Okay, this is driving me to the point of insanity. On my Win98 box I get a popup or a flash overlay ad every time I click a hypertext link, all pages. The only thing I can figure is some script installed something. I've run ad-aware (updated) and it isn't pulling up anything. I've trolled through my registry where I think something might be hidden. I can't find anything unusual.
It happens with Mozilla too, except I don't get the flash ads with Mozilla. Sometimes I get a page with an ad, then it forwards to the page I want. The strange thing is the URL displayed shows the page I'm going to. This is annoying me since every ad that pops up has sound, and I'm usually listening to mp3s.
I haven't installed any software or updates. I can't even remotely think of any correlation between this and anything else.
If I go to my Win2K or Linux box I don't get any of this, so therefore it is something on this machine.
Has anyone else run across this yet?
I don't get it, advertisers think they are accomplishing something by pissing me off?
It happens with Mozilla too, except I don't get the flash ads with Mozilla. Sometimes I get a page with an ad, then it forwards to the page I want. The strange thing is the URL displayed shows the page I'm going to. This is annoying me since every ad that pops up has sound, and I'm usually listening to mp3s.
I haven't installed any software or updates. I can't even remotely think of any correlation between this and anything else.
If I go to my Win2K or Linux box I don't get any of this, so therefore it is something on this machine.
Has anyone else run across this yet?
I don't get it, advertisers think they are accomplishing something by pissing me off?