from Tools (?)>Import in T'bird) and then Enable both as the default.
I use Flash in Firefox and have no problems with it nor any of the usual add-ons, plug-ins etc such as Java 1.6.
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no doubt firefox and thunderbird are excellent alternatives to microsoft products. am i missing the point of the op question? so:
how will all this advice prevent/solve the original problem " AOL Anti-Spyware tells me it has detected a piece of spyware "
are you saying firefox will get rid of aol anti-spyware ?
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Yes, Dalglish, that is still the problem.
There is a piece of spyware associated with this site - although apparently only rated as a 'nuisance' that, when blocked, stops my PC loading the site at all. Why does this site need to allow advertisers to run what seems to me to be dubious spyware?
Believe it or not, Baskerville, this PC is still running Windows 98.
I've always believed it has less bugs than XP.
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"Believe it or not, Baskerville, this PC is still running Windows 98.
I've always believed it has less bugs than XP."
I have popups blocked here.
And no problems.
But I'm running a modern OS - Windows XP plus Norton AV and Firewall and Spyware detector.
I would not rely on my ISP's anti spyware detection system...(I use NTL and it's idea of spam is all the email messaging systems I am a member of!:-)
Windows 98 is no longer supported and it is vulnerable to bugs let alone crashes regularly in real time applications.
XP is VERY stable...
madf
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This is an odd problem. I can't understand why it's just this site as presumably the same ad agencies smother thousands of sites. Is there anywhere in the AOL software where you can view the blocked urls? That might give you a clue as to where the spyware came from.
One thought though. Does AOL complain when you're not online, or just when you visit this site? In other words is the pest actually on your machine, or is AOL objecting to a script on the site? If the latter Firefox will be your answer because the adblock and flashblock extensions allow you to block specific bits of the site, rather than the whole thing.
I think you'd see far more improvement from OSX 10.2 to 10.4 than you would from W98 to XP.
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Oldman. Snap! Had all kinds of problems last week with my browser. It kept sayng that it would have to close my connection to the internet browser as there was a fault and did i wish to report this problem to Microsoft (Windows XP). Which I said yes...
Eventually a message came up from Microsoft to go to tools/manage add ons, and disable them one by one until it cured itself.
Yes it was the Flash one and after disabling everything was OK.
Don't know or understand anything about Flash but it was definitely the problem.
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Oldman. Snap! Had all kinds of problems last week with my browser. It kept sayng that it would have to close my connection to the internet browser as there was a fault and did i wish to report this problem to Microsoft (Windows XP). Which I said yes... Eventually a message came up from Microsoft to go to tools/manage add ons, and disable them one by one until it cured itself. Yes it was the Flash one and after disabling everything was OK.
Snap!
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L\'escargot.
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I haven't had any problems using Firefox but I'm with oldman on the merits of Flash - for some reason it's very popular with car manufacturers - Honda's is appalling, and takes nearly 2 minutes to 'initialise' on my 500kbps connection - worse than waiting for normal pages on a dial up connection. Unfortunately there's no chance of anything better than 1mbps where I live at the moment so I hope Flash doesn't proliferate any further.
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Flash - for some reason it's very popular with car manufacturers - Honda's is appalling,
Funny you should say that. I decided to look at Honda's website the other day. Soon gave up. Appalling is the right word. If their cars were as bad as their website . . .
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The Website is flashy and overstyled, so its exactly like their cars.
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just found this and i had it loaded into my computer as well..............
go to spyware blaster website,download the free programme and once loaded if you go to the tools in the middle on the left hand side and left click it it takes you to browser pages if you look along you will see flash killer click on it and tick the box .............job done no more flash killing and no more beep beeps on IE
Job done .............. :)
sorry if its been posted already and i was snoring... :(
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The Website is flashy and overstyled, so its exactly like their cars.
Hmm, I agree that the Honda website is silly and that their latest model is grotesquely overstyled (as well as dangerously designed). But most other current Hondas (e.g. Jazz, Accord) are quite restrained.
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