Am I The Only One Who Thinks This Is Wrong?

[demuire]

Bloody ads, and all them bloody spammers. They're getting worse, I tell ya. So here I am, I innocently go to news.google.com.au, to get my daily update of what's happening in the world.

 

And then I get this pop up. For about 0.632 seconds I take it seriously, and then I see where it's coming from.

 

BLOODY SPAMMERS TRYING TO GET ME TO INSTALL THEIR BLOODY ADWARE!!!

 

*gruff*

 

I'm so glad I'm using Firefox. If it wasn't for Firefox I'd most probably have more adware than I have actual programs...

[Super Jamie]

these pop up all the time

 

for a laugh, try connecting an unpatched 2000 or xp machine (no service packs) directly to the internet. it took my last 2k install <45 minutes to get totally raped to the point it was just unusable

 

i still can't believe how open ie6 is. you can make registry changes, install software, change pretty much anything you like without the user's consent. absolute piece of garbage

[wyldephyre]

I;ve gotten that one before... but I the "You may have whatever" message set off alarm bells.. the writing style is different from standard MS messages... I did a double take, and sure enough, it was in a firefox window. I shitlisted *caselmedia.com* after that.

[Super Jamie]

in kazaa lite, they have a program that replaces your hosts file with a known shitlist, so alot of garbage like that redirects to 127.0.0.1. half the time i get ad banners and popups with my own xitami server giving a 404

[Super Jamie]

pwn3d :D

[KE70MAN]

hahaha i have a MAC...sux to be U!!

Carl

[Ruts]

in kazaa lite, they have a program that replaces your hosts file with a known shitlist, so alot of garbage like that redirects to 127.0.0.1. half the time i get ad banners and popups with my own xitami server giving a 404

XP has that file too - HOSTS.SAM

 

just ad the URL/NAME to the list and point it to your local machine ... no ads - doesn't stop them popping up though