Annoying ActiveX Pop Ups

[Nick250]

Every minute or two here on AH I get a pop up asking me to download an Active X control which I don't want to do. How can that be made to go away? It's quite annoying. Google's pop up blocker is no help.

Nick

 

[SilverMK3]

http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/

 

[MDS]

I'm assuming you are using Internet Explorer.

Tools->Internet Options->Security. The level defaults to Medium. Press the 'custom level' button and make the following settings in the ActiveX Controls and Plugins section:

Automatic Prompting for ActiveX controls: disable
Download signed ActiveX controls: prompt
Download unsigned ActiveX controls: disable
Initialize and script ActiveX controls not marked safe: disable
Run ActiveX controls and plug-ins: enable
Script ActiveX controls marked safe for scripting: enable

You should then only get prompts when the page contains a signed activex control and will be presented with the security dialog showing you the certificate. I don't get any prompts at all from the AH site.

 

[Buckeyefan 1]

Every minute or two here on AH I get a pop up asking me to download an Active X control which I don't want to do. How can that be made to go away? It's quite annoying. Google's pop up blocker is no help.

Nick

You should run this every other week or so. It's much quicker than Ad-Aware and Spybot. Just be sure to read over what HijackThis has selected for deletion. It's never made a bad judgement in the time I've used it.

http://www.download.com/HijackThis/3000-8022_4-10227353.html

 

[Nick250]

I'm assuming you are using Internet Explorer.

Tools->Internet Options->Security. The level defaults to Medium. Press the 'custom level' button and make the following settings in the ActiveX Controls and Plugins section:

Automatic Prompting for ActiveX controls: disable
Download signed ActiveX controls: prompt
Download unsigned ActiveX controls: disable
Initialize and script ActiveX controls not marked safe: disable
Run ActiveX controls and plug-ins: enable
Script ActiveX controls marked safe for scripting: enable

You should then only get prompts when the page contains a signed activex control and will be presented with the security dialog showing you the certificate. I don't get any prompts at all from the AH site.

The settings you suggest match what I already have. Any other ideas let me know. Going to see if the Bucks suggestion helps.

Nick

 

[Nick250]

You should run this every other week or so. It's much quicker than Ad-Aware and Spybot. Just be sure to read over what HijackThis has selected for deletion. It's never made a bad judgement in the time I've used it.

http://www.download.com/HijackThis/3000-8022_4-10227353.html

I run AdAware fairly regularly, but Spybot not so often. I thing I will run Spybot and see if that does not clear things up, and if not, run the HijackThis app. Thanks.

Nick

 

[JoeE SP9]

Switch to Firefox, Netscape, Opera or Ace Explorer. They all have good pop up blockers built in. If you're adventerous you can run the latest Beta version of IE.

 

[Nick250]

The only reason I even mentioned the pop-up issue here is that it is specific to Audioholics, no where else ever. And it is exactly the same message to the effect "the program you are using may need an activex download to run, media something or other (my words) click here to down load".

Nick

 

[WorldLeader]

http://www.apple.com/getamac

 

[Nick250]

I caved in and downloaded Adobe Media Player which it seems, some of the ads (I guess) check for and complain when its not there. No change other than the pop ups have gone away.

Nick

 

[Sheep]

http://www.apple.com/getamac

Buhahahahahahaha!

Mac: No one makes viruses for Mac's
PC: Yeah, but who would want to F*ck up a Mac anymore then it already is?

Enjoy your rainbow loading wheel of gay fun.

SheepStar

 

[Audioholics]

We're really not doing anything weird, so it would have to be either Flash or just plain JavaScript stuff...

 

[Nick250]

We're really not doing anything weird, so it would have to be either Flash or just plain JavaScript stuff...

As I mentioned above, since I downloaded Adobe Media player all is well. Go figure.

Nick

BTW, on the modest hi-jack, my favorite apple is golden delicious. Seriously, we have 30 PCs in the office and one Mac to keep the guy who does some advertising stuff for us happy. He told us we did not need any virus protection because no one creates virus(s) for Macs. Seems to me there is a vast untapped play ground for the virus writers.

 

[abboudc]

As I mentioned above, since I downloaded Adobe Media player all is well. Go figure.

Nick

BTW, on the modest hi-jack, my favorite apple is golden delicious. Seriously, we have 30 PCs in the office and one Mac to keep the guy who does some advertising stuff for us happy. He told us we did not need any virus protection because no one creates virus(s) for Macs. Seems to me there is a vast untapped play ground for the virus writers.

There is Mac anti-virus software. A lot of companies with Macs use Sophos.

I would have probably agreed with Sheep 5 years ago. Not anymore...the fact i don't have to run Ad Aware on my system every 5 minutes is worth that beach ball spinning.

 

[Sheep]

There is Mac anti-virus software. A lot of companies with Macs use Sophos.

I would have probably agreed with Sheep 5 years ago. Not anymore...the fact i don't have to run Ad Aware on my system every 5 minutes is worth that beach ball spinning.

Did it ever occur that the USER is the reason computers fail? I run adaware once every couple days, and I get 2 or 3 hits. Thats it.

It numbers spiked when I was at a LAN party a few days ago, but that was from his router/modem setup. At home everything runs fine.

SheepStar

 

[abboudc]

Did it ever occur that the USER is the reason computers fail? I run adaware once every couple days, and I get 2 or 3 hits. Thats it.

It numbers spiked when I was at a LAN party a few days ago, but that was from his router/modem setup. At home everything runs fine.

SheepStar

If you had to clean the laser on your CD player every two or three days because it was hypersensitive and wouldn't function properly otherwise, you wouldn't see that as a CD player problem?

 

[Sheep]

If you had to clean the laser on your CD player every two or three days because it was hypersensitive and wouldn't function properly otherwise, you wouldn't see that as a CD player problem?

A computer doesn't put viruses and spyware on itself. Period.

SheepStar

 

[Buckeyefan 1]

Buhahahahahahaha!

Mac: No one makes viruses for Mac's
PC: Yeah, but who would want to F*ck up a Mac anymore then it already is?

Enjoy your rainbow loading wheel of gay fun.

SheepStar

Ouch - a little gay bashing, eh?

You must admit, the 4 way videochat is killer.

http://www.apple.com/getamac/videochat.html

 

[Sheep]

Ouch - a little gay bashing, eh?

You must admit, the 4 way videochat is killer.

http://www.apple.com/getamac/videochat.html

Actually, everything I said in that post was quoted from somewhere else.

SheepStar

 

[DrunkenWolf]

If you had to clean the laser on your CD player every two or three days because it was hypersensitive and wouldn't function properly otherwise, you wouldn't see that as a CD player problem?

Not if the CDs I put in were covered with peanut butter. That's what I get for letting my kids play with my CDs. A lot of websites are covered with peanut butter.

Macs have less of all kinds of software, not just computer viruses and spyware. Now that Apple has switched to Intel and people can dual boot maybe Apple's market share will go up. You better pray that it doesn't-because if it does you'll start seeing more applications written for Mac; including spyware and viruses.