# Swimsuit Network Direct? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [April 1, 2004, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swimsuit-network-direct/237689 "2004-04-01T07:06:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2004, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swimsuit-network-direct/237689/1 "2004-04-01T07:06:18Z")
This may not really be About This Message Board, but every time I log on here I get this continual pop-up asking me whether I want to subscribe to something like the Swimsuit Direct Network, and all the affiliated SD software . . . or something like that. And I always say no. I really want to stop this thing . . . it comes up and distracts me from what I’m doing, I have no clue what the Swimsuit Direct network is, and I want this popup to go away and never come back. And why does it only happen when I’m on this board? (ANd why doesn’t it happen now, so I can get its precise name?) ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2004, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swimsuit-network-direct/237689/2 "2004-04-01T07:10:28Z")
Sounds like you need to run a check with Ad-Aware and Spybot. This site doesn’t have pop-ups. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2004, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swimsuit-network-direct/237689/3 "2004-04-03T21:15:10Z")
See my sig for relevant links (searching google for spybot usually finds bogus immitations) ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2004, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swimsuit-network-direct/237689/4 "2004-04-10T17:30:37Z")
All right. I didn’t mean to suggest that the SDMB was sponsoring the Swimsuit Network, but that was the only time I saw that particular pop-up. Ah, those were the good old days. Suddenly I am getting so many pop-ups that I’m having troubling logging onto things–they pop in and disrupt my password, etc. So, okay. I have downloaded AdaWare and spboty, and something tells me these programs are not for amateurs. I am an amateur. Any suggestions? Should I just get rid of everything they flag? (crossing fingers that this post actually posts and doesn’t disappear into the realm of popups) ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2004, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swimsuit-network-direct/237689/5 "2004-04-10T18:26:09Z")
> [@Cicada2003](#): > > I have downloaded AdaWare and spboty, and something tells me these programs are not for amateurs. They may look complicated but you can get away with running the ‘default’ settings on both of them. > [@](#): > > I am an amateur. Any suggestions? Should I just get rid of everything they flag? Yes. In adaware I think you have to right click and press ‘select all found spyware’ or something. Just make sure you’ve updated the definitions (again, quite straight forward) If you still have trouble I’ll give you more specific help when i get home, I am at work where adaware and spybot are not instaled so I can only guess at the name of the buttons to press. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2004, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swimsuit-network-direct/237689/6 "2004-04-11T01:57:50Z")
> [@Cicada2003](#): > > All right. I didn’t mean to suggest that the SDMB was sponsoring the Swimsuit Network, but that was the only time I saw that particular pop-up. Ah, those were the good old days. > > Suddenly I am getting so many pop-ups that I’m having troubling logging onto things–they pop in and disrupt my password, etc. So, okay. I have downloaded AdaWare and spboty, and something tells me these programs are not for amateurs. > > I am an amateur. Any suggestions? Should I just get rid of everything they flag? > > (crossing fingers that this post actually posts and doesn’t disappear into the realm of popups) They are actually very easy to use. I don’t bother to change the settings on mine, and I’m quite happy with the way my computer performs. The first time I ran those programs I was AMAZED at the stuff that they found. Surfing is much easier now. My PERSONAL preference is to have my computer prompt me before running ActiveX on sites that I haven’t designated as safe. I also have my computer prompt me before installing on demand. I can’t remember where I changed my settings, but I do remember changing them. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2004, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swimsuit-network-direct/237689/7 "2004-04-11T16:43:21Z")
> [@Lynn Bodoni](#): > > I can’t remember where I changed my settings, but I do remember changing them. Internet Explorer. Tools-\>Internet Options, Advanced tab and Security tab. ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2004, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swimsuit-network-direct/237689/8 "2004-04-11T19:39:58Z")
Aaah, this is _much_ better. **Lobsang,** thanks for the links. Googling for Spybot does indeed bring up gazillions of links, some of which are no doubt even more pernicious than Swimsuit Network Direct. (Or whatever it was.)