jrtman wrote:
Runevalkyrie wrote:
To be all out honest, there are certain pop-ups that indeed bypass adblocking software (even Firefox.) If these do occur, they need to be reported to Neopets so they can be removed.
Yeah, the Firefox popup blocker (if you can even call it that)
sucks. 85% of the popups get through and some of the time the popups open before they get closed... useless to say the least.
jrtman: That's very strange, I haven't gotten a single popup in Firefox in literally over 3 months. There's only one cause I can think of off the top of my head: are you sure your version of Firefox is up to date? There was a hole in, IIRC, 1.0.1 and earlier that let some through. The current version is 1.0.
7. If you're not using the latest version, you should upgrade IMMEDIATELY, for other reasons.
To everyone else: Are your popups flash popups or actual popup
windows? You can tell by looking at the top: if they have the same title bar and minimize/maximize/close buttons as most programs, they're windows. If they have a "special" close button, they're flash popups*.
If they're normal windows, there's a couple places they could come from. It could be adware, it could be the ads on neopets. (Flash can cause its own special popups or normal popup windows.)
To get rid of them, the first thing to do is make sure your computer doesn't have any spyware or adware. IF you're certain it doesn't, make sure you have the latest version of your browser. For Firefox I know this is 1.0.7, Opera I believe is 8.5 and Safari 2.0.(1? 2?). Those two steps should stop all popups from appearing.
If you're on Internet Explorer, MSN, or AOL (the last two are based on the first), I can't help you. I suggest you switch to Firefox.
* On other sites, they could be javascript popups, but not on neopets.
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