# Pop-ups **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [April 13, 2002, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-ups/103479 "2002-04-13T20:39:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Helen\_s\_Eidolon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Helen\_s\_Eidolon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helen_s_Eidolon)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2002, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-ups/103479/1 "2002-04-13T20:39:00Z")
I have recently (ie, the past day) been getting pop ups when I open [www.straightdope.com](http://www.straightdope.com). Is this a new revenue-gaining venture on the part of the Reader? ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2002, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-ups/103479/2 "2002-04-13T20:46:27Z")
I’ve got no pop-up killers installed, and I don’t see anything. It may be a parting gift from a site that you’re leaving. Where are you coming from? Alternately, you could have some nasty spyware–do a search on AdAware, download it, and run it. ---
**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2002, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-ups/103479/3 "2002-04-14T02:43:06Z")
I’m not getting any popups, either. ---
**Author:** ![Drastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Drastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drastic)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2002, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-ups/103479/4 "2002-04-14T13:32:52Z")
Nor I, at work. (Pop-ups aren’t an issue in any case with Opera, which I use at home.) Go download [Ad-Aware](http://www.lavasoft.de/). It sounds like your system’s infected with some strain or other of scumware. ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2002, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-ups/103479/5 "2002-04-14T20:13:53Z")
We have no popups installed. We haven’t and I don’t think we will. Since it’s our own in-hour banner ads we’re not even running with DoubleClick right now, so what’s happening with you is not a product of anything involving this site. Drastic gave some good advice, it’s not a bad thing to do, period. You’ll be amazed – and enraged – at what the ad guys have done. your humble TubaDiva Administrator ---
**Author:** ![Helen\_s\_Eidolon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Helen\_s\_Eidolon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helen_s_Eidolon)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2002, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-ups/103479/6 "2002-04-14T23:27:17Z")
Well, thanks a lot for your advice, guys! I had over 100 components of spyware on my computer. ---
**Author:** ![Caffeine.addict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f475e1/32.png) [@Caffeine.addict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caffeine.addict)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2002, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-ups/103479/7 "2002-04-15T00:43:04Z")
Make sure you are using Lavasoft’s Refupdate. This will update Ad-Aware. The last update found the remnants of the bd3 projector that comes with Kazaa, and removed all of it. Here is the link [http://download.com.com/3000-2094-8655909.html?tag=lst-0-1](http://download.com.com/3000-2094-8655909.html?tag=lst-0-1) ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2002, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-ups/103479/8 "2002-04-15T01:33:17Z")
Corrected link: [http://download.com.com/3000-2094-8655909.html?tag=lst-0-1](http://download.com.com/3000-2094-8655909.html?tag=lst-0-1)