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Advert popping up from nowhere! by M73A on 06-25-2009 at 02:49 PM

I cant pin down which program it is!

just to check, does msn have a little transformers flash advert thing? (im not sure if its a bit of a glitchy patched msn, ive got the ads removed)

if i rollover it expands and i can press the close button.

trying to find out if its msn, or some adware! :(

scanning now.

RE: Advert popping up from nowhere! by M73A on 06-25-2009 at 02:52 PM

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Originally posted by nimicitor
Have you looked in Task Manager to see whats running?

yeah, have been googling processes but can't find anything thats out of the norm. gr.

my suspicion is on the Air Mouse (iphone App) pc side server software, as it was the latest thing i installed. it didnt say anything about adverts though, if it did it was in the small print
RE: Advert popping up from nowhere! by Volv on 06-25-2009 at 03:00 PM

Well I don't know if it is Messenger, but Messenger does indeed sometimes have annoying rollover oversized flash ads.

If it's an ad for the actual Transformers movie then it's probably Messenger since I doubt they would be advertising through random adware, but I wouldn't take my word for it :p

RE: Advert popping up from nowhere! by M73A on 06-25-2009 at 03:05 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Volv
Well I don't know if it is Messenger, but Messenger does indeed sometimes have annoying rollover oversized flash ads.

If it's an ad for the actual Transformers movie then it's probably Messenger since I doubt they would be advertising through random adware, but I wouldn't take my word for it :p

thats what i thought, and its around the size of msn ads! so... lol,

scanning anyway

quote:
Originally posted by nimicitor
Have you checked the Startup tab of msconfig to make sure no rouge programs are starting up?

I keep an eye on that quite a lot, I hate every updater in the world running on start up! but nothing seems to have appeared there either.

EDIT: scan didn't find anything except some cookies. I guess its just msn ads.
RE: Advert popping up from nowhere! by foaly on 06-25-2009 at 03:34 PM

Yes it probably is msn, had the same problem. Went away when they switched to another add though :)

RE: Advert popping up from nowhere! by M73A on 06-25-2009 at 03:49 PM

quote:
Originally posted by foaly
Yes it probably is msn, had the same problem. Went away when they switched to another add though :)

glad to hear it :) lol

thanks guys
RE: Advert popping up from nowhere! by M73A on 06-25-2009 at 07:15 PM

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Originally posted by nimicitor
quote:
Originally posted by M73A
quote:
Originally posted by foaly
Yes it probably is msn, had the same problem. Went away when they switched to another add though :)

glad to hear it :) lol

thanks guys

Your welcome fellow thirty eighter!

[offtopic] haha, (y) yeah reps have very much slowed down as far as i can tell! do people still use this system? have been semi away for a while! [/offtopic]
RE: Advert popping up from nowhere! by blessedguy on 06-25-2009 at 07:25 PM

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Originally posted by M73A
do people still use this system?
As far as I know, yep =)