It’s not something you install on the computer, per se, it’s something you put on the browser – it’s an extension. I haven’t used Explorer in years, but I’m sure Adblock Plus would have a version for it.
I would also really reccomend using Chrome or Firefox.
Hope you get everything worked out!
Adblock Plus for Internet Explorer
I highly recommend it. But I don’t think this is causing the problem you describe here, because
a) you’re only seeing ads on the one machine
b) as a Member you shouldn’t be seeing ads at all
c) the description of what you’re seeing doesn’t sound like the ads that the SDMB displays
My bet is on the culprit being some piece of pre-installed software, or something that came bundled with a program that you downloaded (you did make sure to uncheck all those annoying ‘yes, please install this piece of crap along with the program I actually downloaded’ buttons, didn’t you?).
And as soon as I hit ‘Submit’ I noticed that there seem to be lots of reports of problems with Adblock Plus and Win 8.1.
Personally, I recommend installing Chrome (which has its own version of Adblock you can install)…but that’s just my personal preference. Firefox is ‘the other’ alternative; I confess that I haven’t paid much attention to IE to know whether or not it’s improved ober the last couple of iterations.
Well I did install adblock, and the situation seems to be resolved. Thanks!
Also reported this situation upstairs. Please continue looking at this; perhaps with your help we can figure it out. Thanks for your help, everyone.
How to take a screenshot:
Step 1: While holding down the CTRL key, hit the Print Screen Key a couple of times.
Open up Microsoft Paint. You can do that by entering the word “Paint” into the Program box in Win7 or looking inside the Accessories folder of the Start Menu.
While holding down the CTRL key, hit the letter “v”. The screen shot should materialize.
Save the file.
Email the file to the admins. If you want to post a link to it, you will have to open up a photo sharing account. I’ve used Photobucket and Inbox.com in the past.
eg http://wm40.inbox.com/thumbs/6f_130b4f_76618ad1_oP.png.thumb
Like I said, the adblocker has fixed the problem.
I’m going to forward your screenshot to the ad people; I don’t think we’re supposed to be getting ads like that.
Now things may have changed but I don’t think they have, I think this is another bad ad. Let me find out for sure.
Thank you Tuba. One note - the ad that plays looping music, etc. was here:
The one in the part of my post you quoted is just a ‘normal’ ad but was shown to demonstrate there are ads on the left column of the page.
