Internet booster spam

Montcalm · Post by **Montcalm** » 2003-10-20 10:54pm

Did anyone here ever had this pop-up on their PC?

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2003-10-20 10:58pm

No, because I use Mozilla.

El Moose Monstero · Post by **El Moose Monstero** » 2003-10-20 11:01pm

Yep, as all popups are, it's annoying as hell...

Montcalm · Post by **Montcalm** » 2003-10-20 11:08pm

DPDarkPrimus wrote:No, because I use Mozilla.

Wich Mozilla is the best to prevent this?

Hamel · Post by **Hamel** » 2003-10-20 11:11pm

I'm using Firebird and I havn't seen an ad popup in who knows how long.

Montcalm · Post by **Montcalm** » 2003-10-20 11:51pm

Finished downloading Mozilla Firebird,now i will do a drive test to see how it goes.

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2003-10-21 05:47am

Montcalm wrote:Finished downloading Mozilla Firebird,now i will do a drive test to see how it goes.

Good job!

Be lucky that stupid internet booster snakeoil crap didn't install automagically. Hit www.safer-networking.org and get SpybotSD anyway...

Montcalm · Post by **Montcalm** » 2003-10-21 08:29am

Einhander Sn0m4n wrote:
Montcalm wrote:Finished downloading Mozilla Firebird,now i will do a drive test to see how it goes.
Good job!

Be lucky that stupid internet booster snakeoil crap didn't install automagically. Hit www.safer-networking.org and get SpybotSD anyway...

I already have Spybot in my PC.

Alleluja i`ve seen the light Mozilla is GREAT,i visited the comic site posted in my sig and the damn pop-up that came every time with IE was blocked,WOOHOO.

Mozilla rocks.

Darth-Garfield · Post by **Darth-Garfield** » 2003-10-21 08:43am

The google toolbar plugin for internet explorer is also very nice to block popups.

Montcalm · Post by **Montcalm** » 2003-10-21 10:40am

Is there any plugins for Mozilla to help me play some games on Yahoo? like MahJong or BookWorm.

Slartibartfast · Post by **Slartibartfast** » 2003-10-21 05:13pm

Whaddayamean plugins for Yahoo? Do you mean like Flash, Shockwave or Java? Well, you can always go to the page with the game, click on the "plugin required" or whatever icon, and it will take you to the Netscape site to download the appropriate plugin. If you know it's java, just go to java.sun.com and get the latest runtime.

Vertigo1 · Post by **Vertigo1** » 2003-10-21 05:50pm

Slartibartfast wrote:Whaddayamean plugins for Yahoo? Do you mean like Flash, Shockwave or Java? Well, you can always go to the page with the game, click on the "plugin required" or whatever icon, and it will take you to the Netscape site to download the appropriate plugin. If you know it's java, just go to java.sun.com and get the latest runtime.

Or just download the full installers from Macromedia's site. Mozilla comes with Java IIRC.

Slartibartfast · Post by **Slartibartfast** » 2003-10-21 06:34pm

Vertigo1 wrote:Or just download the full installers from Macromedia's site.

Well, actually the Netscape plugin search simply redirects you to those.

Mozilla comes with Java IIRC.

I think not.

Vertigo1 · Post by **Vertigo1** » 2003-10-22 04:33pm

Slartibartfast wrote:
Mozilla comes with Java IIRC.
I think not.

If you look in the Mozilla directory in your Program Files dir, you'll notice that it comes with the required DLLS to make Java work. Before 1.0 you had to move them manually.

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2003-10-22 05:15pm

Mozilla requires that you install Sun's J2SE first.