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Thread poster: Dan Marasescu
Dan Marasescu
Dan Marasescu  Identity Verified
Romania
Local time: 00:56
Member (2003)
English to Romanian
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Aug 30, 2003

Hi,

Lately I've been receiving pop-up windows while navigating on ProZ. One of them is "Buy legal Marijuana Alternatives On the Web Here!".
I have to say that this doesn't happen when navigating outside ProZ.
Is this happening to you too?
 
Claudia Iglesias
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Chile
Local time: 18:56
Member (2002)
Spanish to French
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Hi Dan Aug 30, 2003

I haven't noticed it with ProZ, but when my msn is ON, I have all kind of pop up windows.

When I leave for sometime I close all the Internet windows and leave just msn marking "absent". When I come back I have plenty of pop up windows. You can do a test.

[Edited at 2003-08-30 13:22]
 
Jason Grimes
Jason Grimes
Local time: 18:56
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ProZ.com does not do pop-up advertising Aug 30, 2003

Dan,

Those pop-ups are not coming from ProZ.com. You are likely infected with one or more "adware" or "spyware" programs that shows you pop-up ads while you browse the web. One adware removal tool I've used with success is Ad-aware; a free download is available here:

http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/

Hope this helps.

-jg
 
Dan Marasescu
Dan Marasescu  Identity Verified
Romania
Local time: 00:56
Member (2003)
English to Romanian
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TOPIC STARTER
thanks Aug 31, 2003

It seems that I got rid of it thanks to your advice. Thanks a lot.

Jason Grimes wrote:

Dan,

Those pop-ups are not coming from ProZ.com. You are likely infected with one or more "adware" or "spyware" programs that shows you pop-up ads while you browse the web. One adware removal tool I've used with success is Ad-aware; a free download is available here:

http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/

Hope this helps.

-jg
 


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