# One aggravating pop-up

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-aggravating-pop-up/587817>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 4, 2011, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-aggravating-pop-up/587817 "2011-07-04T15:30:27Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![SanDiegoTim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@SanDiegoTim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanDiegoTim)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2011, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-aggravating-pop-up/587817/1 "2011-07-04T15:30:27Z")

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There’s only one pop-up that I cannot close without it actually opening. It’s got “zedo” in the title. Has this company devised a fool-proof code to insure the ad actully opens?

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**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2011, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-aggravating-pop-up/587817/2 "2011-07-04T18:39:26Z")

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How are you trying to close it? Just because a corner has an ‘x’ or says close doesn’t mean that it is programed to close if you click it.

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**Author:** ![SanDiegoTim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@SanDiegoTim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanDiegoTim)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2011, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-aggravating-pop-up/587817/3 "2011-07-04T21:02:42Z")

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Before it’s actually open I “right click” it closed on the bar across the bottom of the screen. Every other pop up disappears right then. Not this one, though. It opens and then I have to “x” it closed.

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**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2011, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-aggravating-pop-up/587817/4 "2011-07-05T02:32:49Z")

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I have another one, but it is a pop-behind.

It’s from this site, which I just linked to a news article on. Click around a bit if you don’t get the pop-behind. You should.

[Pop behind ad killing me.](http://www.thenewsherald.com/articles/2011/07/04/news/doc4e0e2f232e3a0476153346.txt)

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**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2011, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-aggravating-pop-up/587817/5 "2011-07-07T12:44:41Z")

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May be a virus, or an ad trying to download one. If you do a search on “zedo ad virus” you’ll get some hits.