If You Get an Ad that Self-installsFollow

We don't condone these ads and remove them from our site as soon as we know about them. Unfortunately, we use several ad companies to supply ads to us and they tend to just take the advertiser's money and shoot the ads across their network and let us find them and remove them. Thus, if you get an ad the does a self-install, we need to know about it in order to remove it. So that we know which company is sending us the ad, we need to know the source of the page that caused the ad. Please copy the source of the page where you got the ad and send it to us and we will do our best to get the ad removed from the site.

Thanks, and sorry for any problems these ads may cause when they appear.

Edited, Tue Sep 7 10:38:42 2004 by Allakhazam

Edited, Wed Sep 22 01:05:43 2004 by Illia

Two questions.

Erase, meaning format?

What popup blocker do you use? I'd give the Google toolbar a try, or download Firefox or MyIE2 and use that for a browser.

yeah, getting ads while still premium is a sign of having a scumware ad installed. download and run ad-aware from www.lavasoftusa.com, and spybot search and destroy. Also download javacool's spywer blaster. install, update and run all three of those and see if it clears up the problem. if it doesn't, post in the tech support forum and we'll get your computer all cleaned up

Some ads can install themselves without your permission using known exploits. Some of them are so vicious that they can bring a P4 3.2 with 2GB of ram to its ever loving knees. I clean PC's from scumware for a living. They can come from almost any ad provider.

I have also seen PC's so compromised that they had to be formatted.

Use Ad-Aware and Spybot S-D regularly to clean up the little things. Spybot disables about 2000 varients of adware installers before you get a chance to accidentally click yes instead or no.