The website below pushes unwanted pop up screens all over yer darn computer
screen. Just to let anyone know where they come from.
http://billz1064.proboards.com/ "The Transport Forum"
DR

On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 19:17:08 +0100, "Pre-38"
wrote:

The website below pushes unwanted pop up screens all over yer darn computer
screen. Just to let anyone know where they come from.
http://billz1064.proboards.com/ "The Transport Forum"
DR

You obviously have little or no idea on how the internet works -
discussion boards are not free - they are paid for by advertising,
hence the pop-ups - or are you one of those people who refuses to
watch any TV channel except BBC, after all, all the others keep
plastering adverts all over yout television?

From: Guess Who
Date: 22/07/2003 22:33 GMT Daylight Time

You obviously have little or no idea on how the internet works -
discussion boards are not free - they are paid for by advertising,
hence the pop-ups - or are you one of those people who refuses to
watch any TV channel except BBC, after all, all the others keep
plastering adverts all over yout television?

Yeah, but TV adverts don't place "data miners" or "keystroke trackers"on your
system like some of these cookies and pop-ups do. Like the one that stuck one
on mine, grabbed my passwords and used one of my addresses to send out 700
e-mails one night when I wasn't even on line! In fact, I was in bed!

Acrosticus wrote:
From: Guess Who
Date: 22/07/2003 22:33 GMT Daylight Time

You obviously have little or no idea on how the internet
works -
discussion boards are not free - they are paid for by
advertising,
hence the pop-ups - or are you one of those people who
refuses to
watch any TV channel except BBC, after all, all the others
keep
plastering adverts all over yout television?

Yeah, but TV adverts don't place "data miners" or
"keystroke trackers"on your system like some of these
cookies and pop-ups do. Like the one that stuck one on
mine, grabbed my passwords and used one of my addresses to
send out 700 e-mails one night when I wasn't even on line!
In fact, I was in bed!

That's called a virus and will hopefully teach you to use suitable
protection.

"Acrosticus" wrote in message
...

Yeah, but TV adverts don't place "data miners" or "keystroke
trackers"on your
system like some of these cookies and pop-ups do. Like the one that
stuck one
on mine, grabbed my passwords and used one of my addresses to send
out 700
e-mails one night when I wasn't even on line! In fact, I was in bed!

Use a decent firewall such as Zone Alarm... This will block pop-ups
and will manage/prevent cookies as well as preventing anything being
written onto your computer. Since installing ZA, I've been amazed how
many attempts are made to access my computer - currently shows 58848
attempts blocked over the last 12 weeks!

"Pre-38" wrote in message ...
The website below pushes unwanted pop up screens all over yer darn computer
screen. Just to let anyone know where they come from.
http://billz1064.proboards.com/ "The Transport Forum"
DR

Listen, not trying to cause a big fight here - but you can't expect
anything free not to have a catch - in this case our forum gets a
few... a FEW pop ups and pop unders to pay for the free hosting we get
and even they are soon to go.

If you don't like it - don't go to the forums but don't go slagging us
for as we have over 200 members who can handle a few pop ups for a
great discussion place for transport.

I seriously don't why a FEW pop ups stop you from coming - it just
sounds crazy.

"Pre-38" wrote in
:

The website below pushes unwanted pop up screens all over yer darn
computer screen. Just to let anyone know where they come from.
http://billz1064.proboards.com/ "The Transport Forum"
DR


DR: Are you using Windows?
If you are, you have a no-cost remedy immediately to hand.

Look on your PC for a file called hosts.
In Windows ME you'll find it he C:\WINDOWS\hosts
In Win 2000 it's he C:\WINNT\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

You can edit this file with Notepad.

Add these lines to block the pop-ups on this site:

127.0.0.1 www.banners.4d5.net
127.0.0.1 banners.4d5.net
127.0.0.1 www.4d5.net

If you want to block the advert panel at the top, add this line:

127.0.0.1 pagead2.googlesyndication.com

If you want to block the paypal advert at the bottom of the page, which
is the item that generates the warning symbol in IE, add this:

127.0.0.1 www.paypal.com

And if you want to block the page's counter, add this:

127.0.0.1 c3.thecounter.com

Now you can browse *that* site in privacy.

Wow! thanks very much Peter for that. Unfortunately I've already slagged off
his Forum for this, plus he's called me an asshole. Still it'll be useful
for all sites in future. This is amazing thanks again Peter. Takes an
expert to know about these things.
DaveR

"Pre-38" wrote in message
...
Wow! thanks very much Peter for that. Unfortunately I've already slagged
off
his Forum for this, plus he's called me an asshole. Still it'll be useful
for all sites in future. This is amazing thanks again Peter. Takes an
expert to know about these things.
DaveR



But it doesn't take any expertise to understand that such sites are paid for
by advertising, no advertising = no publicly availalbe free to use sites".
Why do you want something for nothing when the price is only a mouse click
or two? Do you aplly the same logic to TV and refuse to buy anything that's
advertised on it?

"Cast_Iron" wrote in message
...
But it doesn't take any expertise to understand that such sites are paid
for
by advertising, no advertising = no publicly availalbe free to use sites".

No of course it doesn't. Well in all honesty I actually thought the Forum
was hosted by "some ONE" rather than a free sign up type affair and I just
couldn't work out where all the pops ups were commin from at first because I
visit loads of sites all simultaneously so I often have loads of different
sites at the same time that I sometimes minimise in IExplorer browser. But I
doubt if your gonna believe that true as it is. All the Forums I've ever
used are hosted by some individual I mean I got phpBB2 just installed
(nothing on it) on my own webspace see : http://cgi.centaur.plus.com/phpBB2
and there's no push pop ups on that. You could use that for your Train
Forum.

When I discovered it was the Transport Forum doing it I was incensed at
this. The Ad aware I kept running threw up that the cookies were "miners".
What they hell they are I don't know but whatever a "miner" is I know pretty
damn invasive probably responsible for passing info to all and sundry then
ya get bombarded with unwanted e mails . I get enough of them already, don't
we all? The other thing that hapens is you get executables arrive on your
desktop. Its all very well for others to start blabbin' on about what do I
expect and what's a few pop ups an all that, well of course now I see its a
free host, so obviously I know now don't I.

The other thing is its always useful to have members on the Forum that are
actually Train Drivers because they at least can update with knowledge from
insider perspective. Not to have me as a member for what I could
occasionally post to help is clearly a downside I would say, especially as
the reason is a simply corrected one, i.e., as a result of pushing pop ups
on my computer. It seems now as though I can stop this, due to the very
kind post from Peter Wright whereby i'm sure many others who posted on the
Transport Forum about this annoying feature will undoubtably use. But thats
life and the slagging off is done and I'm not getting on my knees to
apologise. But it doesn't mean I won't return some day even as "guest" after
all I thought it was a really good site. Shame.

DR