# What's with all the pop-up ads? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [October 28, 2003, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-all-the-pop-up-ads/209942 "2003-10-28T01:01:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![raz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@raz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raz)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2003, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-all-the-pop-up-ads/209942/1 "2003-10-28T01:01:38Z")
I’ve been getting a lot of pop-up ads on the SDMB lately, which I have never gotten before. What gives? ---
**Author:** ![Berkut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a88e57/32.png) [@Berkut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Berkut)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2003, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-all-the-pop-up-ads/209942/2 "2003-10-28T01:35:45Z")
You probably have spyware or adware on your system. Download Ad-Aware or Spybot. ---
**Author:** ![Berkut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a88e57/32.png) [@Berkut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Berkut)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2003, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-all-the-pop-up-ads/209942/3 "2003-10-28T01:37:09Z")
Sorry, here are the links: [www.lavasoftusa.com](http://www.lavasoftusa.com) > **[Home - Spybot Anti-Malware and Antivirus](https://www.safer-networking.org/)** > > Spybot offers a unique technology for your security. Far beyond antivirus Spybot searches and destroys unwanted software and protects your privacy. The SDMB does not have pop-ups. ---
**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:** [October 29, 2003, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-all-the-pop-up-ads/209942/4 "2003-10-29T14:21:25Z")
Thanks for the links, that’s a big help to our membership. I recently had someone sign in to the SDMB . . . and was then promptly asked didn’t he want to download a file. Anyone else seen that? I assume it’s another kind of pop-up. We do not use pop-ups and we do not ask you to download files. your humble TubaDiva Admnistrator PS We DO use DoubleClick for the advertising we run on the front page. I wonder if there’s not someting there that’s triggering this action. Any of you experienced in this and want to share your knowledge? ---
**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2003, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-all-the-pop-up-ads/209942/5 "2003-10-29T19:14:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by TubaDiva \* > \*\*PS We DO use DoubleClick for the advertising we run on the front page. I wonder if there’s not someting there that’s triggering this action. Any of you experienced in this and want to share your knowledge? \*\* It might not have anything to do with it, Jenny, and be purely the result of spyware/adware on the person’s computer. Several people have complained to me about pop-ups, banner ads, and other things jumping, yodeling, cavorting, and GPF’ing all over the UnaBoard - which is always a shock, since I have absolutely none of those items on or linked to my Board in any possible way. Every time I’ve suggested to the person that they either run 1) AdAware and/or Spybot, and 2) Rebooted and tried again, the ads have vanished. ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2003, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-all-the-pop-up-ads/209942/6 "2003-10-29T19:28:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by TubaDiva \* > \*\*We do not use pop-ups and we do not ask you to download files. > \*\* You mean that dialer I had to download to connect to lusty, busty moderators eager to talk to me for only $6.99 per minute wasn’t authentic? I thought you’d just found a practical way to solve any server problems. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2003, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-with-all-the-pop-up-ads/209942/7 "2003-10-30T02:36:55Z")
No, **dan** , the hamsters have not been replaced by beavers.