spyware and adware - it's what's for dinner...

I get lots of pop up, too, but I hate to admit I'm pretty computer illiterate, so don't really know how to block them. I keep getting all sorts of porn stuff showing up in my email, too? Wonder how come? I don't open them, and just delete them, but hope that my sons never look at their mom's deleted emails, should I pass on to the next life, or they'd wonder if they're mom had a secret porn addiction.

i guess so, I'm stuffed though

think my nukes are working, the only prob so far is that circuit city thing thats just annoying, I was more concerned with the downloads of info to other sites, Zedo and other things as well, will see what happens today.

but, Mingle, circuit city, I will go to best buy now just cause of the aggravation, see how well that worked

would quit going to wal mart, but those cheesy b@stards have a monopoly on the business

haven't had the porn stuff, (knock on wood) but nothing suprises we with the "new place" anymore, they probably sit around and joke and laugh about it anyway

the only way to halfway combat the problem would be to get-

spybot search-and-destroy
spyware blaster
spyware terminator
a-squared free (anti-malware proggie)
ad-aware 2008 free edition

- and run all the programs regularly.

you'd also need to get mozilla firefox and get the "noscript" extension, as well as "adblock plus".

and don't forget to get a good anti-virus and firewall program, too.

it's the only way to make sure you're covered on your end.

see mingle, your not selling my info to the right people, I might could actually use a pooper scooper for my dog, don't need a free but not really free gift card from wal mart, dont need anything from circuit city, you changed my mind, think i'll go across the street to Best Buy

I just took off spyware terminator, have adaware going right now, spyware terminator really goes to town on this site

Hate to say this,


but nothing is free my friends,

If you see any annoying ad on the site, please let Charles know. We hate annoying ads (i.e. pop-ups, etc.) as much as you do. We are testing some new ad networks, and we don't have full control over what ads they run, but if there is an annoying ad, we can tell them to stop running it. We just need to know which ads they are.

Also, we don't give out any contact information to any other websites, period. We don't sell your email address, and your contact information is kept completely confidential. So if you are receiving spam, etc., I can 100% guarantee it's not coming from us.

Unfortunately, in order to pay for the costs of operating the site, we have to run ads if we want to keep the site free. But we want to make those ads as tolerable as possible, so if there is an ad that is crossing the line, let us know.

using nortons2008 now, have nortons 360 and was thinking about that and spysweeper

anyone use these and what do you think of them,

Maybe I have a secret "hater" who signed me up for some, who knows. I don't consider myself a prude, but just the "subject" lines on them are disgusting. What to do, huh?

and that's fine- only the owners of this place should fully disclose all of what it does to your personal information to MAKE the site "free". you don't say you don't do something only to sneak it in anyway. this goes regardless of whether it's blatant info exchange with other companies or through data-mining spyware- it's dirty pool no matter what it is.

so why did nortons tell me mingle was downloading codec segment to someone and the Zedo.com thing stuff, is this something that is being looked into, it's all recent, on my computer anyway, have the same virus and spyware with updates have had for over a year without any of this happening, haven't made any setting changes to trigger any of this either.

as far as the pop ups, the aggravating ones are from wal mart and circuit city on mine. could live with it if not for the mingle is downloading this or that to another site,

there is something going on different, new and unwanted on here

Zedo.com is an ad network - most likely what happened is that Norton was reacting to an ad cookie that was placed by Zedo. A cookie is not something that can harm your computer. A lot of ad networks use cookies to keep track of who saw what ad, and it's used to make sure the same person doesn't see the same ad too many times. Advertisers want their ad buys to reach as many different people as possible.

I will talk to our ad partner to see if I can get any Zedo.com ads taken off the site. Thanks for letting us know.

yeah- something IS going on here. either something is going on without the site owners' knowledge, or the site owners are giving us a different story. either way this is unacceptable.

i understand the whole "we need to put up ad space to pay the bills" thing, but you should be up front if the ads try funny business like data mining. it's called 'full disclosure' and often needs to be spelled out before anyone signs on any dotted line, digital or otherwise.

have to go, hope someone fixes something

actually, so far so good since i've been on here this morning, only one pop up and hopefully that wont come back,

changed some of my recomended settings higher, maybe it will help. don't know,

think i am going to BEST BUY not Circuit city and look at some programs

mike, you say ...."We don't sell your email address, and your contact information is kept completely confidential. "


Yet, your policy says you may...if you want to....i guess it is there ,just in case you "change your minds"



2.1. Discretion to Use Information:

NEXT DATING MAY SELL OR TRANSFER INDIVIDUAL INFORMATION TO THIRD PARTIES FOR ANY LEGALLY PERMISSIBLE PURPOSE IN ITS SOLE DISCRETION.

thanks, hate to complain ( okay, no I don't). It's freaky when that stuff happens so much so often. I had the choice of block and allow anyway, blocked it, so far it hasn't happened again.

So, before I go to best buy and not circuit city or wal mart to look at programs.

anyone use nortons 360 and spysweeper

should I spend the money or stick with what I have.
Nortons 2008 and ad adaware

I think I miss Avast, was slow, but works

This may have been said in here before....but the easiest way to get rid of the annoying pop ups is to switch from Internet Explorer to FireFox.

I have not seen even one pop up ad in the entire time I have been posting here.

right on...i'm with you..

.just check which version you down load...the newest will disable your bit torrent tool bar ....if you have one...